Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play-off for the national professional football championship; crushing the New York Giants, defending champions, 27-to-0; before a capacity crowd of 32,000, some of whom paid $30 a pair for their seats; at State Fair Grounds, Milwaukee. Held in nearby Milwaukee because Green Bay's Stadium could seat only 23,000, the game's $83,000 gate assured each victorious Packer $704, each Giant...
...capital, they aimed at the big central railroad station, freight yards, post office, and at the west harbor (navy yard, transatlantic piers), but mostly hit apartment houses blocks away, shattered the windows of their own legation. Aiming at the city's water supply, they hit the new Olympic Stadium. They killed scores of women & children, put out the city's lights, pocked the airport and factory section, wrecked the new Technical Institute, but in two days of bombing did not succeed in impairing communications. Thermit incendiary bombs* set the west end of Helsinki ablaze. Other prime targets were...
...years ago promoters of professional football were unable to fill a good-sized stadium, even with Annie Oakleys. Last Sunday 62,000 football fans jampacked Manhattan's Polo Grounds for a championship* game between the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. The crowd was small compared to the 102,000 who watched the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia the day before. But more than 50,000 applications for tickets had been turned down, and speculators had little difficulty in getting $25 a seat from fans eager to see what they considered the best football game of the year...
...Harlan Gustafson of Penn, a towering wingman who seemed to have glue dripping from his fingers in his Stadium appearance, and "Bombshell Bill" Hutchinson of Dartmouth, a resourceful halfback who made life miserable for Harvard ends, were the two unanimous choices...
...South Bend, the Notre Dame-Southern California game determined no championship. Yet 56,000 fans jampacked the Rockne stadium to find out whether undefeated Southern California was really a mighty team or just mightier than a lot of West Coast teams that were playing like chumps this year. They found out. Southern California 20, Notre Dame...