Today's Tidbit... More Grandstanding In Early Football
Today's Tidbit... More Grandstanding In Early Football
Yesterday’s Tidbit covered grandstands, specifically single-level stadiums that covered fans’ heads during the days when many players exposed their heads to the sun, rain, and significant pounding. I am limited in the number of images I can post per article, so I asked readers to suggest stadiums missing from the first story.
Carter Claiborne offered a favorite, and several others showed baseball fields with covers.
Proud and Purple suggested several, including one I omitted yesterday due to the size limit. Oregon’s Hayward Field topped his list. Pictured below is an RPPC showing the 1917 team practicing there.
Utah had a sprinkler system in place early on, and it looks like they needed it,
Another beauty is Oregon State’s Bell Field, which opened in 1910. I think I just fell in love with a stadium that no longer exists.
Not wanting to lose their cover, Oregon State proposed a replacement, their current Reser Field. I don’t know if or how it differed from the artist’s rendering, but…
Several D-III programs in the Northwest have covered themselves nicely. It must rain a lot up there. Linfield’s Maxwell Stadium and Willamette’s Ted Ogdahl Field show up rather well.
Continuing the D-III theme, William Wyrick noted that Mount Union built their stadium in 1912. The Library of Congress shot below shows them hosting Case Institute in 1914.
If anyone else has suggestions and links for additional grandstanders, please keep ‘em coming.
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