Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bitter memories of 1945's 60-0 slaughter and an eager determination for revenge will dominate the thoughts of the Boston University gridders this afternoon when they line up against Harvard in the Stadium at 2:30 o'clock...
...small, feverish nook in the cellar of the Music Building, the University Band holds its council of war, and there, amidst sousaphones and bandstands, it plots the marching formations and intricate parade tactics that are forever eluding every other band-conscious college. The recent paint smears and Stadium grass burning are merely manifestations of the quest for the Band's know-how, and last week the fall appearance of the Band was desperately scouted to divine the how and why of the merging "W" and "M". The secret still remains...
...reckoned with and Harvard yet to be heard from. Stomping through the halves of games in the days when Red Grange was carried two miles by jubilant admirers, the Band reached its full growth in the 30's when "Wintergreen" and other Leroy Anderson arrangements filled the Stadium when the teams weren't trying. Perfecting its half-time lock step, the Band could soon wind itself through 33 letters in 7 1-2 minutes while simultaneously playing a medley of the visitor's songs. Dormant during the war, the Band reappeared last year doing 128 letters throughout the season...
...Bandsmen proudly explain that "Wintergreen," their most popular number, has more to it than meets the ear and is actually a blending of 2 Harvard, 2 Yale, 1 Dartmouth, and 1 Princeton songs, all mixed in with "Of Thee I Sing" and then wafted up the aisles of the Stadium. The semicircle formation used to offset the alphabetical parade down the field is an original idea and "Wintergreen" when first heard was considered a daring innovation. People weren't sure whether concert-type arrangements should be introduced on a wind-blown field, to compete with earmuffs and razzberries but "Wintergreen...
Pursuing this fall's schedule further, the Dartmouth and Princeton games will be here and the Yale game in New Haven, so that in each case the larger stadium will be used; the Holy Cross game should also be a near sellout; and Bingham predicted a large crowd for the Rutgers game based on the psychological spectator reaction of last year's defeat. "The Dartmouth-Holy Cross 0-0 tie was probably a good thing for us," he added, explaining that if one of these teams slumped off this year the attendance at all its games would fall...