Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time. They played a very fine football game. And it was a riotous Crimson dressing room that elected Jim Feinberg Yale game captain. In contrast the only member of the visiting contingent that seemed to have enjoyed himself at all was the Brown Bear. The mascot gamboled ever the Stadium turf in a much more impressive manner than anyone else who came from Providence that afternoon...
Notre Dame-Army hadn't always been a rivalry that packed Yankee Stadium with violent partisans who had gone to neither school, and paid up to $100 a seat to act as if they were charter alumni. When it first visited West Point in 1913, Notre Dame was an unsung little Indiana college. In those days spectators got in free, Notre Dame got $1,000 guarantee for the trip and cleared $83 profit. In this game the late, great Knute Rockne (an end) and Gus Dorais (a quarterback) put on a great passing show. Until three years ago, Notre...
...ignored Leahy's coachly gloom ("We are not equipped.'We do not have the weapons"), made the Irish an 18-point favorite. They were mainly impressed by Notre Dame's trigger-armed Quarterback Johnny Lujack. But no sooner had the game begun in jampacked Notre Dame stadium than Leahy uncovered another weapon: a Fighting Irish player who was actually Irish. It took Halfback Terry Brennan exactly 21 seconds to take the opening kick-off and scamper 97 yards for a touchdown. That took the spark out of Army, although they fought hard and had carefully memorized Coach...
Coach Lamar started the season with a veritable hall of fame of prep-school football. But it took two victories, two defeats and two months of grueling practices alongside the stadium to build a team from the raw materials...
...keep the best team down, but for three and a half frosty periods yesterday it looked as if that was just what Winthrop House was doing to a sluggish Eliot eleven in the shadow of the Stadium. Then in the dying minutes the undefeated Mastodons exploded for two quick scores to clinch their first inter-House football championship since before...