Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million out of their teams because they "get raw material, exploitation, and labor at slight cost. The schedule makers are planning five years ahead, signing contracts for attractive intersectional games, based no longer on natural rivalry or academic interest as has been the norm, but upon filling the stadium. Alumni, considering themselves stockholders, help to build the stadia, divert promising prep-school material to their particular plants, and ask only the dividends of victory over which they may gloat...
...York that a fighter who is champion in his class must renounce his title before trying for the championship in a heavier class. Because of this rule Thomas Loughran was no longer light-heavyweight champion of the world when he climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium to fight Jack Sharkey (Josef Cukoschary) of Boston. In the third round Sharkey ran out of his corner and forced Loughran against the ropes and hit him high on the jaw. Loughran sat down. Five seconds later he got up and began to walk along the side of the ring, holding onto...
...spite of the 48 to 0 victory, which they ran up against Bates, the performance of the Harvard football forces in the Stadium Saturday was unimpressive. The Crimson scored easily, but its ragged play prevented it from piling up an even greater total against the crippled Maine eleven...
Huguley showed up well in the role of interferer, as did Potter. In fact, the interference by both forwards and backs was superior to any seen in the Stadium at such an early stage. The way for Gilligan's fifty-yard romp to the initial score was opened by good blocking and clearing...
...rumor which was being circuited by a famous baseball betting ring around the Stadium after Saturday's game to the effect the Dr. Huey, CRIMSON prognosticator, had been kidnapped, is entirely unfounded. The oriental sage was discovered in the statement of a Mt. Auburn St. laundry establishment after an anxious night on the part of the various search parties which were immediately formed when the rumor commenced its rapid spread Saturday evening. the doctor's condition was excellent and he seemed inclined to talk about the impending World's Series which starts in Chicago tomorrow. He intimated that...