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To: C19fan

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.


21 posted on 08/14/2019 9:50:04 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

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.


32 posted on 08/14/2019 10:02:47 AM PDT by nd76
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I saw many games in the old Stanford Stadium. One of the Super Bowls was also played there.


34 posted on 08/14/2019 10:06:55 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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