Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who view the H. A. A. as a grasping, inefficient monster. Since 1942 and the decline of Crimson football teams during the war, the Association's principle source of income has been drastically cut in the face of mounting expense. These expenses include travel, salaries, equipment, laundry, stadium and other repairs, and food for hungry athletes...
...work more than a few "big" games into the schedule, and the H.A.A. had the frustrating experience of watching an exceptionally good team materialize form nowhere, only to play before relatively small crowds. The Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale games were held in the smaller of the two available stadiums; the Connecticut, Tufts, Coast Guard, and Rutgers games had little drawing appeal; and it rained the day of the Holy Cross game to cut an anticipated sellout down to a more above average crowd. "That rain cost us $10,000," said Bingham, explaining that he planned to sell most of these...
...early seat application deadlines enable the H.A.A. high command to minimize accurately the stag environs and maximize the more colorful areas of the arena. Taking conscientious account of the swollen enrollment of the University, the inevitability of some lines, and the steam age era design of the Stadium... the new plan works quite well...
...band manager Walter J. Skinner '48, pert little Priscilla Cook might have led the "best in the business" into the stadium this week. As it was, she brushed the teardrops from her eyes last night and asked herself why nobody wanted her. B.U. had started all her troubles when bandsman Warren Freeman decided his cohorts could do without her and offered her to the Jawn Harvards...
...Everybody who marches with our out-fit plays an instrument," Crimson spokesman Skinner replied tersely, leaving Priscilla without a seat in the Stadium at all on Saturday...