Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That President Harold W. Dodds' edict two weeks ago on drinking in the stands was either unnecessary, or has been very carefully observed, or else that Princeton men never throw away the bottle anyway, was revealed yesterday afternoon when the weekly post-game clean-up of the Stadium was completed. Only four bottles were found under the concrete section on the Princeton side, while 216 were found under the Harvard cheering sections and roughly twenty and ten under the Crimson and Princeton parts of the wooden stands respectively...
...nothing to what is was in the good old days--'27 and '28, actually truckloads of bottles and big ones, too, were picked up every Monday. The boys have been easing up since repeal and this fall it's only a couple of sacks," volunteered an old-time stadium hanger...
Purdue football teams' nickname ("Boilermakers") this year has grim associations. Last September, the flame from a locker-room hotwater boiler ignited gasoline spilled by players using it to loosen bandages, burned Purdue Footballers Carl Dahlbeck and Tom McGannon to death. In the Memorial Stadium at Minneapolis last week, the memorial planned by Purdue-a conference championship-was shattered by Minnesota...
Spectators who sat on the Princeton side of the stadium on Saturday said that one of the most exciting features of the afternoon was the perfect frenzy of the Harvard stands which provided a display of spirit not observed here for several years. After seasons of being routed by every first-class college it met on the field, people wondered if, even in the event of unexpected success, Harvard could stand up on the benches and go mad in the best traditions of the football world. Saturday's performance proved that it could...
...Aftermath. Storming jubilantly out of the Stadium as cold grey dusk comes on, warm warm warm with happiness. A tie score and hurrah hurrah for our side. Cocktails in a little apartment on Mass Avenue that looks over roofs and towers to the river. Shouting outside, cheers, crescendoes of happy animal noises. A little fire, just right, in the fireplace, five good friends who are very vary good friends before the cocktails are through...