Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France. Lank shadows and stocky, the fluttering shadows of dresses, the ridiculous elongated shadows of trousered legs, darted and danced last week all over the reddish scoria of the Roland Garros Stadium courts near Paris. The shadow-casters were most of the ablest tennis amateurs in the world. The French championships in which they were engaged were the first big international matches of the season. Present to display their 1929 form were...
After the dual meet on Saturday at New Haven Coaches Farrell of Harvard and Connors of Yale got together and selected the team which will represent the two colleges in the Oxford-Cambridge meet on July 13 in the Stadium. The work of the respective teams against each other and against their other opponents was taken into account in picking the two entries for each event and several Harvard Freshmen were added to the list as well...
Fifty thousand people sat in New York City's Yankee Stadium, where 50,000 people have sat before and will sit again. The sky was blue, the crowd was happy. It was a Sunday ball game. Suddenly, without warning, clouds appeared, thunder clapped, rain poured down. Straw hats, spring clothes were in danger. The bleacherites arose en masse and rushed for the wire-lined exits. The exits were small, the rushers many. In the right-field bleacher section, called "Ruthville" because George Herman ("Babe") Ruth knocks most of his homeruns there, a young girl and an old man were...
Farrell's Harvard teams have beaten Yale only once in the five years he has been head coach. That was last year when Harvard waded through the Stadium mud to beat the Elis 78 to 57. But one of his other teams lost to Yale by one-third of a point and Harvard, although frequently outmanned, never has been smothered by Yale during the Farrell regime...
While the Seniors are attending the Tree Oration, the Alumni will form for their march to the Stadium where Alan Russell Blackburn Jr. '29 of Auburndale, Long Island, will deliver the Ivy Oration. The Stadium program includes singing by the Glee Club, the presentation of the Class Banner to the Class of 1932, the Singing of "Fair Harvard" and the usual Confetti Battle...