Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Lamar's Freshman eleven locks horns with a beefy Holy Cross squad this afternoon at the Stadium in the only local football entertainment of the day. Game time...
...contingent leaves South Station for West Point at 8 a.m. this morning, and the team will arrive in time for an afternoon workout in Michie Stadium, that awesome plant in which the Cadets have produced 123 football victories since its construction in 1924. The superstitious can gain some solace from the fact that Harvard took one of the eight games Army has dropped in that time. But Army is particularly ferocious in its own lair, and they are not expected to fold tomorrow...
Football tickets have been the source of undergraduate gripes since Harvard began playing in the Stadium. All-male cheering sections, goal-lne seats for Seniors--these have brought perennial complaints. But in dealing with visiting colleges, the H.A.A. has always offered courtesy, hospitality, and decent seats...
...Army Athletic Association, faced with the problem of providing space in Michie Stadium for several thousand Harvard spectators, has apparently acted in haste and with indiscretion. Several hundred of the best seats in the Crimson sections, seats which should have gone to students, alumni, and former "H" men, were withdrawn by West Point Officials for "non-working press and pre-season commitments." It now appears that these tickets have been sold by the Army box office into channels which brought them to New York speculators for public sale...
...ramrod-stiff line of men that will march to their places in Michie Stadium tomorrow afternoon are worlds apart from their Harvard counterparts. The life each group is trained for, the standards set for each, the philosophy each holds, all are probably as diametrically opposed as two groups of people could get. Whether or not militarism is undemocratic and vicious, or the Regular Army officer is blind and reactionary, the West Point Cadet has the faith of a tradition and a pride born of integrity behind that swagger in his walk...