UMBC Stadium is a 4,500 seat stadium on the campus of UMBC in Catonsville, Maryland. The stadium opened in 1976. It is home to the UMBC Retrievers men’s and women’s lacrosse, field hockey, and track and field programs, as well as an alternate venue for soccer. The stadium has also hosted championships for the Northeast Conference in track and field and conference tournaments for the America East Conference in men’s and women’s lacrosse, as well as tryouts for US Lacrosse’s team to compete in the Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships.

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The National Sports Center is a 600 acres (2.4 km²) multi-sport complex located in Blaine, Minnesota that includes a soccer stadium with a track, over 50 youth soccer fields, a golf course, a velodrome, a meeting and convention facility, and an eight-sheet ice rink, the Schwan Super Rink, which is the largest ice facility of its type in the world. It hosted the USA Broomball National Championships in 2007. After efforts led by Blaine Mayor Elwyn Tinklenberg, the National Sports Center opened in 1990 after 1987 legislature created the Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission and appropriated $14.7 million for the construction of the NSC. The facility welcomes over 3.3 million visitors annually, making it the most-visited sports facility in the State of Minnesota

The Herb Brooks Foundation, the foundation created by the legendary hockey coach’s family, is partnering with the National Sports Center to develop the Herb Brooks Center, a state-of-the-art dryland and ice hockey training facility that is part of the Schwan Super Rink.

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The soccer stadium is surrounded by a track and has a large grandstand on one side of the field and a smaller grandstand on the opposite side. The United States women’s national soccer team has played many home matches at the NSC, which has also hosted many United States youth national team games. The largest crowd in NSC history was for a 2001 women’s soccer match between the United States and Canada, when 15,615 fans watched a 1-0 U.S. victory.

The NSC also played host to the Minnesota Thunder of the USL First Division until 2003. On May 12, 2008, the Thunder announced they would be returning to the National Sports Center for their home games. The track around the pitch is being removed, the playing surface is being extended closer to the stands, and additional seating will be added all around the field, increasing the capacity to 12,000, with a possibility of further expansion to 20,000. The move was made for multiple reasons, but most importantly because the United Soccer Leagues is stressing that teams play in soccer-specific stadiums.

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CommunityAmerica Ballpark is a minor league baseball stadium in Kansas City, Kansas, home of the Kansas City T-Bones of the independent Northern League, and beginning between 2008 and 2010, the temporary home of the Kansas City Wizards (Major League Soccer). It is located in the Village West area at 1800 Village West Parkway. Many local area High School teams play at the ballpark and it is also the home of the Kansas City Kansas Community College Blue Devils. It has also been used for concerts and some community events.

The ballpark is named after CommunityAmerica Credit Union, a Kansas City area financial institution, which bought the

The reported dimensions of CommunityAmerica are 300 feet down the left field line (with an 18-foot wall, affectionately known as “the Little Green Monster”), 370 feet to left center, 405 feet to dead center, 390 feet to right center, and 330 down the right field line. Walls are about five feet high, with the exception of the Little Green Monster and the bullpen area in left center.

The walls are about 10 feet high at the bullpens, which are in center field and add a few extra angles and contours to the outfield. The playing and seating areas are completely surrounded by a 25-foot wide concourse.

The park has 4,365 fixed seats, though its capacity (including grass berms, concourse, and center field party area) is usually listed at 5,768.

History

Ground was broken on September 4, 2002, and was completed in just over nine months by Titan Construction, opening June 6, 2003. Baseball had a record paid attendance of 10,345 on June 23, 2007. Major League Soccer attendance, with the new seating configuration, regularly exceeds 8,000, and its record paid attendance was 10,385 on March 29, 2008. The 2006 Northern League All-Star game was held at CommunityAmerica Ballpark on July 18th, with related festivities the day before.

The Kansas City Wizards are playing home games at the stadium while the team’s new stadium is being designed. On March 29, 2008, the Wizards played their first game at the ballpark and defeated D.C. United 2-0 in front of a sell-out crowd.

It was announced on January 28, 2008 that the left field berm would be replaced by bleachers. Additional bleachers were added on the concourse near the left field wall adding approximately 2,172 to the ballpark’s fixed seating capacity, making it 6,537 fixed seats. Another reason for the bleachers was that the T-Bones averaged nearly 2,000 fans over the fixed seating capacity over the last two seasons.

On June 3, 2007 the ballpark was the site of a world record-setting performance of the Deep Purple hit “Smoke on the Water” by 1683 guitarists, in a publicity stunt for KYYS radio.

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George Mason Stadium is a 5,000-seat stadium in Fairfax, Virginia on the campus of George Mason University. It serves as the home to George Mason’s soccer and lacrosse teams.

The stadium hosted the first home game for the Bayhawks as a Washington, D.C.-based franchise on May 12, 2007 with other games placed at Georgetown’s Multi-Sport Field. In 2008, George Mason Stadium will host all but one Bayhawks home game.

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The Mitchel Athletic Complex is part of the Mitchel Field complex, located in Uniondale, New York, in the United States. Mitchel Athletic Complex was built in 1984 and renovated in 1997; it hosted track and field events during the 1998 Goodwill Games.

Mitchel Athletic Complex (also called Mitchel Park and Mitchel Field) is the former home to the Long Island Lizards of Major League Lacrosse. The 2003 Major League Lacrosse All-Star Game was held at Mitchel. It was also home to the New York Power of the former Women’s United Soccer Association. The current seating capacity is 9,969.

One of the hangars of the Complex is the practice facility for the New York Dragons of the Arena Football League. The Dragons play their games at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, on another part of Mitchel Field.

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Yurcak Field is a multi-purpose soccer and lacrosse stadium in Piscataway Township, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1994 and holds 5,000 people. The stadium is officially named “The Soccer/Lacrosse Stadium at Yurcak Field” in honor of Ronald N. Yurcak, a 1965 All-American Rutgers Lacrosse player.

Rutgers University and formerly Major League Lacrosse’s New Jersey Pride hosted their home games at this stadium. It hosted the Division II & III NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship games in 1998, 2001, and 2002.

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The London Olympic Stadium will be the centrepiece of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The stadium will be located at Marshgate Lane in Stratford in the Lower Lea Valley and will have a capacity for the Games of approximately 80,000. Land preparation for the stadium began in mid-2007, with the official constuction start date on 22 May 2008, although piling works for the foundation unofficially began 4 weeks ahead of that date.

Design

The stadium will have a distinctive appearance due to its exterior cladding and roof, which will form a large mural of historical Olympic champions, participating countries’ flags, and sponsors’ logos. The stadium’s design will be revolutionary as it will largely be a temporary structure, which will be reduced from 80,000 to 25,000 seats after the games, leaving what organisers hope will be a sustainable living community stadium.

The stadium design was launched on 7 November 2007, as a “unique 80,000 seat stadium, it will be the centre-piece for the 2012 Games hosting the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and the athletics events, converting down to a 25,000 seat permanent stadium after the Games when it will become a new home for athletics, combined with other sporting, community and educational uses” according to LOCOG.

According to reports from the Sunday Times, the stadium’s track-and-field arena will be excavated out of the soft London clay on the site, around which there will be seating for 25,000. A steel structure will be built up from this “bowl” to accommodate a further 55,000 spectators.

Plastic will be wrapped around its exterior on which artists will set to work on the mural. The plastic wrap will be 20 metres (66 ft) high and encircle the 900-metre (1,000 yd) circumference of the stadium.

There will also be no food outlets inside the 80,000-seat arena, which reduces the need for kitchens and higher levels of fire protection associated with cooking. Instead, architects have planned party concourses outside the stadium inspired by the successful fan zones at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, where spectators gathered to eat and drink and watch the action on big screens.

Sunday Times reports indicate that the roof structure (a cable stayed roof) will cover approximately two thirds of the stadium’s seating, leaving a potential 26,000 spectators exposed to Britain’s variable August weather patterns.

