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TIDBITS® TAKES A LOOK AT FOOTBALL STADIUMS by Patricia L. Cook This Tidbits tackles some football stadiums where history was made. Looking only at college stadiums, let’s kick back and learn! • Three of the oldest college football stadiums in the nation... More

TIDBITS® TAKES A LOOK AT FOOTBALL STADIUMS by Patricia L. Cook This Tidbits tackles some football stadiums where history was made. Looking only at college stadiums, let’s kick back and learn! • Three of the oldest college football stadiums in the nation are in the northeast, where the oldest institutions of higher learning in this country exist. • The University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field is considered by the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) to be the oldest football stadium. Built in 1895, it originally cost $100,000. Rebuilt in 1922, it became the nation’s first two-tiered stadium. Franklin Field was the location of the nation’s first scoreboard in 1895, first football radio broadcast in 1922, and first telecast in 1939. • The horseshoe-shaped Harvard Stadium is claimed on Harvard’s website to be the nation’s oldest stadium. Built in 1903, recognized as a National Historic Landmark, the stadium was the world’s first “massive reinforced concrete structure. Less