re: Stadiums through the years..

LSU's Tiger Stadium in the early 30's:



1938:



40's



In the 50's:



Now:

Vaught Hemingway Stadium

1950s:


Late 90s to Early 2000/2001


Present:

Herty Field on North Campus (behind the Chapel) where football and baseball were first played before Sanford was constructed in 1928:


Sanford before the concrete ground level was constructed using prison labor in 1928:


After completion in 1929:




1950's:




1970's




1980 (before the East endzone was double decked and the railroad track crowd robbed of their view):




1980's (East endzone double decked):


1990's (west endzone bowled in):


2000's (South side skyboxes expanded, third deck added to North side):


and, for comparison:

Has the left deck always been bigger than the right?

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tylerdurden24

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Good stuff

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You have to remember that Tuscaloosa was not the primary facility until the late 70s and early 80s, and 2-3 games were still played in Birmingham until the 1990s. And there was still at least one in Birmingham until 2003.

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Tuscaloosa wasn't the primary facility until 1998. Even then we were still playing games at Legion Field.

Throughout the 70s and 80s, the most we ever played at BDS was 4 games in a season, with 3 being about the mean average all the way up to 1993.

We played only 2 games in Tuscaloosa in 1985 and didn't even play a game there at all in 1987.

In 1993 and 1994 we played 4 games at BDS before going to 5 in 1995. We went back down to just playing 3 games at BDS in 1996 before playing 4 games there again in 1997 and 1998.

We played 5 games in T-Town in 1999, dropped back to 4 in 2000, before starting to play full time in BDS with just 1 or 2 games in Birmingham in 2001. In 2004, all home games began to be played in BDS.

BDS in 1940.



First deck.



Second deck.




North endzone expansion.



Final addition.



Finished product.

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Tuscaloosa wasn't the primary facility until 1998. Even then we were still playing games at Legion Field.

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Primary would mean more than half the games being played in one place. Prior to the 70s, games were still being played in Birmingham, Mobile, and even Montgomery.

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We played only 2 games in Tuscaloosa in 1985 and didn't even play a game there at all in 1987.

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There was a stadium expansion in 1987.

Bama football was first played on the Quad


1929 George Huchenson Denny Stadium


1950 Denny Stadium 25,000 capacity


1966 60,000 capacity


1988, 70,123 capacity


1998, 83,818 capacity


2006, 92,138 capacity


2010, 101,821 capacity


THE FACTS

Year Opened: 1929
First Game: October 5, 1929 vs. Mississippi
Official Capacity: 101,821
Largest Crowd: 101,821 (three times - most recent: vs. Florida, Oct. 2, 2010)
Surface: Grass
BDS Record: 209-49-3 (.812)*
Win Streak: 57 (Oct. 26, 1963 to Nov. 13, 1982)

This is a badass thread.