City Stadium
Posted: January 20th, 2006, 2:31 am
Since someone mentioned our old football home in another thread, I'd thought I'd share this with you:
The pic comes from the '86 yearbook which accounts for the unsightly crease down the middle of the shot. But the pic itself is of the first LU football game I ever attended. It was opening night 1985 against West Georgia. We had the stadium packed ... unfortunately that was not a regular occurence. 2500+ freshmen without cars were dumped on the campus that week and this was the only form of entertainment to speak of (loaded onto those death traps they called buses back then).
Most games the last couple of seasons we were at City Stadium before Williams was completed were day games with practically no one in attendance. Getting the team up onto the mountain was important for many reasons. But the primary being the ability of students to attend the games without all the difficulties we had at City Stadium.
The pic comes from the '86 yearbook which accounts for the unsightly crease down the middle of the shot. But the pic itself is of the first LU football game I ever attended. It was opening night 1985 against West Georgia. We had the stadium packed ... unfortunately that was not a regular occurence. 2500+ freshmen without cars were dumped on the campus that week and this was the only form of entertainment to speak of (loaded onto those death traps they called buses back then).
Most games the last couple of seasons we were at City Stadium before Williams was completed were day games with practically no one in attendance. Getting the team up onto the mountain was important for many reasons. But the primary being the ability of students to attend the games without all the difficulties we had at City Stadium.