Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 17, 2007
Ivy Bubble

Harvard covered their football field with a climate controlled bubble to improve winter practice for the baseball team.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:14 PM | Colleges | TrackBack (0)
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re: the football field at Harvard

Yes, but they ripped up the grass last year at the nation's oldest concrete foundation stadium (1903) and installed astroturf of some kind so it would be multiple use for other sports.

The baseball team has no business practicing in the football stadium. The football stadium is for one thing--Harvard football.

It's harvard's own fault that they joined the Ivy League and turned their back on big time football fifty years ago. Stanford and Duke have shown that you can have a successful Division I program in football and basketball respectively while maintaining high academic standards and still give out scholarships to athletes on campus.

Harvard should be giving out athletic scholarships. The Ivy League is nothing more than a monopoloy agreement between eight schools not to give athletic scholarships to deserving athletes.

Meanwhile, the stadium goes unfilled.

Penn is the same story. Prior to 1954, Penn's stadium was full every saturday and Penn State was a bumpkin team. Now Penn State is a major program and Penn can hardly fill the sides of the lower deck.

Ivy League football is a joke. Let's get some scholarships and get a fully funded Division I program in place at Harvard and at Penn and the heck with the other Ivies.

--art kyriazis, philly

Posted by: art kyriazis at February 22, 2007 06:45 AM
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