Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FUTURE was, after all, rather inscrutable, Western Europeans could make the best of the tangible present. Football fever gripped Paris. Fifty thousand jammed into the Colombes Stadium, outside the city, to watch Lille and the Paris Racing Club play to a 3 to 3 tie. "To hell with politics!" shouted French Dramatist Jean de Beer, one of the watchers. "This is the kind of thing we live for." Crowds at the Auteuil race track were not so elegant as before the war (definitely fewer grey toppers), but just as large...
True, the same freezing gusts that cancelled the baseball game swirled down into the Stadium, keeping coat collars and times fairly high up. But the Crimson will have to improve in several events this week if it is to cope with Rhode Island State here Saturday...
When a track team wins by a score of 108 to 32, the meet can amount to little more than a glorified time trial, which is precisely what Saturday's dual meet with Boston College in the Stadium was for the Crimson...
Jaakko Mikkola's sprinters are in for a long afternoon at the Stadium tomorrow against Boston College. They will be watched more carefully, perhaps, than anybody else. The reason is simple...
That's what Coach Mikkola said yesterday afternoon, following a long session on the Stadium cinders. Furthermore, "some hammer thrower will do 170 feet, and if the wind is all right, some javelin thrower will do 200 feet." There are only two men around here who could possibly accomplish this: Sam Felton in the 16-pound hammer and Don Trimble in the javelin...