Word: haas
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...plague many of them how will melt away. High university officials at Harvard, however, are resigned to athletic deficits and making them up through other University funds. Nine of the 15 colleges have already absorbed their athletic departments into the overall budget plan of the institution. Hero, indeed, the HAA is silently being absorbed into the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...still feels it has a "quite satisfactory" athletic program. While football is missed to some extent, the university is "happy to be relived of the headaches of present big-time football." Chicago's total operating budget for athletics is $135,000, $11,294 more than the deficit which the HAA took on its $884,180 budget in the fiscal year...
...Soldiers Field, some of the strongest and most determined defense has been seen after the final horn ending the football game. At first, it is defense by authority (see below) and this is often enough to turn away the sodden hordes of invaders from at least one of the HAA's goalposts...
...HAA, as everyone knows, faces some nasty problems. How long will the Band, the pennants, pretty girls, the airplanes, lure students into Soldiers Field Saturday afternoons? Will it have to lower the admission price, or start slipping some of it to players! Both solutions are distasteful. But, some say, there is one other way out, if the HAA will take it: de-emphasis of the football games, emphasis of the goal-post riots...
Goal-post rallies plus extended Band concerts could make the strongest bill the HAA has had in years. The game could be run off, say, about noon, so the field would be clear when the gates opened. The cheerleaders would have room to tumble. The Band would play to a full house again. As the goal-posts wavered, up and down, yardcops and men with dates could sit back and watch a cast of thousands. The HAA would be back in business...