[Husker] Memorial Stadium capacity?

Skip Burrell skip.burrell at cox.net
Mon Sep 4 15:00:38 CDT 2006


Steve Curry wrote:
> It appears that Nebraska won the football attendance competition on opening
> day:
> N   85181
> T   85123
> O   84555
> aTm   70104
> TT   50362
> M   50074
> KS   47250
> C   45513
> K   44025
> B   42733
> IS   42531
> OS   41393
For those wondering about how Memorial Stadium compares to other college football venues, I found this at:

http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rsfc/stadiums.txt

                     D I V I S I O N  I - A  S T A D I U M S
                      (Listed in order of Seating Capacity)
   ===========================================================================
                                                                      Surface
                       Stadium        Year                     On   (See Note
   School         (@=Domed Stadium)   Built     Capacity    Campus?  For Key)
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Michigan       Michigan            1927      107,501        Y          A
   Penn St.       Beaver              1960      107,282        Y          G
   Tennessee      Neyland             1921      104,079        Y          G
   Ohio St.       Ohio                1922      101,568        Y          P
   UCLA           Rose Bowl           1922      100,089        N          G
   Georgia        Sanford             1929       92,746        Y          G
   Louisiana St.  Tiger               1924       92,400        Y          G
   Alabama        Bryant-Denny        1929       92,238        Y          P
   Southern Cal   LA Colliseum        1923       92,000        N          G
   Florida        Florida Field       1929       88,548        Y          G
   Auburn         Jordan-Hare         1939       87,451        Y          G
   Stanford       Stanford            1921       85,500        Y          G
   Oklahoma       Owen Field          1924       83,000        Y          G
   Texas A&M      Kyle Field          1927       82,600        Y          G
                                               (102,600 by 2008)
   Florida St.    Doak Campbell       1950       82,300        Y          P
 * Arkansas       Razorback           1938       82,000        Y          G
   Nebraska       Osborne Field       1923       81,067        Y          A
   Texas          Memorial            1924       81,050        Y          P


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