antique photos of your stadium

[Carson]

Tiger Stadium before Huey Long re-routed half the state budget toward building a huge endzone ERRRR dorms.

[M Club]

from the umich site:

stadium excavation:


press box:


athletic complex:

[Goober McTuber]

Randall Field in 1904. Minnesota 28, Wisconsin 0.

[Goober McTuber]

Evolution of Camp Randall.

1909


1947


1967


1996

[L45B]

The Shoe:

Early Models, 1920


Custom Railroad for Stadium Construction, 1922


Construction, 1922


c. 1935-1943



1980s


Post-2000 Renovations

[MuchoBulls]

Randall Field in 1904. Minnesota 28, Wisconsin 0.

Would suck if you had to lean back there.

Wish I had a better offering than this:

[Carson]

Auburn Stadium 1939:

Renamed Cliff Hare Stadium in 1949:

1968:

Named Jordan Hare Stadium in 1973 (first stadium named for an active coach):

West Deck added in 1980:

East Deck in 1988:

Lately:

[MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan]

The CU website has a pretty cool slideshow where you can see Folsom Field evolve from this...



into this...

[Cicero]

Doak S. Campbell Stadium:

First game in 1950:



1978:



Present:

[Kansas City Kid]

University of Missouri.....the birthplace of Homecoming....1911

[Bizzarofelice]

University of Missouri.....the birthplace of Homecoming....1911

holy crap. the omniturf looks like a ice sheet in that pic.

[L45B]

First game in 1950:

I think I see Bobby on the sideline.

[King Crimson]

University of Missouri.....the birthplace of Homecoming....1911

love the engineering on the goalpost.

just a note about CU's Folsom Field....FF and that part of the CU campus sit on a bluff overlooking Boulder Creek (about a 100 feet elevation drop by the stadium, much more as you head west on campus). there are a set of retaining walls built a long fucking time ago that buttress the hill. it's about the worst kept secret on campus that all the buildings on the edge are sliding a few inches a year towards the creek. you walk by there and the masonry is just crumbling. one of the buildings (Clare Small) houses CU's first pool....when you swim in the pool you can see the plane of the water (horizontal) and the wall of the end of the pool at startling angle. about 8 inches above the water surface at the south end, about 3 inches above the water at the creek/retaining wall north side. so, whilst swimming you are even in the water, the building is sloping visibly from south to north.

cracks in the walls of the building.

here's a slide show of Owen Field, fwiw.

was a nice touch in the latest remodel when they brought back the reflecting pool (pic #7 for the old one). the proposed student union in pic #2, is far out. i'm most certainly at the game from the 1982 pic as a kid.

http://www.soonersports.com/view.gal?id=53255

[Cicero]

First game in 1950:

I think I see Bobby on the sideline.

He would have been 21. He could have been there.

[Cross Traffic]

1971, capacity 14,000