A six-month study conducted by Olympic organisers found that while no roof at all could invalidate any potential world records set at the stadium, a partial roof reduced the chance of winds that can invalidate sprint and jump records from 50% to 5%.

Development Process

On 13 October 2006 LOCOG confirmed that it had selected the Team Stadium consortium (consisting of Sir Robert McAlpine LTD, HOK Sport + Venue + Event and Buro Happold) to start negotiations with, in hope to find the contractor fulfilling the eventual design and build contract of the new Olympic Stadium.

The ODA received international and national interest to prequalify for the design and construction tender but Team Stadium was the only consortium to meet all prequalification criteria. The consortium was also the team who delivered the locally acclaimed new Emirates Stadium, home of Arsenal FC. Team Stadium members have extensive experience in the design and build of sports venues, including the Olympic Stadium for the 2000 Sydney Games.

Completion of the stadium is expected in summer 2011.

Reaction

The stadium design received a mixed response from the media, with reviews ranging from “magnificent” to a “bowl of blancmange”.

The Olympic Stadium design was promoted as example of “sustainable development”, but some architecture critics have questioned both its aesthetic value and suitability as a national icon – especially when compared to Beijing National Stadium. For example, Ellis Woodman (Building Design’s architecture critic) said of the design:

“The principle of it being dismountable is most welcome… it demonstrates an obvious interest in establishing an economy of means and as such is the antithesis of the 2008 Olympic stadium in Beijing. But while that’s an achievement, it’s not an architectural achievement. In design terms what we’re looking at is pretty underwhelming.”

He goes on to criticise the procurement and design processes – stating of the latter that that it should have been subject to an architectural competition.

This view was echoed by Tom Dyckhoff, The Times’s architecture critic, who described the design as “tragically underwhelming” and commented that the “architecture of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics will, in years to come, be seen by historians as a “cunning indicator of the decline of the West and the rise of the East”.

Amanda Baillieu (Building Design magazine) challenges the designer’s claims that the stadium is environmentally sustainable and good value for money. Instead it is asserted that the reality will be the opposite. In particular, she claims that:

– the temporary roof could not be re-used to cover the permanent 25 000 seating area – given the difference in size;
– it is unlikely that the removed seating would be wanted for any other event e.g. the Glasgow Commonwealth games; and
– the costs involved in dismantling the stadium – and surrounding “pods” – has not been factored into the estimated cost.

Legacy

The legacy plan for the stadium will involve its conversion into a 25,000 to 30,000 seat athletics stadium with a sports training, science and medicine centre following the 2012 Paralympics. Media reports however have suggested that several potential tenants were interested in moving to the Olympic Stadium after the games, among them several London football clubs:

– Leyton Orient F.C. The closest club geographically, Leyton Orient announced in November 2007 that they were in negotiations regarding permanent tenancy after the games. This would allow for redevelopment of their existing Matchroom Stadium and provide a regular use for the Olympic venue.

– West Ham United This proposal was advanced further following West Ham’s takeover by an Icelandic consortium, with new Chairman Eggert Magnusson announcing in November 2006 that he would begin discussions with London 2012 and the government about the club eventually moving. In February 2007, West Ham’s request to be allowed to move to the Olympic Stadium was rejected.

– Chelsea F.C. There had also been speculation that Chelsea might move there, due to lack of room for expansion at their current stadium. However, due to the terms of the Chelsea Pitch Owners, the club would have to relinquish the name ‘Chelsea Football Club’ should they ever move from Stamford Bridge.

Despite several rounds of negotiations with potential tenants, LOCOG has elected to adhere to its bid commitment to provide a legacy for athletics at the stadium, with capacity reduced to a more financially viable 25,000.

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In 2005 construction began on an Aquatics Centre at Stratford in East London. It is due to be completed in 2011 by the firm Balfour Beatty. It will be an indoor facility with two 50 metre swimming pools and a 25 metre diving pool, and has been designed by architect Zaha Hadid. It will replace the pools at the Crystal Palace Sports Centre in South London as the British capital’s leading facility for aquatic sports.

The centre will be used for swimming, diving, synchronised swimming and water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics. It will be located in the Olympic Park, close to the Olympic Stadium. During the games it will have a capacity of 20,000, which will be reduced to 3,500 afterwards.

On 1 December 2005 Hadid was instructed to revise her designs after a specification change led to a doubling of the £75 million estimated cost. The revised plans were unveiled on 27 November 2006. Although the same general design has been kept and will still be able to hold 20,000 spectators, the aquatics centre will now be much smaller and will cost much less than previously expected.

On 8 April 2008 it was reported that the center will cost about three times as was originally estimated, totaling about £242m. Cost increases were attributed to construction inflation and VAT increases, and also includes the estimated cost of converting the facility for public use after the Olympics. The capacity of the centre is now estimated to be about 17,500 and will contain two 50-metre swimming pools. The roof is slated to be 11,200 square feet, a reduction from the previously stated 35,000 square feet.

Despite the cost increases, the centre should stay within the total construction budget for the event, which is an estimated £6.09bn.

The preliminary rounds of the water polo will be held at a 5,000 seat pool at the University of East London’s Docklands campus. After the games this will be dismantled and reassembled elsewhere in the UK.

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The London Velopark will be constructed in Leyton in East London in England as one of the ‘Big Five’ permanent Olympic venues.

The funding for the Velopark was confirmed in February 2005 and the project was scheduled to go ahead whether or not London’s bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics was successful.

However as London’s bid for the Games was successful the velodrome will be built with a spectator capacity of 6,000 rather than 1,500 seats that it would otherwise have had. The other facility at the site which will be used for the Olympics is the outdoor BMX racing track, which will also have a spectator capacity of 6,000.

The Velopark will be situated at the northern end of London’s Olympic Park. After the Games it will be extended further northwards, with the legacy road cycling circuit straddling the A12 and extending into the old Eton Manor site, where a mountain biking area will be located.

In addition to the two Olympic venues the London Velopark will feature a 1.6km road racing circuit, a cross-country mountain bike course and an outdoor cycle speedway circuit. However the road racing at the Olympics will take place in Regent’s Park and Hampstead Heath and the surrounding streets, and the mountain biking (originally planned for the Weald Country Park in Essex but scrapped for being insufficiently challenging) will be held outside of London. Cycle speedway is not an Olympic discipline.

The Velopark is scheduled to be completed in 2011 at an estimated cost of £37 million. The velodrome will also be used for the 2012 Paralympics.

On 12 July 2007 the Olympic Delivery Authority announced the selection of the design team for the Velopark, comprising Hopkins Architects, Expedition Engineering, BDSP, and Grant Associates.

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The Hockey Centre will be to the north west of the Olympic Park, next to the International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre and north of the Handball Arena.

The temporary Hockey Centre will have two separate pitches with spectator seating, providing facilities suitable for Hockey during the Olympic Games and Paralympic Five-a-side and Seven-a-side Football.

The search for designers begins early this year, while the site is being cleared and prepared for construction.

Two bus garages on the site are now empty and a third is being vacated in the spring. One of the empty garages is being demolished, starting with removing fixtures and fittings.

While this is happening, the area is home to the North Site Treatment Centre, which is washing around 750 tonnes of soil a day. This will speed up once a second machine is installed and operational by the spring.

Designs are due to be completed by 2009 with construction starting in 2010.

The venue will be finished by 2011, in time for test events to take place before the 2012 Games.

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Joe Walton Stadium is a 3,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. It is home to the Robert Morris University Colonials football team. The facility opened in 2005 and is named for Colonials head football coach Joe Walton. The team formerly played its home games at Moon Area High School’s Moon Stadium.

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Campus Field is a 4,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Fairfield, Connecticut. It is home to the Sacred Heart University Pioneers football team. The facility opened in 1993.

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DeGol Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Loretto, Pennsylvania. It is home to the Saint Francis University Red Flash football team. The facility opened in 2006. It replaced the Pine Bowl that was built in 1979.

