Pics of former stadia

[Marcus Garvey]

It's Friday, and I'm bored. I found this pic of Columbia University's old Baker Field stadium. It's allegedly from 1944

I'd like to see some pics of old stadia or older pics from before major renovations. For instance, I'd like to see some good pics of Lehigh's Taylor Stadium. You'd be surprisded at the dearth of photos of that place on the web. I'd also like to see some pictures of Harvard Stadium back before the 60's.

Post 'em if you got 'em!

[appfan2008]

old football stadium pics!

that is a great picture

[furman94]

Sirrine Stadium

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~scgreenv/postcards/fuSirrine_Stadium.JPG

http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/GVILLEH/m.images/pressbox13.jpg

http://www.harpercorp.com/images/completed/Sirrine-Stadium.jpg

Manly Field 1929

[813Jag]

This is Memorial Stadium, Southern played here for a while in the late 70's-early 80's, while Mumford Stadium was being renovated. It's used for high school games now.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa108/cdwells750/memorial.jpg

[Franks Tanks]

http://www.princeton.edu/football/stadium/final.jpg

Final game at Princeton's Palmer Stadium

[Skjellyfetti]

Nice use of the plural for stadium. xthumbsupx

[Grizaholic17]

Nice use of the plural for stadium. xthumbsupx

LMAO
I like how this is your reply.

There is no good picture that I could find of Dornblaser Field...but the Griz played there for many many years.

[Appinator]

Going way back, this is where we played football originally during homecoming in 1955, right on campus across from the Smith-Wright Building and this is a picture of the new Biology expansion that sits on top of it.

[APPALACHIANstate]

Nice! I like seeing old pictures from Boone.

[furman94]

Year circa what?

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Pics of Lehigh's Taylor Stadium my dad took at the 1987 Lehigh-Lafayette game which was was the last game played at Taylor. I somewhat remember attending games at Taylor but not this one. My dad still talks about how cold it was this day, something like -35 with the windchill.

http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/5812/taylor21tj.jpg

http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/1674/taylor106zw.jpg

http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/6369/taylor51wt.jpg

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/4594/taylor16ou.jpg

[93henfan]

I've been Googling to see where UD played before Delaware Stadium was constructed in the 1950s. No stadium pics, but I did find this pretty cool shot of the 1901 UD football team:

http://www.udel.edu/udphotos/galleries/history/images/football1901.jpg

And since this is a stadium thread, here are some shots of the late JFK (aka Municipal) Stadium in Philly, host of 42 Army-Navy games, the Live Aid concert, heavyweight championship wins by Gene Tunney (over Jack Dempsey - 1926) and Rocky Marciano (over "Jersey" Joe Walcott - 1952), four seasons of the Philadelphia Eagles, and one final concert by the Grateful Dead in 1989 before it was condemned:

Live Aid
http://www.geocities.com/jfkstadiumphilly/jfkphotos/LIVEAIDAerial.jpg

Army-Navy
http://www.autumnspectacle.com/Pageantry/Army-Navy/Corps%20march%20in.jpg

Last Show - The Dead
http://www.geocities.com/jfkstadiumphilly/jfkphotos/GreatFullDead.jpg

[bulldog10jw]

Yale Field

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Yale_Field.jpg/800px-Yale_Field.jpg

[Henny]

Below is the former home of UD football

[Henny]

and the current home 51 years ago

[Henny]

and the existing site

[yoself09]

Conrad Stadium
circa 1963

http://www.alumni.appstate.edu/blog/photos/campus/conradstadiumLG.jpg

[NoCoDanny]

http://www.unco.edu/library/archives/images/arc_PhotoHist/pic_Grandstands-Field-Day.jpg
http://www.unco.edu/library/archives/images/arc_PhotoHist/pic_Cranford-Athletic-Field.jpg
http://www.unco.edu/library/archives/images/arc_PhotoHist/pic_Jackson-Field2.jpg

[Appinator]

Year circa what?
It was homecoming 1955, edited accordingly

[Grizalltheway]

Sirrine Stadium

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~scgreenv/postcards/fuSirrine_Stadium.JPG


Manly Field 1929

He asked for a pic, not a daguerreotype. xrulesx

[SeattleGriz]

Conrad Stadium
circa 1963

http://www.alumni.appstate.edu/blog/photos/campus/conradstadiumLG.jpg

Nice track xrolleyesx

[poly51]

Cal Poly's original Mustang Stadium:

http://members.aol.com/gsimas1/stadium.jpg

[Franks Tanks]

http://www.psuchicago.com/images/BEAVER_STADIUM/old-beaver-field.jpg

Penn State's old Beaver Field. They played here when Paterno started at Penn State.

