Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Harvard was thumping UMass at the Stadium this weekend, four of the other seven Ivy League teams were racking up victories over non-league opponents...
...throw at offending referees. When 60,000 University of Florida loyalists gather for a game, the world's largest beach party is under way, fueled by whisky and Gatorade. At the University of Georgia, wardrobes are planned for the slow stroll to seats behind the fabled hedges. Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, home of Louisiana State University, is a saucer-shaped bowl that amplifies every sound and helps screaming boosters live up to their reputation as football's noisiest fans. At Ole Miss, when the band plays Dixie, massed Confederate flags in the student section wave frenziedly...
...like death to Alabama fans. "I have seen grown men weep in the stands," says Band Director James Ferguson. After the 10-7 defeat by Ole Miss this year, the unbelieving victors chanted, first wonderingly, then exultantly, "We beat 'Bama!" as Tide fans walked silently out of the stadium. In the parking lot, there was time for a consoling drink before the long drive home. Coed Vicki Schneider sobbed uncontrollably for an hour after the game. Says she: "It was the next morning before I could accept the loss and regain my faith in the Tide...
Early in the afternoon of any Saturday when the Harvard football team is playing a home game, a procession of Harvard administrators and secretaries begins to wind its way from 60 Boylston Street across the river to the stadium at Soldiers Field. The Athletic Department staff leaves its enclave by Kirkland House en masse, to watch these contests. These are the administrators who take care of all the bureaucratic details of running a full-scale athletic program, so in a sense the games are the culmination of all their efforts...
...chance you can pry yourself away from the football stadium this fall, a stroll down to the Soldiers Field tennis courts to watch the Radcliffe tennis team play will be well worth...