Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...temporary wooden stands, heretofore erected at the open end of the Harvard stadium for the major games, are to be replaced with permanent steel stands...
...last named alternative has proved to be the most practical, and Mr. Bingham, having secured the consent of President Lowell and the Corporation last week, brought the matter up at the last meeting of the Athletic Committee where the proposal to erect permanent steel stands was unanimously approved...
Work in erecting the new stands will not begin until after the Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale track meet on Soldiers Field in July. It is expected that the steel girders and other materials used in the construction of the stands, will be factory-made and that the putting together of the individual parts will not occupy much time. Should an earlier start be necessary, however, Mr. Bingham feels that it can be undertaken without interfering with the track meet...
Although plans have at last been adopted which call for the erection of permanent steel stands in place of the former wooden bleachers, the Stadium problem still remains unsolved. Only recently, Mr. Bingham explained the rapidly increasing demand for football tickets, which clearly indicated that the enclosed-Stadium as it now stands is no longer large enough; the time, he said, is almost at hand when each alumnus will be offered only one ticket for the Yale contest...
...view of the objections of the Corporation toward Mr. Bingham's suggestion, the construction of permanent steel stands at the open end of the Stadium is the most practical solution of the problem. The preservation of the straightaway track is insured by a tunnel under the stands. These seats are permanent inasmuch as they will remain intact as long as the Stadium itself is in a serviceable state of repair. At the end of that time, however, they may prove further usefulness by accommodating spectators at baseball games. But as long as they remain an integral part of the Stadium...