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Wagner College Stadium is a 5,00-seat multi-purpose stadium in Staten Island, New York. It is home to the Wagner College Seahawks football team. The facility opened in 1967.

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Kessler Field is a 4,000-seat football and track stadium in West Long Branch, New Jersey. It was built in 1993 and is home to the Monmouth University Hawks.

The first home football game in Monmouth’s history was on September 25, 1993, against Sacred Heart University.

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Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field is a 4,500-seat multi-purpose facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is home to the Duquesne University Dukes football, men’s and women’s soccer, and women’s lacrosse teams. The facility’s seats are erected every fall and taken-down every summer. Every winter, a large bubble is placed on the field for practices and conditioning for the university’s varsity teams. The bubble has been a tenant for Pittsburgh Steelers practices.

The 1993 completion of Rooney Field enabled the Dukes to play football on campus for the first time since 1929. A six-foot excavation transformed what was once a faculty and staff parking lot into the current focus of “the Bluff.” The space limitations inherent to the university’s 48-acre plot required that Rooney Field be one of the few in college football that run east-to-west. Concrete bleachers are set into the excavation on the Academic Walk side of the field, and temporary bleachers are installed on the Bluff Street side to accommodate fans during the football season.

The Beard Press Box, a three-tier structure funded by a contribution from the Eugene Beard family, was completed in the summer of 1995. The field itself is named for Duquesne alumnus and founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Art Rooney.

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Arute Field is a 3,500-seat multi-purpose stadium in New Britain, Connecticut, United States. It is home to the Central Connecticut State University Blue Devils football team. The facility opened in 1969. The facility underwent extensive renovations with the addition of a state of the art grandstand and pressbox in the late 90′s. Arute Field is currently being expanded under an $8 million Outdoor Athletic Facilities renovation project at CCSU. The expansion will add an estimated 4,000 seats to Arute Field.

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Bulldog Stadium is a stadium in Smithfield, Rhode Island. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of Bryant University. The stadium holds 5,700 people and was built in 1999. It has also hosted numerous events for Rhode Island High School State Championships, as well as most state football camps.

The centerpiece of Bryant University’s athletic facilities, Bulldog Stadium was completed in 1999 to coincide with the varsity debut of Bryant football.

With a seating capacity of 5,500, Bulldog Stadium utilizes a design that is usually reserved for larger stadiums, ensuring excellent sight lines and maximum comfort for spectators. A 4,200-seat permanent bleacher comprises the backdrop for the home side of the field, while 1,300 additional seats are available on the visitor’s side. Three hundred seats in the stadium are equipped with backs and arm rests.

The Bulldog locker room is a modern, spacious facility designed to give Bryant players a comfortable and accommodating team room. The stadium also has its own athletic training center, office space and public rest rooms.

The Bulldog Stadium press box contains booths for both home and visiting coaches as well as ample work space for game personnel and visiting media. A number of telephone lines are connected to the press box, allowing members of the media to file stories from the site and track out-of-town scores. The press box also has a fax machine and Internet access available to members of the media.

Bulldog Stadium’s playing surface was laser-graded, and special turf was installed in time for the 1999 varsity football season.

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University Field is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Albany, New York. It is home to the University at Albany Great Danes football team.

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Roos Field is a 8,600-seat multi-purpose stadium in Cheney, Washington. It is home to the Eastern Washington University Eagles football team. The facility opened in 1967.

Roos Field was originally named Woodward Field in honor of former Eagles head football and basketball coach Arthur C. Woodward. It replaced the original Woodward Field, which was located near the present JFK Library.[4] The field was renamed before the start of the 2010 season in honor of Michael Roos, a former football player, and major donor for the Red Turf project.

Roos Field went under a massive renovation in 2004 that upgraded public facilities, the press box, new locker room, and also updated the stadium’s capacity. The suites and media center represent phase two of a three-phase $4.5 million stadium upgrade. Phase one consisted of a $350,000 renovation of the stadium’s entrance and ticket office. Completed in 2002, the project was funded with state dollars. Phase three increased the stadium’s seating capacity from 5,500 to 11,583, and was financed with a combination of public funds and private donations. “Our ability to bring prospective donors and entertain them is important,” says Barnes. “It will create a revenue stream for us over time. It’s also an important piece in the recruiting process.” Scott Barnes says EWU will market the suites to donors, who will pay $30,000 to lease them for five years. The project called for a two-level 6,800-square-foot (630 m2) structure to replace the existing about 800-square-foot (74 m2) press box with the enclosed suites and a new press box on the west side of the stadium. The first floor of the elevated structure contains the donor suites and the second level is for the media and coaches. Each of the donor suites has 12 seats and room for additional people. The suites also have cable television, stereos, and refrigerators.

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Holt Arena is an indoor multi-purpose athletic stadium located on the campus of Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho. It is the home field of the Idaho State Bengals of the Big Sky Conference. Holt Arena sits at an elevation of 4,560 feet (1,390 m) above sea level.

Completed in September 1970 at the north end of the ISU campus, Holt Arena is the oldest enclosed stadium on a college campus in the United States and the second-oldest overall. Only the Houston Astrodome, completed in 1965, predates it.

Holt Arena was conceived by ISU athletic director Milton W. “Dubby” Holt in 1966. Idaho State students voted to appropriate not more than $2.8 million to the project two years later. Holt Arena replaced the outdoor “Spud Bowl” (now Davis Field) as the Bengals’ home football field. The arena was originally named the ASISU Mini Dome, but was renamed in 1988 to honor Holt.

In addition to serving as the home field for the ISU football team, Holt Arena also serves as home for the ISU indoor track and field team and men’s basketball team.

In addition to Bengal athletic teams Holt Arena also hosts Idaho high school football games and other sporting events, rodeos, concerts, and other activities. In addition it was the site of the NCAA basketball tournament (sub-regionals) and the 1977 Big Sky Conference men’s basketball tournament.

After the long anticipated opening of the Mini Dome in 1970, Idaho State true freshman Mike Barnes scored the first regulation points in a basketball game.

Following the success of the Mini Dome several other colleges built enclosed stadiums, including the Kibbie Dome at the University of Idaho in Moscow, in 1975.

Holt Arena is one of two enclosed stadiums currently used in the Big Sky Conference. The Walkup Skydome at Northern Arizona University is the other.

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Washington-Grizzly Stadium is an outdoor football stadium on the campus of the University of Montana on Campus Dr in Missoula, Montana. It is home to the Montana Grizzlies of the Big Sky Conference, a dominant program in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The stadium opened on October 18, 1986 and since then the Griz have racked up an impressive 133-19(.875) record at home. The stadium has a current seating capacity of 23,117. The SprinTurf playing field is 20 feet (6 m) below ground level; it runs in the traditional north-south configuration and sits at an elevation of 3190 feet (972 m) above sea level.

The stadium received its name after Montana construction magnate Dennis Washington donated $1 million to finance the stadium’s construction in 1985. The stadium has been expanded three times since its opening in 1986, most recently in 2003 when 4000 additional seats were added. An upper deck expansion of 2,000 seats will be constructed on the east side of the stadium after the 2007 season.

The original seating capacity in 1986 was 12,500 permanent seats on the sidelines with grass seating behind the end zones, an approximate capacity of 15,000. Permanent seating for the end zones was installed in 1995, bringing the seating capacity to over 19,000.

SprinTurf was installed in 2001, replacing the natural grass. The video screen GrizVision, was installed in 2002. At 26′ × 36′ (8 m × 11 m), it is the largest in a FCS football stadium.

Before Washington-Grizzly Stadium opened, the Grizzlies played off-campus at “new” Dornblaser Field from 1968-86. Before that, Montana played on-campus at “old” Dornblaser Field from 1920-67 (both named for Paul Dornblaser, football captain in 1912). Prior to 1920, Montana played its home games at a field in downtown Missoula near the former Missoulian newspaper building.