[Thundar]

Dacotah Field NDSU 1910-1992


http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/archives/ndsubuildings/DacotahField/dacotah-2.jpg

[ngineer]

Nice pics of Taylor at "The Last Game"...the book, Legends of Lehigh-Lafayette, has some decent pictures, one an aerial that gives a good view of the 'weird' footprint of Taylor due to the old baseball field that was used at the east end of the stadium until removed in the late 70's. (See p.213.) Also some pics of fans digging up the '50' on the fifty yard line and walking off with letters from the facade of the 'gondola' press box.

The Lehigh Media Guide has a neat photo of "Taylor Field", before the concrete stadium was built in 1914, with a photo on p.94 taken in 1903.
Don't have the know-how to get these posted here....

[Footix]

http://www.goccusports.com/chantspics/brooksstadiumopeninggame.jpg

Coastal's Brooks Stadium circa 2003 before we expanded the visitor's side. It's all the history we've got.

[Ronbo]

Washington Griz in 1986. Seating 12,000.

http://www.egriz.com/GrizPics2/albums/wgs/1986/normal_Grizzly-Stadium-46.jpg

http://www.egriz.com/GrizPics2/albums/wgs/1986/normal_Grizzly-Stadium-48.jpg

http://www.egriz.com/GrizPics2/albums/wgs/1986/normal_Grizzly-Stadium-45.jpg

[brownbear]

Brown's old Andrews Field:

http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/football/Images/S02/S0201.jpg

http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/football/Images/S02/S0212.jpg

Old Harvard Stadium picture:

http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/football/Images/S02/S0209.jpg

[brownbear]

Some current pictures of old I-AA stadiums:

Nickerson Field - Boston U.

With the old Braves Field front (now a campus police station)
http://render-2.snapfish.com/render2/is=Yup6aQQ%7C%3Dup6RKKt%3Axxr%3D0-qpDofRt7Pf7mrPfrj7t%3DzrRfDUX%3AeQaQxg%3Dr%3F87KR6 xqpxQP0QxG00xenlxv8uOc5xQQQlGJ0GGJeQoqpfVtB%3F*KUp 7BHSHqqy7XH6gX0QoPG%7CRup6lQQ%7C/of=50,590,442

Inside the bleachers
http://render-2.snapfish.com/render2/is=Yup6aQQ%7C%3Dup6RKKt%3Axxr%3D0-qpDofRt7Pf7mrPfrj7t%3DzrRfDUX%3AeQaQxg%3Dr%3F87KR6 xqpxQP0QxG00xenlxv8uOc5xQQQlGJ0GGJeQJqpfVtB%3F*KUp 7BHSHqqy7XH6gX0QoPa%7CRup6lQQ%7C/of=50,590,442

[ChickenMan]

http://www.bluehenfootball.com/FrazierField.jpg

UD's Frazier Field '30s/'40s

[DFW HOYA]

Griffith Stadium, (Former) Home Of The Hoyas:

http://www.hoyabasketball.com/images/griffith.jpg

[NorthernColorado]

http://www.unco.edu/library/archives/images/arc_PhotoHist/pic_Grandstands-Field-Day.jpg
http://www.unco.edu/library/archives/images/arc_PhotoHist/pic_Cranford-Athletic-Field.jpg
http://www.unco.edu/library/archives/images/arc_PhotoHist/pic_Jackson-Field2.jpg

Those are great (especially the field day one, that one looks really old). I can't believe we played at Jackson Field so long.

