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re: What did you school's home stadium look like in 1939?
Posted on 9/23/21 at 10:42 am to The Sultan of Swine
Posted on 9/23/21 at 10:42 am to The Sultan of Swine
Picture of USC's Los Angeles Memorial Stadium just a few months before it opened in 1932 for the Summer Olympic Games. It's also built into a valley...
This post was edited on 9/23/21 at 10:44 am
Posted on 9/23/21 at 10:50 am to TheTideMustRoll
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Was Arkansas playing inside a NASCAR track?
We've taken track sports seriously since the 30's.
Posted on 9/23/21 at 10:56 am to The Sultan of Swine
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The Sultan of Swine
This is a good thread.
Posted on 9/23/21 at 11:10 am to JetDawg
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I forgot to mention that our stadium is built into a valley...the lower portion is completely built into hillsides. This is why all the entrances into Sanford lead directly to the top breezeways of the lower decks!
Same with almost everybody Dawg
Posted on 9/23/21 at 11:15 am to BamaRoo
And I'm proud to say I've been to Sewanee's stadium on Monteagle Mountain in Tennessee
Posted on 9/23/21 at 11:42 am to GetCocky11
Yes the original Carolina Stadium was was a WPA or CCC project.
This post was edited on 9/23/21 at 11:45 am
Posted on 9/23/21 at 11:43 am to Harry Rex Vonner
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And I'm proud to say I've been to Sewanee's stadium on Monteagle Mountain in Tennessee
The south's oldest football stadium still in its
original location, since 1891.
The words on the press box, "Yea Sewanee's Right"
are part of an old team chant you can still hear,
"Rip `em up! Tear `em up! Leave `em in a lurch. Down with the heathen. Up with the Church. Yea, Sewanee’s Right!"
1899 Sewanee Team
With just 13 players, the team known as the "Iron Men" had a six-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M, Texas, Tulane, LSU, and Ole Miss. Sportswriter Grantland Rice called the group "the most durable football team I ever saw."[1] The road trip is recalled memorably with the Biblical allusion "...and on the seventh day they rested.
Posted on 9/23/21 at 11:54 am to JetDawg
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Built in 1913, it is the oldest college football stadium in the FBS....
Wasn't Kyle Field built in 1904?
Posted on 9/23/21 at 12:28 pm to The Sultan of Swine
Tennessee (picture #1 from 1938 and #2 from 1940...so somewhere in the middle)
Posted on 9/23/21 at 1:11 pm to BamaRoo
I knew a former Sewanee quarterback named John Shoop, became offensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears, UNC Tarheels, Purdue Boilermakers
good dude
younger brother of Bob Shoop
good dude
younger brother of Bob Shoop
Posted on 9/23/21 at 1:48 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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we were at some Tenn high school state championship "Clinic Bowls" in the mid 90's, held at Vandy, and dozens of people walked to their cars after the games to find out we'd all had tires slit by little punks. Probably 50 or 60 cars/trucks with tires slit. Luckily the little tire slitter bitches only hit one tire per car, so most of us had one spare to get back on the road
I played in the 1994 AAA state championship game at Vandy. Cold and drizzling...sleeted a bit before the game. That astroturf was hard and cold AF that night.
We lost to Murfreesboro Riverdale 14-10. We got called for offensive P.I. after scoring what we thought was the game winning TD with about a 1:40 left.
Bama future standout DB Fernando Bryant was on that Riverdale team.
Posted on 9/23/21 at 1:59 pm to JetDawg
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Excuse me???
Sanford seats 93,000 (would seat 105,000+ if UGA ever decides to fully enclose the West endzone -- they won't -- or bring the 3rd level all the way around to the Suites -- they won't), almost 13,000 MORE than the biggest ACC stadium, Clemson. The ACC doesn't have anything that looks like Sanford or approximating its seating capacity.
Charlottesville baw.
Posted on 9/23/21 at 3:31 pm to UKat
I see they are building Memorial Coliseum in that picture. The Bear would have been coach at the time.
This post was edited on 9/23/21 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 9/23/21 at 3:50 pm to MetroAtlantaGatorFan
Some more of Florida Field:
In the 40's they expanded the west stands
In the 40's they expanded the west stands
This post was edited on 9/23/21 at 3:52 pm
Posted on 9/23/21 at 3:53 pm to lsufball19
Woah. If that's accurate for 1939 that's truly impressive.
Posted on 9/23/21 at 4:02 pm to The Sultan of Swine
I thought that was Vaught Hemmingway current year
Posted on 9/23/21 at 7:11 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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I knew a former Sewanee quarterback named John Shoop, became offensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears, UNC Tarheels, Purdue Boilermakers
good dude
If you don't already know about John Shoop today,
I think you'll find this read interesting.
Shoop was an early NIL advocate---and paid the price.
John Shoop/Player Advocate
Posted on 9/23/21 at 7:14 pm to m2pro
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Woah. If that's accurate for 1939 that's truly impressive.
Yeah it was really big for its time (still is I guess), and it also had lights, which was also not very common back then
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