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Fenway Park was nearly packed with an Armistice Day crowd of 30,000 that welcomed back former Boston College and Dartmouth head coach Frank "The Iron Major" Cavanagh, whose Fordham squad faced an undefeated Boston College team led by his protégé, former star quarterback Joe McKenney.
In fact, some writers have even hinted broadly that the attendance at a ball park consists of nothing else but “hoi-polloi,” and that the “laboring class” dominates not only the bleachers but also the choice seats right behind the home-plate.
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Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, was not only one of Harvard’s most influential presidents, but was also an icon in American academics who is widely credited with the creation of modern liberal arts education. But one of his first acts as president had nothing to do with academics, and it was something that he would come to regret. In the mid-19th ...
Work on the structure began in the spring of 1903, and by November—just in time for the Crimson’s game against Dartmouth—a stadium stood at Soldiers Field, the first collegiate athletics stadium in the country. The structure, a horseshoe-shaped stadium featuring Greek columns and modeled after a stadium in Athens, seated 35,000, more when temporary...
Harvard Stadium has always assumed an important position beyond the university and beyond football. Throughout the 20th century, the stadium’s relatively large seating capacity and central location has attracted national and international events. Between 1920 and 1928, the stadium hosted the US Track and Field trials for three consecutive Summer Ol...
Harvard Stadium’s contributions to the community have extended not just beyond the “manly contest” of football, but also beyond the realm of sport itself. In 1968, like many universities across the nation, Harvard began to experience the counter-culture atmosphere that was sweeping the Yard. Donald Chiofaro ’68 was a dual varsity athlete at Harvard...
Over the past century, tradition has outweighed change for Harvard Stadium, but the space has been adapted to meet the technological standards of a modern arena. In 1998, construction commenced on the Murr Center at the open end of the horseshoe, and in 2008, a new digital scoreboard and video board were installed atop the Murr. Between 2006 and 20...
Jul 9, 2020 · The list of iconic stadiums constructed in the 1920s reads like the ultimate college football road trip: the Rose Bowl (1922), Ohio Stadium (1922) Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1923), Nebraska...
Jun 30, 2011 · People attended movie theaters, listened to radios, and flooded stadiums to watch a game of baseball. The rise of popularity of baseball in the 1920’s was known as the Golden Age and was transformed by one player, Babe Ruth.
Jan 5, 2017 · From SABR member Bill Ryczek at The National Pastime Museum on January 5, 2017: Baseball seemed to prosper in alternate decades, and thus it was due for a boom during the 1920s.
Howard University students watching a football game, 1920s by Addison Scurlock. Sort by: Add a Comment. teetime11. • 9 yr. ago. Out of curiosity since I live very close to it, does anyone know if this is the same location as their current football field by the reservoir? 5. Reply. Share. illgetmymanager. • 9 yr. ago. Attractive womeeeen. 8. Reply.
