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...beyond the limits of the talent or imagination of George Plimpton, the world's consummate amateur... Consider what he has done. He has sparred three bloody rounds (his blood) with Archie Moore, then light-heavyweight champion of the world. He has pitched to major-league baseball stars in Yankee Stadium; he has shanked and hooked his way over golf links... and lost to Pancho Gonzales on the tennis court. He has fumbled handoffs as a training-camp quarterback for the Detroit Lions and missed baskets while working out as a forward for the Boston Celtics... He toured with...
...same day that the University indicated that it is considering building a bubble over Harvard Stadium (see story, page A-1), historians and Harvard boosters celebrated the horseshoe amphitheater’s 100th birthday at a panel discussion Friday...
Participants tracked the importance of the stadium throughout the century, describing the evolution of football, Ivy League sports and athletics at Harvard...
Alumni support allowed the construction of the stadium, which then Harvard President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, had called “a useless expenditure,” Smith said...
Built in 1903, Harvard Stadium was the first steel-reinforced, concrete collegiate stadium in the world...