Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title in June for the "last time," for 40% of everything (net receipts, movie, radio and television rights). Jersey Joe, the man he had to beat, was still sparring with the promoters: he wanted at least 25%, had been offered only 20%. Probable scene of the big fight: Yankee Stadium...
Three or four nights a week, he has an odd, recurring dream. He is an athlete in a jampacked, outsized stadium. He takes off for an efficient, unspectacular broad jump. But he suddenly soars past the pit and over the heads of the officials, zooms right on over the stadium wall in a long, majestic arc, and wakes before he lands...
...follows will only keep still for a minute, I'll be able to call a play." Harlow was a great November coach, they say. And they single out a November Saturday in 1937 when Yale arrived in Cambridge boasting Clint Frank and an undefeated season, and left the Stadium on the upside down end of a 13-6 score. They have said more. So much, in fact, that Dick Harlow's career at Harvard has long since been translated from the record into legend...
...Love of Mike, who turned down Harvard?" one alumnus was reported as saying. Biff Glassford, coach of the Wildcats, was quoted as saying that his team had been offered the opening date at the Stadium and that the Athletic Council, a department of the University faculty, "had met and rejected the offer which supposedly carries a 5,000-dollar guarantee...
...Penn State v. Southern Methodist in the Cotton Bowl (2:15 p.m., Mutual); Texas v. Alabama in the Sugar Bowl (2 :30 p.m., ABC); Southern California v. Michigan in the Rose Bowl (4:45 p.m., NBC); the East-West all-star championship game, in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium (4:45 p.m., Mutual...