[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bowl" (Football Stadium)

[Bill Mullins]

1903 Boston Globe 14 Nov 9/4

Although the "bowl" of the stadium for the most part is now covered with temporary wooden seats, the company which has been constructing the stadium has placed more than 10 rows of concrete seats on the iron stringers above the number expected.

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1903 Boston Globe 22 Nov 1/7

Big Stone Bowl Full to Its Rim [subhead]

Tier above tier up the sides of the great stone bowl rose the men and women, 37,000 of them, until those close to the rim, which marked the horizon for the spectators, seemed to be hung in their places like pictures upon a wall. [article text]

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1904 Boston Globe 20 Oct 8/4

One side of the field will be sold as reserved seats, while admissions will admit to the seats at the end of the bowl of the stadium.

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