Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the river, in Brooklyn, the Dodgers hopefully sold out all the reserved seats in Ebbets Field for the World Series, but had to postpone celebrating so long as the St. Louis Cardinals had a slim mathematical chance of tying them. At Ebbets Field, as in Yankee Stadium, the spotlight had to seek out the manager. Baseball's winning managers, 1947 style, were a long way from the loudmouth, whoop & holler style of Leo (The Lip) Durocher...
...present system, holders of coupon books who want more than one seat can exchange their game coupon for a receipt card and make application with cash for two seats in their class' section. They may apply for more than two together but the location will be elsewhere in the Stadium...
Perhaps the most significant chapter of the football weekend for home fans was written while they were celebrating victory. Saturday night Harlow and company watched Boston University rise from the unheralded ranks of college football to assume a position as strong contender in the stadium five days hence...
Like the 1936 squad, the 1947 team takes the field this afternoon a sophomore Harlow outfit. While the coach was in the Navy, Stadium performances approached the low established in the early thirties, and on his return he had to assemble a completely new gridiron machine. But, his first postwar team achieved much more in the way of a notable record than did his initial squad in 1935. It was the same old Harlow pattern-merely encouraged a bit thanks to some of the best material seen along the Charles in a decade-and if the trend continues through...
...fingers will be crossed any tighter than those of the Crimson's headtrainer Jimmy Cox today in the Stadium when the whistle blows for the season's opening kickoff. Like the thousands of other first-gamers, Cox will probably be anxious to see how the much-balleyhooed Harvard backfield performs in its 1947 debut. But his primary concern will center around those men who don't score the touchdowns, the ones who may be lying on the ground upfield in the wake of the play. And any time a red-shirted player hits the turf and stays there, the Varsity...