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Caption: Dedication - Memorial Stadium Drive Book #1
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OTHER STADIA AT YALE. OOTBALL was first played at Yale in 1840, but it was not until about 1870 that it became a general college game. In 1896 the Yale Athletic Association erected a wood stadium seating 18,000 persons. The Yale Bowl, constructed in 1917, will seat 61,000 spectators. It is the form of a four center oval 300 feet by 500 feet from fa?e to face of the inner walls, and about 750 feet over all, covering about twelve and one-half acres. An excavation of 27 feet was made over the area covered by the playing field . The inner slope was made continuous and covered with reinforced concrete so designed that it formed a continuous tier of seats entirely surrounding the playing field. Thirty reinforced concrete tunnels give access to the spectators seats. AT HARVARD. The Harvard stadium is U-shaped. It was built in 1903-04 to accommodate 23,000 spectators, but with temporary seats accommodating 45,000. It is a steel and concrete structure suggesting Roman types of construction in appearance. The playing area accommodates a gridiron, a quarter mile track, and facilities for other inter-collegiate sports. The inner wall of the structure is nine feet high with molded base and coping, while the outer wall is 53 feet in height, and consists of two tiers of Roman arches and piers, separated by a moulded belt course and surmounted with a parapet with massive cornice. Spectators' entrances to the stadium are all from the outside. Three steps extend the whole length of the outside wall, admitting people to the corridor, which can be used as a running track in bad weather. From the corridor, concrete walks lead inward to 36 stairways giving access to the lower end of each seat aisle. Eight larger stairways ascend to the second floor corridor from which passages and short flights of stairs lead to the seats. AT PRINCETON. Palmer Memorial stadium was completed in 1914. It is a reinforced concrete structure, U-shaped in plan, with a seating capacity of 42,000. The exterior of the structure, in design, is an arcade broken at the center of the curved end by two large towers 72 feet high. Between them is an archway. Entrance to the seats is through 26 runways uniformly spaced. HARVARD STADIUM STADIUM AT COLLEGE OF CITY OF NEW YORK YALE BOWL Page Eighteen CHICAGO'S PROPOSED MEMORIAL IN GRANT PARK
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