Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Tennessee dedicated its enlarged football stadium. Among other improvements: a room in which disorderly drunks will be held by the police until the game is over...
...visiting Boston Red Sox treated him with proper respect, crippled or not. Twice he came to bat with runners on base, and a buzz of excitement rippled through Yankee Stadium and down the pitcher's back. Twice he banged in a run. The third time, the crowd let go an angry bellow: the Sox, trying to protect a slim lead, sent him to first base on a pass instead of letting him swing at the ball. Joe scored the run that put the Yankees out in front, anyway...
...Difference. The fans, however, don't think of DiMag as a fielder. They come to see him knock one out of the park. Whether at Yankee Stadium or on the road, a reverent roar greets him as he strides to the plate. Joe tells himself that the pitchers should be more worried than he is, and they usually are. He is a cool, relaxed figure, his bat held high and motionless, as he waits for the ball to zip in from the pitcher's box, 60 ft. away, at something like 91 m.p.h...
...surprisingly enough, Columbia satisfies these expectations. Its football team is "'big-time," as Stadium-goers will see this afternoon. And educationally, Columbia has always been a leader. In recent years, it pioneered the move away from the free elective system and substituted instead a course of study that anticipated much of Harvard's General Education program by about 30 years...
...Little won't say that he expects to win today, but the Columbia coach who sent his charges through a workout in the Stadium yesterday was in a far more buoyant mood than the man who was preparing for a clash with Rutgers a week...