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Michigan Stadium was designed with footings to allow the stadium's capacity to be expanded beyond 100,000. [13] Fielding Yost envisioned a day where 150,000 seats would be needed. [13] To keep construction costs low at the time, the decision was made to build a smaller stadium than Yost envisioned but to include the footings for future ...
James Gamble Nippert Memorial Stadium [6] is an outdoor stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, located on the campus of University of Cincinnati.Primarily used for American football, it has been home to the Cincinnati Bearcats of the Big 12 Conference in rudimentary form since 1901 and as a permanent concrete stadium since 1915, [1] making it the fourth-oldest playing site and fifth-oldest stadium in ...
The stadium's natural-grass surface has been criticized throughout its history, but Steelers owners have kept the grass after lobbying from players and coaches. The 68,400-seat stadium has sold out for most Steelers home games, a streak that dates to 1972. A collection of Steelers and Panthers memorabilia is in the Great Hall.
Nebraska has sold out 403 consecutive games at Memorial Stadium, an NCAA record for any sport that dates to 1962. NU dominated at Memorial Stadium for much of the sellout streak under Bob Devaney, Tom Osborne, and Frank Solich, including a forty-seven-game home winning streak from 1991 to 1998 that is among the longest in college football history.
Prior to the start of the 1999 football season, construction of a new press box and luxury suites began. The $13.1 million 15-story tower was completed in August 2000, and it contained state-of-the-art facilities for the coaches and media, as well as several executive suites, hundreds of premium club seats and a restaurant.
Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium is an American football stadium in Morgantown, West Virginia, on the campus of West Virginia University. It opened in 1980 and serves as the home field for the West Virginia Mountaineers football team. On the day the stadium opened, at an opening ceremony, John Denver touched down on the field in a ...
The expansion was completed in mid-summer 2010 and held an official capacity of 101,821 making it the fifth largest college football stadium in the country. The new seats were all sold out quickly for the entire 2010 football season. Subsequent expansions included stores and other extra amenities on the bottom of the end zone.
It is primarily used for football, and is the home field of the Michigan State University Spartans. After the addition of luxury boxes and club seating in 2004–2005, the capacity of the stadium grew from 72,027 to 75,005—though it has held more than 80,000 fans—making it the Big Ten's sixth largest stadium. It has been nicknamed "The ...