[Grizalltheway]

Washington Griz in 1986. Seating 12,000.

http://www.egriz.com/GrizPics2/albums/wgs/1986/normal_Grizzly-Stadium-46.jpg

http://www.egriz.com/GrizPics2/albums/wgs/1986/normal_Grizzly-Stadium-48.jpg

http://www.egriz.com/GrizPics2/albums/wgs/1986/normal_Grizzly-Stadium-45.jpg

Man, the place has come a long way. xnodx

[ronpayne]

Going way back, this is where we played football originally during homecoming in 1955, right on campus across from the Smith-Wright Building and this is a picture of the new Biology expansion that sits on top of it.

Rep points just for having the band from 1955 in the picture! Dr. Spencer was the director then - (Rehearsal hall is named after him, and he's a fine bassoonist - played some with the Watauga Community Band, a fun group in their own right).

This is great :-) Is it kickoff yet?

[bulldog10jw]

Another of old Yale Field

http://lh3.ggpht.com/larrymb52/R8-fgWaShDI/AAAAAAAAAlw/lZIXNmQg3RA/Harvard-Yale%20Game%20of%201909.jpg

[Marcus Garvey]

[IMG]Penn State's old Beaver Field. They played here when Paterno started at Penn State.

Nice Beaver pic! xsmiley_wix

I know they dissassembled the structure and moved it to it's present location sometime in the early 60's. But, now one can see why Penn St. oppenents in major urban areas (like Pitt and Penn) refused play in State College. In addition to being in the middle of nowhere, the stadium was rather small.

Also, Go Lehigh TU Owl had some great shots of Taylor Stadium. I forgot about the cinder walking track on field level for the fans. I was never a big fan of siting on cold concrete in November though.

Oh, check out the Beaver Stadium entry in Wikipdia. Some a-hole hijacked the entry. Here's what I mean:

Expansions in 1969, 1974 and 1976 increased capacity to 60,203. In 1978, 16,000 seats were added when the stadium was cut into sections and raised on hydraulic lifts, efforts were over seen by local ob/gyn's, allowing the insertion of seating along the inner ring of the stadium where the track had previously been located. In 1980, maximum capacity increased to 83,770. An expansion was completed for the 1991 football season, placing an upper deck addition over the north end zone and raising capacity to over 90,000. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Stadium#Expansions) xlolx xlolx

[APPALACHIANstate]

Nice Beaver pic! xsmiley_wix

I know they dissassembled the structure and moved it to it's present location sometime in the early 60's. But, now one can see why Penn St. oppenents in major urban areas (like Pitt and Penn) refused play in State College. In addition to being in the middle of nowhere, the stadium was rather small.

Also, Go Lehigh TU Owl had some great shots of Taylor Stadium. I forgot about the cinder walking track on field level for the fans. I was never a big fan of siting on cold concrete in November though.

Oh, check out the Beaver Stadium entry in Wikipdia. Some a-hole hijacked the entry. Here's what I mean:
xlolx xlolx

That's great...xlolx xlolx

[appfan2008]

Those are some great pics back there of wa griz 20 years ago... times sure have changed

[KAUMASS]

Here is a link from Umass74 to some older pictures of UMass football. Our current stadium was built in '65. Capacity 17k. Prior to that, we played our home games about a 1/2 mile away. I couldn't find a picture that had all the stands in view of the older stadium...I couldn't find the name for the older stadium, probably Hicks field or something like that. It looks like bleachers surrounded the field..capacity looks like about 4-5k. There are a bunch of pictures from the 1900's through the 70's. There are some pictures of our current stadium when they had bleachers in the end zone and under the concourse level. They took those out in the 70's I believe. Neat stuff, I like seeing the evolution of the football helmet and some of the older uniforms for UMass and our opponents. People really dressed up for games in the '60's. Coat and ties and lots of older style hats...

http://www.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/aka/imagefinder.cgi?query=football+&search_collectiontitle_name=Sports&itemnum=

[UNH_Alum_In_CT]