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Bobcat Stadium is an outdoor football stadium on the south end of the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. It is home to the Montana State Bobcats of the Big Sky Conference and currently seats 13,500. The football field runs in a NW-SE configuration with the press box along the southwest sideline. The playing field is natural grass and sits at an elevation of 4940 feet (1505 m) above sea level.

The stadium opened in 1973 as Reno H. Sales Stadium and was built at the cost of about $500,000. Reno Sales was a member of the first Bobcat football team in 1897 and was the college’s only graduate in 1898. Later in life he was an engineer and philanthropist. Originally from Salesville (now Gallatin Gateway), he was the chief geologist for Anaconda Copper for 41 years. During his 90 years, Mr. Sales was widely known as “Mr. Bobcat,” and for his generosity and devotion to his alma mater.

Prior to the 1998 season the stadium was renovated for about $12 million and renamed Bobcat Stadium. The facility was designed to accommodate further expansion in the southeast end zone.

The stadium’s Martel Field is named after Bill Martel, the Bozeman contractor who was instrumental in the project’s completion.

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The J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome is a 16,230-seat multi-purpose stadium on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Opened in September 1977, it is the home of the NAU Lumberjacks football and basketball teams of the Big Sky Conference. The Walkup Skydome has hosted five Big Sky Conference men’s basketball tournaments: 1987, 1997, 1998, 2005, and 2006.

It is the second largest clear-span timber dome in the world. It held the world record as the largest timber dome in the world from opening in 1977 until 1998 when the Sydney Showground Exhibition Building was completed for the 2000 Olympics.

The Skydome is named after J. Lawrence Walkup, the president of the university from (1958–79), a period of tremendous growth for the school. The playing field/court for the stadium sits at an elevation of 6880 feet (2097 m) above sea level, second only to Wyoming’s War Memorial Stadium, by 335 feet (102 m). Twenty feet above the field there is a red line with a 7000 on it at the exact point where the building hits 7000 feet elevation.

Besides sporting events, the arena is also used for commencement ceremonies, concerts, and other events such as conventions and trade shows. The arena floor features 97,000 square feet (over 9000 m²) of space.

The Walkup Skydome is also used by the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals during their summer training camp, held at NAU. The Cardinals are able to move inside to conduct practice when the weather is unsuitable outdoors.

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Nottingham Field is a 8,500-seat multi-purpose stadium in Greeley, Colorado. It was built in 1995 and is home to the University of Northern Colorado Bears football team, as well as the Bears track and field programs.

Nottingham field was erected to relieve the aging facilities at Jackson Field and provide the UNC Bears with a modern stage upon which they would launch themselves to two Division II National Football Titles. The Field was erected in 1995 with a capacity of 6,500. The field is named for Vic Nottingham, who spearheaded the effort to raise private funds for the entire $4 million project. Prior to the 2005 season the stadium’s seating capacity was expanded to 8,500 by expanding the east stands. There is another renovation project underway which will build a locker room and fan amenity complex on the east side of the stadium.

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Hornet Stadium is a 21,195 seat football stadium in Sacramento, California. It is located at Sacramento State. It was completed in 1969. It is the home football stadium of the Sacramento State Hornets.

It was the home stadium of the Sacramento Surge of the WLAF and the Sacramento Gold Miners of the Canadian Football League.

The stadium was the site of some historic moments in Canadian Football League history. On July 7, 1993, It was the site of the first Canadian Football League game ever played on American soil. The Calgary Stampeders defeated the Gold Miners 38-36.

A year later, it hosted the first game between US franchises when the Las Vegas Posse defeated the Gold Miners 32-26.

The stadium underwent a $1 million improvement in preparation for the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials in July 2000. Further improvements were made during the spring of 2004, when the stadium hosted the 2004 U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials. The stadium has also hosted the NCAA Track Championships in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Recent additions to Hornet Stadium include a new scoreboard, which is fully functional for both football and track and field, and a new public entrances. Ground was also broken on August 24, 2006 for the Broad Athletic Center, which will be the new fieldhouse at the stadium for both football and the track and field teams at Sacramento State.

The largest crowd ever to witness an event in Hornet Stadium was when the Sacramento Surge defeated the Barcelona Dragons in the World League playoffs on May 30, 1992 in front of 26,445 fans.

The largest Sacramento State crowd came on September 18, 1999, as the Hornets defeated arch-rival UC Davis in the Causeway Classic, 48-27, in front of 20,993 spectators.

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Stewart Stadium is a 17,312-seat multi-purpose stadium in Ogden, Utah. It opened in 1966. It is home to the Weber State University Wildcats football team.

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Golden Lion Stadium is a 16,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It opened in 2000 and is home to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Golden Lions football team.

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Eddie Robinson Stadium is a 19,600-seat multi-purpose stadium in Grambling, Louisiana. It opened in 1983 and is home to the Grambling State University Tigers football team and Grambling High School Kittens football team. The stadium is named in honor of famous Grambling State University head football coach, Eddie Robinson.

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Rice-Totten Field is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Itta Bena, Mississippi, United States. It is home to the Mississippi Valley State University Delta Devils college football team. The stadium is named after former MVSU football players, Willie Totten and Jerry Rice.

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Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium is an outdoor football stadium in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. A state-owned facility, Veterans Memorial Stadium is the home field of the Jackson State University Tigers; it also plays host to the Mississippi High School Activities Association state championship football games every fall and other special events, including several NFL exhibition games.

The stadium hosted an NFL preseason game between the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts on August 26, 2006, in which the Colts won 27-14.

After initially being built in 1941 with stands on both sides of the field, the northwest corner was bowled in 1980 to increase the seating capacity to its current size (about 62,000); until the recent expansion of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Veterans Stadium was the largest sports facility in Mississippi.

Historically, Veterans Memorial Stadium was the site of many important college football games in Mississippi history, as Ole Miss, Mississippi State University and University of Southern Mississippi regularly played in the stadium (while maintaining home fields in Oxford, Starkville and Hattiesburg respectively), most famously in the annual Egg Bowl contests between Ole Miss and Mississippi State until the early 1990s. The University of Southern Mississippi made regular appearances as well, playing both UM and MSU as well as games against such schools as Texas A&M. The stadium continues to host the annual Capital City Classic between Jackson State and Alcorn State University, both of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

The stadium has also been home to numerous concerts, most notable being New Kids on the Block at the height of their fame.

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Blackshear Field is a 6,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Prairie View, Texas, United States. It is home to the Prairie View A&M University Panthers football team. The facility opened in 1960.

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Jack Spinks Stadium is a 22,500-seat multi-purpose stadium in Lorman, Mississippi. It opened in 1992 and is home to the Alcorn State University Braves football team.

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Ace W. Mumford Stadium is a 28,400-seat multi-purpose stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It opened in 1928 and is home to the Southern University Jaguars and Southern Laboratory High School Kittens football teams, as well as the Southern University women’s soccer team. It is named after coach A.W. “Ace” Mumford, the most successful coach in Southern University football history.

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The Cramton Bowl (sometimes Crampton Bowl) is a stadium in Montgomery, Alabama, in the United States. Primarily designed for the playing of American football, it is the home field of the “Hornets” of Alabama State University and frequently used for high school football as well. It probably achieved its greatest fame as the home of the Blue-Gray Football Classic, an annual college football all-star game which was held there each December from 1938 until 2001. Cramton Bowl is named for F.J. Cramton, who donated the land on which the stadium is built.

The Cramton Bowl as currently configured has a seating capacity of 24,500; however, many more fans than that can be accommodated as needed in both the surrounding grounds, some of which slope downward toward the field, and in parts of the stadium from which seats have been removed but the concrete structure which underlay them still remains. In fact, this part of the stadium has often been used informally.

