Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Wise Hobson, 46, tall, affable Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio, bustled about Nippert Stadium of the University of Cincinnati one day last week, greeted 140 fellow-bishops, as they arrived by the dozen, with "You're on the home team, Bishop." and "You're on the visiting team today." For the procession of 1,000 bishops, clergy and laymen which was to open the 52nd triennial General Convention of the Church, bishops were to robe themselves in home and visiting team dressing rooms according to whether they had held office for ten years, or longer...
...hood in a private room along with the Church's Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry, Bishop Philip Cook of Delaware, Bishop Joseph Marshall Francis of Indiana, Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California. All the bishops looked and felt hot, for the day was unseasonably muggy. In Nippert Stadium to watch the procession to the great altar were but 10,000 people, half the number for whom host Bishop Hobson's committee had provided transportation...
Yesterday afternoon the team ran through signals in the Municipal Stadium that showed they had weathered the trip well. In this practice Torbert MacDonald was shifted to wingback from tailback. This change was made in order to get full advantage of Macdonald's punting ability in case he has to go to spell Allen, whose leg injury has been kicking up and who may not see very much action...
...stadium was filled to capacity with roaring, cheering, excited masses of humanity. Two teams, representing middle-western colleges, were battling it out on the well-marked expensive grid-iron below. It was the annual classic event between two so-called Universities, although neither University had ever distinguished itself for anything but an extraordinary capacity to turn out all-American football players...
Though of course they may have just been out to see the Harvard Stadium or spending the night in the open air, more sinister motives were generally held to have caused three students to be prowling around Soldiers Field last night...