Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judging from the booing of referees in the Stadium Saturday, Crimson spectators now classify a college football game with a professional hockey or baseball contest, where the arbiters are crooks' and the opposing players 'stumblebums,' where you 'pays your money' and your shrieks and imprecations are recognized as a part of the spectacle...
Yesterday Dick Harlow put his squad through the usual pro-game warm-up in the Stadium. Tenseness was evident, but there is not the slightest chance that Harvard will go into today's game thinking they are beaten. Underdog though they certainly are, there is no talk of going for a "moral victory" game...
Coach Blaik had his red-hot Big Green work out in the Stadium shortly after Harvard. There was a little photo snatching, and then the boys retired to the Belmont Country Club for the night. The Crimson team will go to Brae Burn for the evening...
SCENE TWO. All right, young man, we're quite capable of finding our way around this stadium alone. We played here before you were born. Those were the good old days. Back in the days of Horween and Haughton, ch, Ed? We used to smear them all, then. Why, if we had ever dropped three games in a row they'd have run us out of the Gold Coast. But no wonder with guys like us, Ed--we were men. We went through teams, not around and over them. Look at the kids here now. Don't they look young...
SCENE FOUR. The hard leather toe meets the oval pigskin an instant after the whistle blows. Standing on the five-yard line, he watches the course of the ball through the air towards him. Swiftly it rises until it seems to be higher than the rim of the stadium behind it up and up in a graceful are. His eyes glue themselves to this careening brown speck. He remains motionless, staring at it in fascination like one hypnotized. . . . This is a game, old boy; it has started now. Forget that hollow stomach feeling. This is a football...