Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wind whistled through Splinter Stadium yesterday afternoon and the few hardy fans fled to their heated cars, but Springfield College right-hander Jeff Williamson kept the hear on the Harvard baseball team with a wicked hook and led the Maroon...
...varsity baseball team plays Springfield College at 3 p.m. today at Splinter Stadium. The golf team meets Boston College and Holy. Cross, also this afternoon...
...Speed is an essential factor in pro ball,' he told us and asked us to go down to Harvard Stadium at 9 a.m. the next morning so he could time us. Well, I was a little late and by the time I arrived Steve and Dave had already been clocked once for 40 yards. I wasn't quite awake yet and I wanted to make sure I was loose, so I started these exercises we use in track. Dave told me later that the scout, watching impatiently half-way down the field, quietly remarked. 'This kid's a real showboat...
...repair their fortunes both on the field, where they have turned into the patsies of the N.F.L.'s Eastern Conference, and at the gate, where they have been losing the battle to the A.F.L. All last fall, longtime Giant fans could be found across town at Shea Stadium, watching the New York Jets and their $485,000 quarterback, Joe Namath-whose talent for picking apart pass defenses made him a celebrity on the Manhattan nightclub circuit as well as on the field. Stealing the spotlight from Namath is a tall order for a Methodist minister...
...butcher, and has fattened as "the convention capital of the U.S." As a centrally located air, rail, and highway hub, it is perhaps the most convenient of U.S. cities. It has fleshpots and fun spots. For expositions it has the Navy Pier, Soldier Field, the International Amphitheater, and Chicago Stadium. In 1960, Chicago outdid itself by building McCormick Place, an edifice alongside Lake Michigan that ran the size of six football fields, with 486,000 square feet of space on three levels. It soon became the site of the U.S.'s biggest trade shows. McCormick Place cost Chicago...