The Cramton Bowl is widely regarded as now being functionally obsolete for major sporting events. It is not the capacity of the Cramton Bowl that makes it obsolete as much as its age and condition and the fact that the seats are predominantly bleachers, not the individual chairback seats that fans of major sporting events have come to expect. In fact, the age and condition of the Cramton Bowl were factors, although not the predominant ones, in the Blue-Gray Game not being held in 2002 and its subsequent relocation in 2003 to Troy, Alabama’s Movie Gallery Stadium, about 50 miles (80 km) from Montgomery. Although it is the intent of the Montgomery Lions Club to continue to stage the game (it was not held in 2004 due to the inability to arrange for a corporate sponsor and the consequent naming rights) and it is generally assumed that they would like it to return it to Montgomery if the Cramton Bowl were to be significantly upgraded or totally replaced, as Montgomery’s minor league baseball park has been, but so far no one has seemed to come forward with a proposal that is both financially and politically feasible.

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Louis Crews Stadium is a 21,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Huntsville, Alabama. It opened in 1996 and is home to the Alabama A&M University Bulldogs football team.

Built in 1996 at a price of $10 Million, Louis Crews Stadium has a current capacity of 21,000, and is the sixth largest stadium in Alabama. The home-side grand stands has a capacity of 14,000 and the visitors side holds 7,000.

The stadium features a two-level pressbox, and nineteen skyboxes that can seat 16 to 50 people. The pressbox has available multi-tiered for up to 30 sportswriters.

Notable games

– First game played in Louis Crews was a 20-17 loss to Clark Atlanta University. This marked the first game played on campus since 1971.

– The first win in the stadium was played in 1996 with points totaling 36-22 over Miles College.

– In 1998, 24,000 fans packed into the stadium to watch the bulldogs defeat SWAC foe Southern University 33-27.

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Alexander Durley Sports Complex is a 5,500-seat multi-purpose stadium in Houston, Texas. It is home to the Texas Southern University Tigers football team. The facility is named after former Tiger head coach, Alexander Durley.

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Mazzella Field is a 2,440-seat multi-purpose stadium in New Rochelle, New York and home to the Iona College Gaels football team. It was opened in 1989. It is also the New York Magic of the W-League. It is the smallest capacity home stadium of any NCAA Division 1 Football team.

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Leonidoff Field is a 3,500-seat multi-purpose stadium in Poughkeepsie, New York. It is home to the Marist College Red Foxes football team. The facility opened in 1972. At the conclusion of the 2006 football season, the existing grandstand was removed to make way for a more modern, updated facility including modern press boxes, luxury suites, home and away locker rooms, an athletic training room as well as a new concession stand. Additionally, the natural turf surface is to be replaced with Field Turfsynthetic surface. The project is scheduled to be completed for the start of the 2007 football season.

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O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium is a stadium in Durham, North Carolina. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the North Carolina Central University. The stadium holds 11,500 people and opened in 1975.

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Ted Wright Stadium is a 7,500-seat multi-purpose stadium in Savannah, Georgia. The facility is located on the campus of Savannah State University and is named in honor of Theodore Wright who served as the Tiger’s head football coach from 1947-1949.

The stadium is primarily used for American football and track and field. It is home to the Savannah State Tigers football and track and field teams, but occasionally hosts games and events by high schools in Chatham County. The facility opened in 1967.

Through an agreement between the Georgia Board of Regents and Chatham County, Georgia, track and field improvements were made at the stadium between 1993 and 1995. A newly constructed 400-meter track and competetive field areas were a part of the “Olympic Legacy” package, a county program designed to provide recreational projects for county resident’s use, and cost the Chatham County residents $1,062,980 in Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) funds.

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Bowman Gray Stadium is a NASCAR sanctioned 1/4-mile asphalt flat oval short track and football stadium located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is one of stock car racing’s most legendary venues, and is referred to as “NASCAR’s longest running weekly race track”. Bowman Gray Stadium is part of the Winston-Salem Sports and Entertainment Complex and is home of the Winston-Salem State University Rams football team. It was also the home of the Wake Forest University football team until Groves Stadium opened in 1968.

The first NASCAR sanctioned event took place on May 18, 1949 and was won by Fonty Flock. The NASCAR Grand National Series (now the NEXTEL Cup) first raced at the track in 1958 and hosted a total of 29 Grand National races through 1971.

Bowman Gray’s weekly racing tradition continues to this day as part of the Whelen All-American Series. Weekly races include the Modified, Sportsman, Street Stock, and Stadium Stock divisions. Bowman Gray is also a part of the Whelen Southern Modified Tour and hosts other special events including classic modified coupes, monster trucks, demolition derbies, chain races, and mini-cup races.

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Estes Stadium is a 8,035-seat multi-purpose stadium in Conway, Arkansas. It is home to the University of Central Arkansas Bears football team. The facility opened in 1939.

In 2007, university President Lu Hardin announced that corporate sponsorship had been secured for the stadium from a local bank. As a result, the formal title of the stadium is First Security Field at Estes Stadium.

The all-time attendance record, 12,620, was set October 27, 2007 vs. Nicholls State.

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Cowboy Stadium is a 17,410-seat multi-purpose stadium in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It is home to the McNeese State University Cowboys football team, and is affectionately referred to as “The Hole”. It is currently being transformed for the 2008 season to artificial turf.

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John L. Guidry Stadium is a 12,800-seat multi-purpose stadium in Thibodaux, Louisiana. It is home to the Nicholls State University Colonels football team.

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Harry Turpin Stadium is a 15,971-seat multi-purpose stadium in Natchitoches, Louisiana. It opened in 1976 and is home to the Northwestern State University Demons football team.

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Bowers Stadium is a 14,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Huntsville, Texas, in the United States. It opened in 1986 and is home to the Sam Houston State University Bearkats football team.

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Strawberry Stadium is a 7,408-seat multi-purpose stadium in Hammond, Louisiana. It is home to the Southeastern Louisiana University Lions football team. The facility opened in 1936.

A renovation was completed prior to the 2007 football season. The expansion included additional seating and a new press box to the west side. In addition, a new “high rise” parking facility was constructed for approximately 500 vehicles.

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Homer Bryce Stadium, located in Nacogdoches, Texas, is the home of SFASU’s Lumberjack football and Ladyjack and Lumberjack track and field events. The stadium includes a walking and running track open to the public. Recent renovations to the area include a sports medicine and academic center addition to the field house that houses the new athletic training program and the installation of a new artificial turf surface provided by a donation from a former Lumberjack football letterman. A state of the art video board with replay screen was scheduled for completion in September, 2006.

Opened in 1973, the stadium comfortably seats 15,000 fans. Using the hill surrounding the playing field ups the capacity to nearly 24,000. Homer Bryce Stadium is also home to many premier high school football playoff matchups and track meets.

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Bobcat Stadium is a 15,218-seat multi-purpose stadium in San Marcos, Texas. It opened in 1981 and is home to the Texas State University Bobcats football team. This stadium was used in the hit NBC show Friday Night Lights for TMU University.

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The Alerus Center is an indoor arena and convention center located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The facility is owned and operated by the city of Grand Forks and opened on February 10, 2001. The arena’s major tenant is the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team. The arena also plays host to many large concerts, sporting events, and trade shows. It can seat more than 21,000 people at one time. The convention center section of the facility includes a 26,000 square foot ballroom and 12 meeting rooms. The convention center is used for conferences, seminars, banquets, parties, and smaller concerts. Directly adjacent to the Alerus Center is a large hotel and waterpark complex called the Canad Inns Destination Center.

The Alerus Center is named after a local financial institution, Alerus Financial, which purchased the building’s naming rights. Prior to opening, the facility had been referred to as the Aurora Events Center.

The Alerus Center has played host to many popular musical acts including Cher, The Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, KISS, Aerosmith, Bette Midler, Cirque du Soleil, and Mötley Crüe. The 2002 Cher Living Proof: The Farewell Tour concert was the largest such event ever held at the arena and, at that time, was the largest audience the entertainer had ever performed in front of.[1] Other non-music events have also been held at the Alerus Center including WWE Smackdown and the 2008 North Dakota Democratic-NPL Convention featuring presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton speaking.

