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Caption: Dedication - Memorial Stadium Drive Book #2
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Yale Bozvl IIa rva rd Sta d i u m 11 11 of the last game—with Ohio. ^ In this spirit he went to * students and alumni and the University's friends. Seventy-five t h o u s a n d people, he told them, will see athletic contests in the great concrete Stadium. It will be 65 seats high and will have a frontage of 360 feet. If placed side by side in a continuous row, Harold Pogue, 'i? "Chuck" Carney, 2^ All-Conference halfback All-American end the seats would go 25 miles. And there will be a track—a quarter-mile; and perhaps a 220-yard straightaway, a rare and important feature. Under the stands will be many basketball floors, handball and wrestling courts, lockers and showers. Outside the structure there will be a 100-acre recreation field containing baseball diamonds, football gridirons, hockey and soccer and lacrosse fields, clay tennis courts, archery courts and perhaps a polo field. Larger than the Yale Bowl and the Harvard Stadium will be our Illinois Stadium, he told them, and the new automobile roads from all points in the middle west will bring the greatest crowds in America to see the fighting Illini in sportsmanlike conflict. And, he concluded, it will take $2,500,000 to build it; for the memorial features, $1,200,000 and for the stands $1,300,000. Where the Stadium would be, he could not say for sure, although it is likely to be on the new University athletic field <•#*•. a t F i r s t Street a n d Armory Avenue. T h u s Bob Z u p p k e went .. * . ifd*, about, to Illini clubs on the Atlantic seaboard and on the Pacific coast, always accompanying his friend " G , " telling the world—particularly the Illini w o r l d — o f t h e p l a n s which were growing o u t of "Slooey" Chapman, '16 "Potsy" Clark, '16 " G " Huffs vision. All-American center All-Conference quarterback y t Present Illinois Field
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