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Caption: Book - Overview of University of Illinois for Chicago Alumni (1926)
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46 DIRECTORY OF ILLINOIS MEN IN CHICAGO AND VICINITY 47 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS MEMORIAL STADIUM C. J. Roseberry, '05 The University of Illinois Memorial Stadium was completed in time to be dedicated with impressive solemnity on Friday afternoon, October 17, 1924, Mr. Robert F. Carr, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Memorial Stadium Fund, presided as Master of Ceremonies. The dedicatory address was made by President Kinley and the Stadium Ode was read by Lew Sarett, '16. On the following day, Saturday, October 18, the Stadium was dedicated for its utilitarian purpose by that never-to-be-forgotten victory over the University of Michigan football team, with a score of 39 to 14, in the presence of 68,000 people. The dedication of the Memorial Stadium was the culmination of several years of thought, planning and work on the part of many Illini, both students and alumni, under the inspiring leadership of Mr. George A. Huff, '92, Director of Physical Education and President of the University of Illinois Athletic Association, ably assisted by Coach Zuppke. Our Stadium is probably the only one in the United States which combines the practical utility of a Stadium with the incorporation of the memorial colonnades within the structure itself. It is in truth a memorial Stadium in every sense of the word. The committee charged with planning the Stadium succeeded in combining with the memorial a seating capacity of about 5 6,000 within the Stadium proper. This has been expanded by the use of temporary seats to a total capacity of about 68,000. Too many of the subscribers to the Memorial Stadium Fund have fallen into the habit of thinking that because the Stadium was completed on schedule time for its dedication in October, 1924, as originally planned, it is complete in every way. In order that the building might be finished and dedicated according to the original program, it was necessary for the Stadium Committee to borrow about $350,000 from the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago, with which to pay the construction bills. This money was borrowed with the understanding that all unpaid subscriptions to the Stadium Fund would be held as collateral security for the payment of this loan, and that as collections were made the money would be turned over to the Continental Bank in reduction of the indebtedness. At this writing (July 1, 1926) about 11,000 subscriptions have o I 2 O SI O 2 a & o S
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