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DakotaDome is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose stadium on Apple St (now known as Ratingen Strasse) in Vermillion, South Dakota. Opened in 1979 for a cost of $7.9 million, it is home to the University of South Dakota Coyotes for numerous athletic events, including football, men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, men’s and woman’s swimming and diving,and track.

The Dakota Dome hosts other events throughout the year, including the South Dakota high school football championships each November. Since the multi-million dollar roof replacement took place in 2001, the DakotaDome has been nicknamed, the “Tin Can”.

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Eccles Coliseum is an 8,500-seat multi-purpose stadium in Cedar City, Utah. It is home to the Southern Utah University Thunderbirds football team. The stadium also hosts the Utah Summer Games opening ceremonies and several events. The facility opened in 1967.

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Alex G. Spanos Stadium is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in San Luis Obispo, California. It is home to the California Polytechnic State University Mustangs football team and soccer teams. The facility opened in 1935. It was renamed Alex G. Spanos Stadium in a ceremony on November 18, 2006. It was named after Alex Spanos, the owner of the San Diego Chargers.

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Aggie Stadium is a 10,743-seat multi-purpose stadium in Davis, California. It opened on April 1, 2007 and is the home to the University of California, Davis Aggie football and women’s lacrosse teams. It replaced Toomey Field.

The stadium was originally scheduled for completion in time for the 2006 football season, but due to construction delays the stadium did not open until 2007.

In the first sporting event held in the new stadium, the UCD women’s lacrosse team beat St. Mary’s 17-5. Aggie sophomore Patrice Clark scored the first goal. The first football game at Aggie Stadium was held on September 1, 2007, against Western Washington. The Aggies lost 21-28.

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Schoellkopf Field is a 25,597-capacity stadium at Cornell University’s Ithaca-campus that opened in 1915 and is used for the Big Red football, sprint football, lacrosse and field hockey teams. It is located just north of Cascadilla Creek on the southern end of the campus, next to Hoy Field and Lynah Rink; Schoellkopf Memorial Hall, adjacent to the stadium, contains the Robison Hall of Fame Room, the hall of fame for Cornell athletics.

Construction of Schoellkopf Field was originally funded by a donation from Willard Straight, who made his contribution in memory of Henry Schoellkopf, a Cornell football player. Schoellkopf’s family made additional contributions toward construction of the stadium.

During May of every year, weather permitting, Schoellkopf is the site where the commencement ceremony for Cornell’s Ithaca campus is held.

It hosted the Division I NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship in 1980 and the Drum Corps International World Championships in 1974.

Improvements

Schoellkopf’s original capacity when it was completed was about 9,000, but it has been expanded and changed many times over the years. In 1924, the newly-completed “Crescent” replaced the original stands on the east side of the field, increasing seating to about 21,500. In 1947, the stadium’s capacity was again increased, this time to its current capacity of 25,597, with permanent steel fixtures to the west of the field.

In 1971, the surface of the field was converted to artificial turf. The field has had its turf replaced by a newer type of turf in 1979, 1988 and, most recently, in 1999. During the summer of 2005, renovations on deteriorating concrete forced the university to close the Crescent, but it reopened in time for the fall football season. The newly renovated Memorial Hall at the north end of the field opened in 2006, containing improved locker rooms and training facilities.Over the summer of 2008, Cornell replaced the current artificial turf with a FieldTurf(tm) pitch.

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Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at the Baker Field Athletics Complex is a stadium located in Manhattan, New York. It is primarily used for American football, lacrosse, and track and field events, and is the home field of the Columbia University Lions. It opened in 1984 and holds 17,100 people. It is part of Columbia’s Baker Field Athletic Complex (not to be confused with the Baker Bowl, formerly located in Philadelphia).

Baker Field is Columbia’s outdoor athletic complex. Previously, all outdoor teams had played on South Field, across 116th street from the Low Memorial Library, the field where Lou Gehrig played for the Lions. (It is now partially covered by the Butler Library.) The athletic complex is located just south of the Spuyten Duyvil, the confluence of the Harlem and Hudson rivers, at the northern tip of Manhattan Island. It was purchased for the university by financier George H. Baker for $700,000 in December of 1921. It was dedicated the following April, but it was not until 1923 that the team began playing there. A 32,000-seat wooden stadium was built on the site in 1928; this was in use until 1982, when it was demolished to make room for Wien Stadium.

Wien was opened on September 22, 1984 with a loss to Harvard. The first home win at the stadium came on October 8, 1988, with a win against Princeton. The 10,500-seat southeast (home side) stands were built first; the 6,500-seat northwest stands were opened two years later. The stadium is named for Lawrence Wien, class of 1925, a former trustee, philanthropist, lawyer and entrepreneur. After a $5 million donation by Robert Kraft, class of 1963, the field was named in his honor on October 13, 2007.

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Memorial Field is a football stadium located in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. It is the home of Dartmouth College’s Big Green football and outdoor track teams. The athletic teams at Dartmouth College compete in the Ivy League.

In 1893, the Alumni Oval was built in the southeast of campus, with wooden stands constructed. In 1923, Memorial Field was built, with permanent stands and a pressbox replacing the original wooden stands. The stadium opened as the College memorial to its students and alumni who served and died in World War I. Permanent stands on the east side of the field were built later, and endzone bleachers have also been used.

Memorial Field underwent renovation during the summer of 2006, including replacing the natural grass field with artificial turf (so the field can be used year-round), installation of a Tartan track, safety improvements, and the construction of a new varsity athletics center that has reduced the East Stands. To make up for the reduction of the East Stands, stands have been placed behind the end zones. The new seating capacity is approximately 13,000.

The stadium is the end-point of a popular Shriners parade every summer (as well as the venue for the New Hampshire vs. Vermont high school all-star football game which follows the parade.)

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Harvard Stadium is a horseshoe-shaped football stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Built in 1903, the stadium seats 30,898. The stadium sat up to 57,166 in the past, as temporary steel stands (completing a straight-sided oval) stood in the north end zone until 1951. Afterwards, there were smaller temporary stands until the building of the Murr Center (which is topped by the new scoreboard) in 1998.

Completed in just four and a half months, the structure cost $310,000. It is the home of the football team of Harvard University, whose all-time record (at the end of the 2005 season) at the stadium is 399-215-34 (.642). The stadium also hosted the Crimson track and field teams until 1984 and was the home of the Boston Patriots during the 1970 season. Soccer matches also took place at the stadium during the 1984 Summer Olympics. It is also the host of music festivals like the Amandla Festival, where Jamaican reggae legend Bob Marley performed a historic concert in 1979. In 2007, the Boston Cannons, a professional lacrosse team for Major League Lacrosse, moved their home site to the stadium. They previously played at Boston University’s Nickerson Field.

Harvard Stadium was the first permanent stadium for American intercollegiate athletics. When colleges were discussing how to make the game of football less bloody Yale’s Walter Camp proposed the field be widened by 40 feet so as to spread out the game and lessen the danger. Harvard Stadium’s permanence, however, ensured that the field would not be widened. Instead, the forward pass was legalized. The stadium was also the first massive reinforced concrete structure in the world. Indeed, many were sure at the time of construction that the stadium would not survive the winter. It has survived over a hundred winters so far. The stadium is also the prototype for such other “horseshoe”-shaped stadiums as Ohio Stadium, San Diego’s Balboa Stadium and Palmer Stadium, Princeton’s former home.

In 2007, Harvard installed lights at Harvard Stadium, and on September 22, 2007, Harvard played its first night game, against Brown University, winning 24-17.

Harvard also recently installed FieldTurf

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Franklin Field is the University of Pennsylvania’s stadium for football, field hockey, lacrosse, sprint football, and track and field (and formerly for soccer). It is also used by Penn students for recreation, and for intramural and club sports, including touch football and cricket, and is the site of Penn’s graduation exercises, weather permitting. It is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the eastern edge of Penn’s campus, across the Schuylkill River from Center City.

