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Opened in 1915 as " Alumni Field ," Boston College's first stadium was located just south of Gasson Quadrangle, on the site of the present " Campus Green ", better known as the " Dustbowl.

" While today that area of BC's campus is grass-covered and landscaped, the Dustbowl nickname originated as a description of Alumni Field in the years when it was intensely-used as a practice field, a baseball diamond, and a running track.

Formally dedicated " as a memorial to the boys that were " on October 30, 1915, Alumni Field and its distinctive " maroon goal-posts on a field of green " were hailed in that evening's edition of the Boston Saturday Evening Transcript as " one of the sights in Boston.

" The original grandstands, which could accommodate 2, 200 spectators in 1915, were enlarged over the subsequent years to 25, 000.

Nonetheless Alumni Field often proved too small for BC football games which were frequently held at Fenway Park, and later Braves Field, beginning in the 1930s. Alumni Field, precursor to Alumni Stadium, ca.

1920