Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That evening the huge Los Angeles Coliseum, 1932 Olympic stadium, was half-filled when Republican State Chairman Earl Warren arose to introduce Nominee Landon, who had not yet appeared. Spotlights picked out a distant gate, a band struck up Oh! Susanna, and into the stadium burst Alf Landon, upright in the back seat of an open car, waving his hat, grimacing under showers of confetti which pelted him as he circled the running track...
...Nominee was being driven away, a liquor bottle crashed against the stadium wall, showered the running board of his car with splinters of glass. "I just couldn't resist the impulse," confessed 16-year-old John Dobbins to police...
While the week's biggest crowd helped defray mortgage interest of $200,000 on its huge stadium, Pitt, beaten fortnight ago by little Duquesne, recovered to give Notre Dame its worst defeat since 1925- 26-to-0. Spearhead of the Pitt attack, and author of one Pitt touchdown was the youngest player on the field, Marshall ("Biggie") Goldberg, stocky sophomore who, next morning, celebrated his 18th birthday by reading that the country's ablest football writers had picked him as a prospect for the 1936 All-America...
Before last week's game with Navy, Princeton alumni found in the envelopes that contained their tickets a polite note signed by President Harold W. Dodds, asking them to refrain from drinking in Palmer Stadium. After the game, 7-to-0 for Princeton on a third-quarter, trick-play touchdown by Ken Sandbach, Princeton's impudent, long-nosed, snooping campus police could find only ten empty whiskey bottles, against 500 after the Rutgers game fortnight before...
After the Varsity closes its open practice, Coach Fritz Crisler will lead his warriors into the Stadium for a final secret session, and than will take the team back to Belmont Country Club...