Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson had delivered the knockout punch early, withstood numerous Big Red efforts at resuscitation and walked off the field with an important 17-7 triumph that sets up a first place battle of unbeaten Ivy leaders next Saturday at the Stadium. Dartmouth will be in town, and that means...
Harvard has lost five straight at The Stadium. They haven't lost on the road since 1974, or before anyone who calls himself an undergraduate was enrolled here. Unless, that is, you're '77-4, '76-3, or something weird like that...
Following that 9-3 loss, the Crimson played twice more at the stadium last fall, and twice more it lost: to Brown three weeks later and then to Yale two weeks after that. And when you throw in the first two home games this season, the 17-0 embarrassment versus UMass and the 38-21 default to Colgate, the home field advantage seems more like a myth...
These kids don't want me to mention the fact that they were looking for the box seat section at Harvard Stadium last Saturday or that they were curious as to why the Harvard Band was wearing dirty laundry on their heads at the game...
This is very simple to explain. As you probably know, Harvard Stadium was the first athletic stadium in this country to be built entirely of reinforced concrete. The ritual of tailgating began in 1903 when Harvard football fans noticed there were no seats in the stadium, only concrete steps. They started arriving at the stadium a half-hour before the kick off and stuffing pillows, blankets, quilts, etc. down the back of their pants so that their "tails" (that's what behinds were called back then) would be protected. The tradition continues to this day mainly because the seats still...