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| | Olympic Stadium/Autostade/Molson Stadium Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The Stadium was originally constructed with a 7,676-seat grandstand. A large majority of the estimated $100,000 construction costs came from Captain Percival Molson, a McGill football, hockey and track star who bequeathed $75,000 to help defray the costs of a new stadium. |
 | | Following the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Alouettes moved into Olympic Stadium, where they played until 1986, when the franchise folded and then back there in 1996, when the team was resurrected. |
 | | But the stadium proved to be an albatross around their necks, what with the high rental, the enormous amount of empty seats which gave it a sterile atmosphere for games. |
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