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As Soldier Field underwent renovation, the Bears spent the 2002 NFL season playing their home games at Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois. On September 29, 2003, the Bears played their first game at the renovated Soldier Field, in which they were defeated by the Green Bay Packers, 38–23. The total funding for the renovation cost ...
In 2002 the Bears selected the University of Illinois Memorial Stadium as the site of home football games during the renovation of Soldier Field (the agreement also included the preseason games of the 2003 season). [20] In the past the Bears also held two preseason games in the stadium in 1974 and 1975 (both against the St. Louis Cardinals).
Harvard Stadium was constructed on 31 acres (13 ha) of land known as Soldiers Field, donated to Harvard University by Henry Lee Higginson in 1890 as a memorial to Harvard men who had died in the Civil War (1861–1865). [8] The structure, similar in shape to the Panathenaic Stadium, was completed in just 4½ months costing $310,000. Much of the ...
Soldier Field finished renovation for the 2003 Chicago Bears season. For the 2003 season, the Bears were able to move back to the newly renovated Soldier Field, and the team also debuted their new mascot Staley Da Bear. [29] Nevertheless, mediocrity continued as the Bears began the season with a 1–4 record by week five.
On November 7, 2000, two months after Brown County voters approved a sales tax to fund Lambeau Field's renovation, a second referendum was presented to the same Brown County voters. This referendum asked whether naming rights to the renovated stadium should be sold in order to retire earlier the 0.5% sales tax created to cover construction costs.
The $690 million Soldier Field renovation, which critics have likened to a flying saucer crash landing atop the original Colosseum-like stadium, stripped the 1924 building of its national historic ...
The smallest stadium is Soldier Field with a capacity of 61,500. In their normal configurations, all of the league's 30 stadiums have a seating capacity of at least 60,000 spectators; of those, a majority (17) have fewer than 70,000 seats, while 8 have between 70,000 and 80,000, and 5 can seat 80,000 or more.
In 1927 Soldier Field hosted the National Interscholastic Championship. Eddie Tolan of Cass Technical High School in Detroit won the 100 and 220-yard dashes, events he would go on to win gold medals and set records for at the 1932 Summer Olympics. [96] [97] [98] In June Soldier Field hosted the 1927 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships. [99]