Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Giants were off and running toward their first National Football League championship in 18 years. Then they stumbled, lost to Washington and Cleveland. When they met the Philadelphia Eagles on the rain-soaked turf of Connie Mack Stadium last week, the Giants had their choice of winning the Eastern Division title for the first time since 1946 or slithering sloppily toward second place. The Giants chose...
Creating 500 more spaces at the Business School lot and behind the Stadium. To facilitate transportation to the lot, from the Yard and Houses, the firm recommended a bus service to run from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. every night. The buses would run on a 15-minute schedule...
...system of 7 points for first place, the score was 622½ to 497.) Melbourne's largest funeral parlor took down its "Welcome to Olympic Visitors" sign, and airline flights were so solidly booked that one desperate spectator tried to get shipped home as freight. In the Olympic stadium, the gas was turned off and the Olympic flame, symbol of sporting competition, flickered out for another four years...
...athletics do indeed "belong to the students," as the University insists, action must be taken on a proposal the Council has returned to committee. This is the resectioning of the stadium to give undergraduates better seats. At present Harvard students can have seats on only the northern side of the fifty-yard line; the southern side, sections 29, 30 and 31, is for former Varsity Club men with season tickets, former lettermen, and players and University officials, respectively...
...dubious section 31, it is well known that few University officials frequent the stadium on Saturday afternoons, and often players do not make use of all the seats available to them. Yet these seats are filled throughout the season. Even the Student Council senses that "these tickets are used by groups other than those listed...