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The stadium was named for Doak S. Campbell, the president of the university at the time of its construction, and the field was named for legendary head football coach Bobby Bowden.
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The site of the oblong piazza is Domitian's ancient stadium, which was probably used for horse and chariot races.
Sharing the program was the young French-Canadian tenor Richard Verreau, making his stadium debut on this occasion.
The stadium " Tivoli ", opened in 1928, served as the venue for the team's home games and was well known for its incomparable atmosphere throughout the whole of the second division.
The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.
In 1965, after a stadium ( Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium ), was built, the city of Atlanta felt the time was right to start pursuing professional football.
It was taken for granted that a domed stadium was a must for a major-league team to be a viable venture in the Phoenix area.
The stadium, which is owned directly by the club, was inaugurated in 2006 and replaced the old Alkmaarderhout venue as the DSB Stadion.
The stadium name temporarily changed from DSB Stadion to AZ Stadion, as it was considered undesirable that the stadium was linked with a non-existent bank.
In September 2011, it was announced that the new president, Thomas DiBenedetto, had reached an agreement with the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, to have the new stadium completed by 2016.
The club played its earliest seasons at the Motovelodromo Appio stadium, before settling in the working-class streets of Testaccio, where it built an all-wooden ground Campo Testaccio ; this was opened in November 1929.
The stadium is located next to Lake Michigan, and was recently remodeled in a modernization intended to update stadium amenities while preserving a historic Chicago structure.
In 2002, the stadium was closed and rebuilt with only the exterior wall of the stadium being preserved.
This was the first playoff game at Soldier Field since the stadium reopened.
He ultimately chose the former when a deal between the city, Hamilton County, and Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds ( who were seeking a replacement for the obsolete Crosley Field ) was struck that resulted in an agreement to build a multipurpose stadium which could host both baseball and football games.
In a tribute, Mike Brown named the stadium after his father during a time when it was a trend in the NFL to accept corporate offers to have the stadium renamed for a corporation.
A court case followed in January 1905, as a result of which Archibald Leitch, a Scottish architect who had risen to prominence after his building of the Ibrox Stadium, a few years earlier, was hired to work on the stadium.
There were also plans for Henry Norris to build a larger stadium on the other side of Stevenage Road but there was little need after the merger idea failed.
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Doubleday Field is a minor league baseball stadium named for Abner Doubleday, located in Cooperstown, New York, near the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The Cotton Bowl was the longtime home of the annual Cotton Bowl Classic college football bowl game, for which the stadium is named.
11 years later, an elegant stadium was constructed on the site of Bennett Park and named Navin Field for owner Frank Navin.
From 1995 – 1997 and again from 2006 – 2009, the stadium was named Jacksonville Municipal Stadium.
Brookside Park, situated next to the Rose Bowl, features a baseball diamond and stadium named Jackie Robinson Field.
The New York Public School system has named a middle school after Robinson, and Dorsey High School plays at a Los Angeles football stadium named after him.
Both Cardiff Cricket Club and Glamorgan then moved to a new ground at Sophia Gardens on the opposite bank of the River Taff to the Arms Park, following work on the creation of a national rugby stadium, later named the National Stadium.
During a roadtrip to Houston, later in the season, Smith met a part-time usherette at the Astrodome named Denise while making his way to the team bus outside the stadium.
The street where the Olympic Stadium in Montreal is located ( which hosted the 1976 Summer Olympic Games ) was named after Pierre de Coubertin, giving the stadium the address 4549 Pierre de Coubertin Avenue.
In the 2003 and 2004 seasons, a hawk named Faith would fly around the stadium just before the team came out of the tunnel.
His estate, headed by son John Kent Cooke, took over ownership of the Redskins and at his memorial service, John Kent Cooke announced that the new stadium in Landover, Maryland will be named Jack Kent Cooke Stadium.
* In 1960, a stand at the stadium in Toowoomba, Australia, was named the " E. S. ' Nigger ' Brown Stand " honoring 1920s rugby league player Edward Stanley Brown, so nicknamed since early life because of his pale white skin ; so known all his life, his tombstone is engraved Nigger.
It has its own stadium named Rafael Mendoza.
whose stadium is named De Montfort Park.
This was because the new stadium, named Pirelli Stadium lies next to the Pirelli factory in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
squad who died in the Superga air disaster ; Stadio Franco Ossola, the stadium of A. S. Varese 1910, is named in his honour.
On returning home, Hasely " Raj Paul " Crawford had both a jet and a stadium named after him. After all he won his country's first gold medal.
Club chairman Daniel Levy announced in November 2009 that the new stadium will not adopt the White Hart Lane name, but will instead be named after a sponsor.
The main stadium used for the 1992 Summer Olympics, located on Montjuïc, is officially named in his memory.
** ONO Estadi, a football stadium in Mallorca, Spain, named for this cable company
Sweetwater's football and track stadium is named Gail Devers Stadium.
* Bucknell's football stadium is named " Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium ".
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The new robot city will feature research and development centers for manufacturers and part suppliers, as well as exhibition halls and a stadium for robot competitions.
One independent group which had been active in NFL exhibition promotions in Atlanta applied for franchises in both the American Football League and the NFL, acting entirely on its own with no guarantee of stadium rights.
The Orioles are also well known for their successful stadium, the trend-setting Oriole Park at Camden Yards, which opened in 1992 in downtown Baltimore.
The stadium has been used by the Australian national football team for some friendly matches due to a large expatriate population living in England ( mainly in London ).
Yet Fulham's comfortable Premier League table positions in the previous years and the fact that, for the previous three seasons the ground has been filled to capacity, means stadium expansion is a viable option.
The massive stadium did, however, permit the Indians to set the then record for the largest crowd to see a Major League baseball game.
Throughout the 1980s, the Indians ' owners had pushed for a new stadium.
In 1984, a proposal for a $ 150 million domed stadium was defeated in a referendum 2 – 1.
The large East Terrace had been closed down by the authorities after the Bradford City stadium fire and the ground's owner wanted to use part of the site for housing.
This allows them to seat more fans in a given amount of space than the typical professional stadium, which tends to have more features and comforts for fans.
These areas contribute famous skyscrapers, abundant restaurants, shopping, museums, a stadium for the Chicago Bears, convention facilities, parkland, and beaches.
In the early 1970s the club's owners announced a modernisation of Stamford Bridge with plans for a state-of-the-art 50, 000 all-seater stadium.
As a condition for using the Chelsea FC name, the club has to play its first team matches at Stamford Bridge, which means that if the club moves to a new stadium, they may have to change their name.
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