Memorial Stadium Back in the Day

that's me on the left...about halfway up on the 50.
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Carbon copy with east and west stands. I like traditional pillars ....... I say remove four video screens.

And I love natural grass.

Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm grass in the morning. The smell, you know that gasoline grass smell, the whole hill football field. Smelled like

[sniffing, pondering]

Kilgore: Victory.
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Thought I'd add an updated image similar to the original. Fireworks included for free...

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Haspula said:
I recognized avery hall
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And what looks like Sheldon Art Gallery off to the left. If so, I didn't realize the building was that old. But there's no Hamilton Hall to the North of Sheldon. (down, in the pic).

Also, back then the field had stripes. But then they got rid of the stripes when we first got artificial turf, and reintroduced them in about 2005 when we got field turf.

edit: Astroturf came in 1970. This link says FieldTurf came in 1999, but I think the stripes came in 2005 with the replacement of the FieldTurf, IIRC. LINK

 
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What year were both of those?

I see some empty seats, leading me to wonder even more about the so-called sellout streak.

/s

 
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