Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of sports-conscious Detroiters asked the city to build a $14,500,000 stadium with 104,000 seats and a removable roof. Reason: it would provide a handy site for the 1952 Olympic Games if Finland (the host apparent) is unable to hold them" [TIME...
...necessary steps for the preliminary work have already been taken in connection with the preparations for the 1940 Games, so that the Organization Committee has a good start for the 1952 Games. The Helsinki Stadium, together with special stadia for swimming contests, rowing, horseback-riding, wrestling, etc., are already built . . . The Helsinki main Stadium has accommodations for more than 80,000 persons...
This mental bloc, so to speak, reacted in the teams they brought with them to the Stadium. So, what was generally interpreted as Stadiumitis on the part of Brown, was in reality a combined fear and awe-of Harvard, planted in Brown, by the coaches themselves...
...Crimson and Art Valpey today's game poses a dual mission. First, and most important, the mission of snapping back from the nightmarish disaster of Palmer Stadium; and secondly, the mission of continuing to brew the hocus-pocus that has befuddled Brown for so long a time...
These seven men take a dim view of Harvard football. Chief plotter of the group is ED FINN (far left), who passes from the Bruin T. ARNIE GREEN, next in line, is the first of three fullbacks slated for service in the Stadium today...