Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expertness of Holmes' direction and the intricacy of Anderson's arranging became more apparent in the near-perfect acoustic conditions of Symphony Hall than in the buffeting of a Stadium breeze. Beautifully shaded contrasts, a clarinet section which sounded as a single instrument, tremendously impressive weight of tuba and trombone: all these were clearly delineated in the Hall...
Faces familiar to Stadium-goers occupy three other positions on the second-string team picked by the press service's poll of coaches, scouts, officials and sports writers. These are Tom Finical of Princeton and Dale Armstrong of Dartmouth at the two ends, and Brown's Norm Iacuele at a guard position...
...Harvard-Yale Game settled a major championship or demonstrated the best in football. Almost unendingly one hears that these late November meetings are self-sufficient entities--complete whole football seasons synthesized into three hour, red and blue capsules, to be swallowed only in the Yale Bowl or Harvard Stadium. What more can be said? The 75,000 spectators, the sounds and colors, the brandy and Chanel-scented air--all the riotous and mellow components of the Weekend are, above all, tributes to a football game that year after year begins with little, brews for sixty minutes, and produces greatness...
Twelve grinding weeks of practice, and eight full-scale games had enough effect on the 40-odd footballers yesterday afternoon for Coach Dick Harlow to remark, as he trudged in off the flood-lit field beside the Stadium, that his boys "looked more like a football team this afternoon than they had all season...
After dark Dick Harlow moved his men under the Stadium lights for an exceptionally long signal drill. The A team backfield of the Brown game, consisting of Gannon, Kenary, Hal Moffie, and Paul Lazzaro remained intact, and it seems likely that this quartet will start against Yale...