Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...club for $125,000. That year, attendance tripled. The fan-owned Lookouts made a profit of $50,000. The following year Chattanooga won another pennant. But last summer, lured by the intriguing water sports at newly opened TVA Chickamauga Dam, only seven miles outside the city, Chattanoogans deserted Engel Stadium in droves...
Purdue is probably the weakest opponent on Minnesota's schedule. Hence, a Dad's Day crowd of 30,000, huddled in Minnesota's Memorial Stadium last week, were scarcely surprised when Bernie Bierman's titans ran roughshod over Purdue. The bewildered Boilermakers managed to score a touchdown on a series of forward passes, but six points were nowhere near enough. Minnesota, rolling up 327 yards on power plays, plunged over Purdue's goal line four times, kicked two field goals, chalked up their seventh straight...
...Ducky Pond arrived, and Yale was the victor, 13 to 0, Ducky sloshing through some 65 yards of Stadium slime with a Harvard fumble in his arms for the first Eli touchdown in the Stadium since 1907. Another sea battle ensued the next year, with the New Haven navy demonstrating its proficiency by a 19 to 6 score. Apparently whenever Harvard and Yale battles must end deadlocked, the result is scoreless, and 1925 was no exception, the Harvards playing hosts to Yale within their ten yard line for most of the afternoon, but preventing the Blues from scoring...
...Stephenson: Gentlemen, there isn't a fire truck in Cambridge small enough to get through the Stadium gate...
...object to most strenuously is that all week long the H.A.A. announced that the field was under a tarpaulin day and night. It almost looks like somebody tried to fool Brown and take advantage of the powerful Harvard line. Or were you trying to make sure that the Stadium grass had enough water all week...