Franklin Field opened in 1895 at a cost of $100,000 for the first running of the Penn Relays. Deemed by the NCAA as the oldest stadium still operating for football, it was the site of the nation’s first scoreboard in 1895. The current stadium structure was built in the 1920s after the original wooden bleachers were torn down. The lower tier was erected in 1922 and the second tier was added in 1925, when it became the second and largest two-tiered stadium in the United States. Today, the stadium seats 52,593.

Franklin Field has hosted the annual Penn Relays, the largest track-and-field meet in the U.S., for over 100 years. The Relays were featured in the April 29, 1961, premiere of ABC’s Wide World of Sports. The Army-Navy football game series was held here for many of the years between 1899 and 1935 before moving to the larger Municipal Stadium in South Philadelphia.

The stadium was the site of the speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in which he accepted the 1936 Democratic Party’s nomination for a second term as president.

Franklin Field was also the home of the Philadelphia Eagles from 1958 through 1970. The Eagles hosted the 1960 NFL Championship Game here, defeating the Green Bay Packers, 17-13, in Packers’ coach Vince Lombardi’s only career playoff loss. Also on August 23, 1958, the first Canadian Football League game played on American soil between two Canadian teams was played at Franklin Field, as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeated the Ottawa Rough Riders, 13-7.

Several infamous incidents occurred at the stadium while the Eagles played there. During the halftime show of a December 15, 1968, game against the Minnesota Vikings, some fans booed a young man in a Santa Claus costume who was taken from the stands as the scheduled Santa was snowed in in Wildwood, New Jersey, and pelted him with snowballs. This incident is often referred to by sportscasters in denigrating Philadelphia sports fans as so mean they booed Santa Claus.

On November 23, 1970, announcer Howard Cosell was apparently drunk during a nationally televised broadcast of the Eagles-New York Giants Monday Night Football game. After throwing up on color commentator Don Meredith’s cowboy boots shortly before halftime, Cosell left the stadium and took a taxi back to New York City. Meredith and play-by-play announcer Keith Jackson made little mention of his departure during the second half. Later, denying drunkenness, Cosell claimed that he had been dizzy from running laps around Franklin Field’s track before the game with track star Tommie Smith. Four weeks later, the Eagles played their last game at Franklin Field, defeating the cross-state rival Pittsburgh Steelers, 30-20.

The stadium hosted the Division I NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship in 1973 and 1992 and the NCAA Division I Women’s Lacrosse Championship in May 2007.

Franklin Field was also host to a United States Football League divisional semi-final game on June 30, 1984, between the host Philadelphia Stars and the visiting New Jersey Generals. The Stars defeated the Generals 28-7 behind two touchdowns from RB Kelvin Bryant. A crowd of 19,038 took in the game on a warm, overcast afternoon.
The Stars were forced to play the game at Franklin Field because the Philadelphia Phillies had a game scheduled at Veterans Stadium that weekend. The game featured many NFL stars in Generals RB Herschel Walker, QB Brian Sipe, LB Jim LeClair, SS Gary Barbaro, and G Dave Lapham. The Stars featured Bryant, QB Chuck Fusina, LB Sam Mills, and P Sean Landeta. The game was also broadcast nationally on ABC Sports.

Drum Corps International held its annual Drum and Bugle Corps World Championships at the stadium in 1975 and 1976.

In 1997, the first-ever public concert was held at Franklin Field and featured the Irish band U2 during the first leg of their Pop Mart Tour on June 8.

From the 1990s until 2002, to accommodate the Eagles and the Phillies, whose regular seasons overlapped by a month, Temple University scheduled several of its August and September home football games at Franklin Field, while playing the rest of those seasons at Veterans Stadium. The stadium had also hosted the Owls several times on a sporadic basis for many years, usually when their home field, Temple Stadium, was too small to handle the expected crowds.

In 2004, Franklin Field was home to the first rugby league match between the United States and Australia. The United States led the World Cup-holders Australia for much of the game, but eventually lost 36-24.

The 2000 M. Night Shyamalan-directed movie Unbreakable prominently features Franklin Field as one of the main locations in the film. The film’s main character, played by Bruce Willis, plays a security guard at the stadium.

In the 2006 movie Invincible, Franklin Field served as a stand-in for the demolished Veterans Stadium, images of which were digitally superimposed on some of the football action sequences.

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Princeton University Stadium is a stadium in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the Princeton University Tigers. The stadium opened in 1998 on the site of Princeton’s former stadium, Palmer Stadium, and holds 27,773 people.

Due to the full year and a half needed to tear down Palmer Stadium and build the new field where it has stood ment that Princeton would not have an operational stadium for the 1997 season. Because of this the team was forced to play all of their games on the road.

The stadium has an exterior shell meant to mirror the layout of Palmer Stadium, and the grandstands are four sided, with a second deck added on all sides except the south. The press box and luxury boxes are located above the west side upper deck. In addition to the stadium itself, the building project included building a track to the immediate south of the venue, which shares the stadium’s south end facilities. (Previously, the track was located inside the stadium.)

Recently, FieldTurf was installed replacing the former grass surface at Princeton Stadium. This announcement was made in early 2006, and allowed the football team to complete their spring practice on.

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The Yale Bowl is a football stadium in New Haven, Connecticut on the border of West Haven, about 1-1/2 miles west of Yale’s main campus. Completed in 1914, the stadium seats 64,269 – reduced by renovations from the original capacity of 70,869. It is the home to the Yale University football team (the “Bulldogs” or the “Elis”), and also hosted the New York Giants from 1973–1974 while Yankee Stadium was being renovated and Giants Stadium was under construction.

Ground was broken on the stadium in August of 1913. It was built by excavating the field area and then building up a berm around the perimeter with the excavated earth to create an elliptical bowl. It was the first bowl-shaped stadium in the country, and provided inspiration for the design of such stadiums as the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Rose Bowl, and Michigan Stadium. The current scoreboard (notable for the time clock being arranged vertically instead of horizontally) was added in 1958, and in 1986 the current press box was added. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.

The facility was designed to partially echo the campus’s neogothic design. As such, parts of the façade were treated with acid to imitate the effects of aging, a procedure that has instead required constant upkeep and renovation to prevent deterioration. As of summer, 2005, many of the outside retaining walls and portal entries were deteriorating as a result. However, in the spring and summer of 2006, the bowl underwent a partial renovation, which was finished just in time for the Yale home-opener on Saturday, September 16, 2006.

In the summer of 1980, the “Bowl” hosted an outdoor concert with Eagles, Heart, and The Little River Band. A picture from the show can be seen on the Eagles double live album.

On Friday, October 5, 2001, the closing ceremony of the Yale Tercentennial was held at the Yale Bowl. Guests included Tom Wolfe ’57, William F. Buckley ’50, Sesame Street’s Big Bird, Mike Ucci, Paul Simon ’96, and Garry Trudeau ’70.

The Connecticut Tennis Center, home to the annual ATP/WTA event (the Pilot Pen tournament), is located across Yale Avenue from the stadium.

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Brown Stadium is a football stadium located in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the home of Brown University’s football and outdoor track teams. The athletic teams at Brown University, known as the Bears, compete in the Ivy League.

The stadium opened in 1925, and was originally known as Brown University Field. It is located on Elmgrove Avenue in the city’s East Side. It is approximately 3/4 of a mile from the rest of the athletic facilities and over a mile from the main campus. The stadium consists of the unique trapezoid-shaped southwest stands and a smaller section of concrete bleachers on the northeast side. The stands are on either side of the field and a running track. The press box traverses the entire top of the southwest stands, and the rear of the southwest side includes several ornate “B” logos and the university’s seal, as well as two stone bear’s heads on either end of the stands. The original wooden benches were replaced with aluminum ones in 1978 as part of the football team’s 100th anniversary. The stadium currently has a capacity of 20,000. Brown Stadium also served as the site of an Abercrombie and Fitch photo shoot in 2004.

