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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 3225167, member: 1526"] At some places they didn't allow the GP's to come down even back in the earlier eras. My dad and I attended the Yale @ Princeton game in Palmer Stadium back in mid-November, 1967. It was one of those typical late fall northeastern weather days. In the first half, it was close to 70 degrees and pretty nice. At halftime a wicked bastard cold front came roaring through central NJ and it started raining with thunder and lightning. Back in those days they didn't stop games for anything so they played the second half in monsoonal, wind driven rains while dodging lightning bolts, with the air temp steadily declining. It was miserable for the players and fans. Yale won the game, and we were so soaked we just left right away. They had clinched the Ivy League champ, so after we were already headed to the car, the Yale cheerleaders, including one George W. Bush, decided to try and take down the GP's at both ends of the field. I think they did get one down and were going after the other one when the Princeton police arrested them all for criminal mischief or something, including our future 43rd POTUS, and threw them all in jail. Princeton took a real dim view of a visiting team coming in and tearing down their GP's. Speaking of Palmer Stadium, it was allowed to fall into disrepair and they tore it down in the 1990's. It was built in 1914. One of the oldest stadiums in the country, cap 45,000. It was a marvel of architecture in its day. It was horrible to see a piece of history like that torn down. Princeton built a completely new stadium to replace it. With all the money Ivy League schools have, you would think they would preserve a beautiful old stadium. Harvard Stadium was built in 1903 and it's still standing and functional. It's expensive, but worth it to preserve history. [/QUOTE]

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