Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrived in Des Moines to be met by a gratifying crowd and a band playing A Do, Do, Dewey Day, written to a Nebraska University tune. That afternoon it rained. The Dewey address, scheduled to be made at the Drake University Stadium (capacity 30,000), had to be moved inside the Drake Field House (capacity 9,500). He spoke to an overflow audience...
Wide-open football has been a relative stranger to the Harvard grid scene. But once the fundamentals of the single-wing are learned, and precision has been acquired, the type of football magic which made Michigan a great drawing card can be expected in the Stadium...
...great flock of pigeons roosted in the Stadium during the summer, and now it is going to take 15 men three days to clean up after them...
Backfield coach Davey Nelson will manage Crimson scouts for the season, although he himself will be in Cambridge to handle the rooftop end of the stadium phone between bench and press box each Saturday...
...oldest groundkeeper on Soldiers Field, who has watched the gradual changes, tells you that if you look closely enough these days at the plaque of Percy Haughton near the Stadium, you'll see a gleam in the eyes...