Brown has had many successful teams since the stadium opened, including the Iron Man team of 1926, when eleven players played the entirety of two games and most of a third; the 1976, 1999, and 2005 Ivy League championship teams; as well as players such as Joe Paterno ’50, head football coach at Penn State, and several former NFL stars such as Don Colo of the Cleveland Browns and Steve Jordan of the Minnesota Vikings.

It hosted the Division I NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship in 1976 and 1985.

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Coughlin-Alumni Stadium is a 16,000-seat stadium in Brookings, South Dakota. It opened in 1962 replacing State Field and is home to the South Dakota State University Jackrabbits football team. The stadium is name in part for Charles Coughlin, who donated towards the construction of the stadium.

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McAndrew Stadium is a 17,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Carbondale, Illinois, USA. It opened in 1938 and was home to the Southern Illinois University Salukis football team. It was replaced by a new stadium in 2010.

Originally built by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression of the mid-1930s, it had a construction cost of $150,000, only seated 5,000 and was hailed as one of the most attractive stadiums in the Midwest.

The first game at the stadium took place on Oct. 1, 1938, a 27-0 loss to Southeast Missouri State. Two weeks later, Southern Illinois University defeated Arkansas State, 6-0, for its first home win in its new stadium.

When William McAndrew, the school’s first head coach, died in 1943, the University named the stadium McAndrew Stadium in his honor.

The most comprehensive renovation to the stadium took place after the 1973 season, when additional seating was erected on both sides.

Southern Illinois has played 328 games at the stadium since it first opened and has a record of 168-154-6.

Among the more memorable games include a 16-13 win over nationally ranked Tulsa on Oct. 28, 1967. In 1983, SIU beat Nevada, 23-7, to advance to the Division I-AA National Championship game.

After a 29-year absence, night football returned to McAndrew Stadium in 2002. The Salukis opened the season with a 78-0 win over Kentucky Wesleyan on August 29, followed by a fireworks show.

Prior to 2002, the last night game at McAndrew was Oct. 20, 1973, when the Salukis hosted Tampa. The lighting system became inoperable the following year.

In 2001, a new AstroPlay turf was installed at a cost of $550,000. With its taller surface, the turf resembles natural grass. It also has a soft, rubber base to provide added cushioning.

In 2003, the University’s Board of Trustees approved a land use plan that will create a new “gateway” to SIU that includes a new football stadium.

The track surrounding the football field is the track that was used at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, GA.

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Hanson Field is a 17,168-seat multi-purpose stadium in Macomb, Illinois, USA. It opened in 1950 and is home to the Western Illinois University Leathernecks football team. The Leathernecks have a record of 205-37-7 since 1950. From 1996 through 2004, Hanson Field was the training camp home of the National Football League’s St. Louis Rams.

Outside the stadium, a statue of former WIU track and field coach and two time Olympic gold medalist Lee Calhoun stands. The field is named after former WIU football coach, Ray Hanson.

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Arnold D. Stambaugh Stadium, usually shortened to just Stambaugh Stadium, is the home of football and soccer teams at Youngstown State University in Ohio, USA. Built in 1982, Stambaugh has seen the Penguins football team rise to become a power in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision football. Stambaugh is also known by fans as the Ice Castle.

When it opened, Stambaugh had one large set of stands on the west side. However, upgrades made prior to the 1997 athletic season brought a new set of bleachers on the east side, on the site of a practice field. In addition, a new press box and increases in luxury suites, as well as a stadium club, which hosts the football team’s weekly press conferences, and is rented out for private events. Currently, the stadium’s capacity is 20,630–making it the largest stadium in the Gateway Conference, and one of the largest stadiums in the NCAA’s Division I FCS.

In addition to hosting football and soccer home games, Stambaugh is also the home of YSU’s athletic offices, football locker rooms and weight rooms, racquetball courts, ROTC offices, and visitor locker rooms.

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UNI-Dome (pronounced “you-knee-dome”) is a multi-purpose stadium on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. It opened in 1976 as the home of the UNI Panthers basketball and football teams. The facility’s capacity for football is 16,324. For basketball, its official capacity is 10,000; however, it has seated as many as 22,000 for that sport for events such as the 1990 Mid-Continent Conference men’s basketball tournament and the 1997 Division I National Wrestling Championships.

It has been the home of the Iowa State High School football championships since 1976 and has hosted junior college football bowl games, wrestling, track and field, softball, concerts and conventions. In 1998, the air-supported roof collapsed in a snowstorm. Since this had occurred on numerous occasions before, it was replaced by a more permanent metal roof. On November 18, 2006, the McLeod Center opened for basketball, volleyball, and wrestling. The UNI-Dome attendance record is 17,074, which was set on October 13, 2007 during a Panthers (ranked 2nd and undefeated) 30 – 24 homecoming victory against Southern Illinois (ranked 7th and also undefeated).

The dome has hosted numerous concerts over the years, including The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Grateful Dead, The Police, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd and Aerosmith.

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The Fargodome is an indoor stadium located in Fargo, North Dakota. It opened in 1992 and holds over 19,000 people for football games and over 25,000 for full arena concerts. It is the home of the North Dakota State University Bison football team. It contains two scoreboards on each endzone, four large video screens (one in each corner), two large electronic message centers below the scoreboards, as well as four stats boards (two centered on each sideline) all of which were installed by Daktronics in 2002.

The stadium also plays host to many large concerts, sporting events, and trade shows. The Fargodome has proven to be an excellent facility for many large performances including those by Bon Jovi, Cher, Garth Brooks, AC/DC, Metallica, Kenny Rogers, Van Halen, Blue Man Group, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, and Kenny Chesney, among others. The Fargodome has also been known to hold events such as the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, NHRA’s Monster Jam, Rib Fest, WWE, and many local, regional, and national events. The Fargodome’s Gate City Bank Theatre is home to theatre, both locally-produced and touring.

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The Plaster Sports Complex is a 16,600-seat multipurpose stadium located in Springfield, Missouri. It is home to the Missouri State University Bears football, women’s field hockey, men’s and women’s soccer, and track and field teams.

The stadium was built in 1941 as SMS Stadium, a Works Progress Administration project at a cost of only $60,000, before World War II broke out. Its original seating capacity was 8,500. In 1970 it was renamed Briggs Stadium, and in 1991 it was renamed the Plaster Sports Complex in honor of Robert W. Plaster, chairman of Evergreen Investments of Lebanon, Missouri. Mr. Plaster donated funds for major renovations of the stadium, including expansion of the stadium to its current capacity, including the addition of an upper deck which seats 8,500, 24 luxury suites holding 10 each, a 40-seat luxury box and a new press box. In addition, a new running track and new artificial turf were installed. The artificial turf was replaced in 2001 with a FieldTurf surface.

In addition to football and track and field, Plaster Stadium is also used for other events, including concerts, graduations and monster truck rallies.

In addition to the main stadium, the Plaster Sports Complex also includes 12 American handball/racquetball courts, including two courts with spectator seating. In addition, the complex features Health and Fitness and Athletics Strength and Conditioning centers on the second level of the stadium.

Between the 2007 and 2008 seasons, Plaster Sports Complex added a new 2 million dollar scoreboard.

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Memorial Stadium currently is the home of Indiana State University football in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. Constructed in 1923-24 by the City of Terre Haute to seat approximately 16,000 people, the facility’s initial primary use was as the home of the Terre Haute Baseball Club, a minor league team in the Three-I League. The distance from home plate to the center field wall was 546 feet.

It now is one of the few Division I-AA football stadiums in the nation with an AstroPlay artificial playing surface, which was installed prior to the 2001 season. In 1967, Indiana State University became the first university in the world to own and operate an outdoor artificial playing surface. The stadium currently seats 12,000. Memorial Stadium also hosts the annual High School football homecomming game between Terre Haute rivals North-South as they play for a memorial bell.

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