Michie Stadium - West Point, NY
Posted on 08/14/2019 9:29:27 AM PDT by C19fan
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Authenticator is definitely great.
The old Stanford stadium (before it got downsized and rebuilt in 2005) was wonderful. A single tier staduim in a traditional bowl shape, it was dug out of the earth in 1921 and expanded twice to 85,500 seats. The all time attendance record was in 1935 with 94,000 spectators watching The Stanford-Cal Big Game (Stanford won 13–0). It’s in a spectacular setting on the Stanford campus.
It’s been somewhat ruined with the rebuilding/downsizing, the huge growth of the university and Palo Alto, and the almost complete lack of day games any more. College football is meant to be played outdoors on Saturday afternoons. TV and big money screwed all that up.
They didn’t mention Yale Bowl!
This is just not an authoritative piece.
He said he stopped being a fan of the Dolphins when they left the Orange Bowl and he stopped being a Hurricanes fan when they left the Orange Bowl.
Yes!!! There were stories about the Orange Bowl shaking when U fans were going crazy.
I personally would love to see a game at the Yale Bowl.
It’s pretty much a dead-ringer for old Pitt Stadium.
Badly underutilized. Unless they are playing Harvard
there are rarely more than a few thousand people in the
stands. And the local NIMBY crowd prevents it from being
used for concerts or other events.
In 1969, I watched the Occidental College Tigers play the Cal Tech Beavers at Tournament Park in Pasadena, where the Tournament of Roses game was played before the Rose Bowl was built. It was still a good stadium, and I believe it is still in use today. Oxy beat Cal Tech 45-21, but the fact that the Tigers gave up 21 points to the Beavers, a perennial doormat, was a bad sign. If I remember correctly, that game was Oxy’s sole and only win that season.
Michie Stadium - West Point, NY
I was once at a Florida State neutral site game at the old Gator Bowl in Jacksonville. Now that place really DID rock when the fans got going! FSU fans would start that war chant halfway through the first quarter and never let up.
When ND Stadium was completed in 1930, the university had a 59,000 seat stadium serving a school with about 2,200 students.
Jesus Christ overlooks ND Stadium, and his blessed mother stands atop a golden dome not far away. Satan overlooks Michigan Stadium.
I attended a few games at old Lewis Field. We sat on aluminum benches and I didn’t even think about the stadium. I mean there was a place for everyone to sit and you could see the game.
Now that some old oil guy gave them millions and trillions and billions of dollars, they must have a nice stadium now.
I attended the old Stanford Stadium three times. It was basically a dirt horseshoe with boards placed on top the horseshoe for seats. The toilets there were as disgusting as the rest of the institution. If there were truth in labeling, the school should be known as the University of Atheism at Palo Alto.
Another great stadium is Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, Calif. It is located in a canyon in the Berkeley Hills behind the University of California and from the top, one has a spectacular view of the campus and San Francisco Bay. If you don’t want to buy a ticket, you can hike up to Tightwad Hill, a slope high over the stadium, and watch the game for free.
I saw many games in the old Stanford Stadium. One of the Super Bowls was also played there.
Funny. I loved the place when I visited in 2002 (and my team lost).
ML/NJ
Rose bowl #1. The 63 game was one of the best!!
the outside plaza of Lawrence Hall of Science (great for kids) provides a great view all the way across the bay into San Francisco. It’s up the hill further above the stadium.
Saved season tickets for a boss back in the 70s by attending NY Giant games there for a couple of years. Don’t know what it’s like today, but back then we called it the Yale Hole!
The great thing about Cal Memorial is Hayward fault running right through the stadium slowly separating the stadium into 2 parts.
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