Here is a link from Umass74 to some older pictures of UMass football. Our current stadium was built in '65. Capacity 17k. Prior to that, we played our home games about a 1/2 mile away. I couldn't find a picture that had all the stands in view of the older stadium...I couldn't find the name for the older stadium, probably Hicks field or something like that. It looks like bleachers surrounded the field..capacity looks like about 4-5k. There are a bunch of pictures from the 1900's through the 70's. There are some pictures of our current stadium when they had bleachers in the end zone and under the concourse level. They took those out in the 70's I believe. Neat stuff, I like seeing the evolution of the football helmet and some of the older uniforms for UMass and our opponents. People really dressed up for games in the '60's. Coat and ties and lots of older style hats...

http://www.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/aka/imagefinder.cgi?query=football+&search_collectiontitle_name=Sports&itemnum=

Neat picture of BU's Nickerson Field on page 13, last pic.

[DrG]

Here is a link from Umass74 to some older pictures of UMass football. Our current stadium was built in '65. Capacity 17k. Prior to that, we played our home games about a 1/2 mile away. I couldn't find a picture that had all the stands in view of the older stadium...I couldn't find the name for the older stadium, probably Hicks field or something like that. It looks like bleachers surrounded the field..capacity looks like about 4-5k. There are a bunch of pictures from the 1900's through the 70's. There are some pictures of our current stadium when they had bleachers in the end zone and under the concourse level. They took those out in the 70's I believe. Neat stuff, I like seeing the evolution of the football helmet and some of the older uniforms for UMass and our opponents. People really dressed up for games in the '60's. Coat and ties and lots of older style hats...

http://www.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/aka/imagefinder.cgi?query=football+&search_collectiontitle_name=Sports&itemnum=
I think it was called Alumni Field. It was basically a press box with wooden bleachers that they took down for baseball season. They built the Whitmore administration building there after the new stadium was constructed in 1965.

[Marcus Garvey]

On that UMass site, I found a couple of pics of UMass at Harvard. Harvard is wearing white, which was common among home teams in the 50's:

http://www.library.umass.edu/speccollimages/referenceimages/RG141-0009133.png
http://www.library.umass.edu/speccollimages/referenceimages/RG141-0009145.png

I find these pics interesting for 2 reasons:
1) You can see the disparity between Harvard and UMass's football programs at that time. UMass was the podunk team.
2) I wasn't aware that Harvard Stadium had temporary bleacher erected infront of the concrete stands to bring seating down to field level.

And one more pic. Can anyone confirm who UMass' opponent is in this photo? I suspect it's Vermont:
http://www.library.umass.edu/speccollimages/referenceimages/RG141-0009141.png

[KAUMASS]

I could not link this picture, but anyone recognize this stadium? I can't make out the opposing player's helmet? Stands look like it could be BC, Holy Cross or possibly Maine. Looks like stands are on the backside of the structure for a baseball field.

[UAalum72]

2) I wasn't aware that Harvard Stadium had temporary bleacher erected infront of the concrete stands to bring seating down to field level.
Harvard also once had steel bleachers enclosing the horseshoe, raising capacity to 57,000+. Torn down in 1951. Photo from 1921
http://sportstemples.bpl.org/IMGs/STMedium/tm_st10850.jpg

And one more pic. Can anyone confirm who UMass' opponent is in this photo? I suspect it's Vermont:
The Helmet Project confirms UVM (looks like the same photo)
http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/vermont_2p.jpg

[Marcus Garvey]

I could not link this picture, but anyone recognize this stadium? I can't make out the opposing player's helmet? Stands look like it could be BC, Holy Cross or possibly Maine. Looks like stands are on the backside of the structure for a baseball field.

I don't think it's BC. Alumni Stadium (pre-renovations) had a running track in front of the field and light standards between the field and stands, although I don't know when the lights were moved. Also I think the opposing player's uniform is too dark to be a BC shade of red.

I don't think it's Holy Cross either. Fitton Field's stands extend past the goal line. While it's possible the field was configured slightly differently at one point, I still don't think it's Fitton Field. If it were, those stands would have to be the south grandstand. IIRC, the south stands are built along an embankement. This pic shows no such embankment.

I suspect it's either Maine's old stadium as there appears to be a block "M" on the player's helmet.