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  Los Angeles Coliseum - LA Memorial Coliseum - Los Angeles Coliseum Tickets, Seating Chart
The Los Angeles Coliseum was built in the early 1920's and open its doors to the Los Angeles community in June 1923.
The Los Angeles Coliseum complex provided a house for the Rams (from Cleveland, 1946-79), the LA Dodgers (from Brooklyn, 1958-61) and the LA Lakers (from Minneapolis, 1960-68), and was the growth home of the San Diego Chargers (1960, AFL) and Kings (1967, NHL).
The 92,516 seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum serve as the home of the Los Angeles Raiders of the NFL from 1982 during the 1994 season, and at present serves as the residence for the University of Southern California football (since 1923), and international soccer competition.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is one of the greatest --and largest-- stadiums in America.
The Coliseum is located on 17 acres in Exposition Park, which also houses museums, gardens and the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
The Coliseum's general offices are located at the south side of the peristyle end and are open from 8:30 a.m.
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 BallparkTour - Former ballparks of Los Angeles - Wrigley Field and the Coliseum
Wrigley Field in Los Angeles was named for William K. Wrigley, Jr., the chewing-gum magnate who owned both the Chicago Cubs of the National League, and the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League.
South-central LA decayed along with the rubble, and it is now one of the poorest sections of Los Angeles (it was ground zero for the LA riots in the nineties).
The Los Angeles Coliseum also did duty as a baseball stadium in 2001, representing other ballparks in the HBO movie 61, Billy Crystal's account of the home-run race between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle in 1961.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was built in stages starting in 1923 and has had significant renovations for each of the Olympiads, in addition to repairs caused by the Northridge earthquake.
The Los Angeles Coliseum Commission has proposed plans that would bring the Coliseum up to a state of the art venue for a National Football League team, as well as continuing its use by the University of Southern California, plus a variety of concert/performance configurations.
The Schools and Government Operations Committee of the Los Angeles County Grand Jury determined that there are several areas of concern in the areas of safety and health of patrons of the Coliseum as it now is configured.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference played in the Coliseum from 1946 to 1949, when the conference merged with the NFL and the Dons franchise was folded.
Los Angeles County voters are generally uninterested in appropriating tax revenues toward a new stadium, which would put the costs of renovation on any future tenant.
Another factor is its location at the edge of South Los Angeles, which is perceived by many potential fans as a somewhat unsafe part of the city, although the area is considerably safer today than it was when the stadium housed two NFL teams.
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 College Gridirons-LA Coliseum-USC Trojans
Los Angeles, CA Site of the Olympic Games two times, the Los Angeles Coliseum, has hosted many great games during its existence.
By 1930, the City of Los Angeles was awarded the 1932 Olympics.
Besides being the home of the Trojans, the Los Angeles Coliseum has been the home of the Raiders and Rams of the NFL and the Dodgers.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- NFL, Coliseum reach preliminary agreement on return to L.A.
LOS ANGELES – The NFL and city officials have reached a preliminary agreement on terms to bring a team back to the Los Angeles Coliseum.
The Los Angeles area, the second-largest television market in the country, has been without an NFL team since the Raiders moved from the Coliseum back to Oakland and the Rams moved from Anaheim to St. Louis before the 1995 season.
After announcing plans in the spring of 1999 to put an expansion team in the Coliseum, the NFL was unable to reach an agreement with the Los Angeles backers and instead awarded the 32nd franchise to Houston that October.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - BR Bullpen
Built in 1932 for the Summer Olympics (only stadium prior to 1977 to host major league baseball and the Summer Olympics), stadium is a true coliseum, with the famous torch and scoreboard (called the "peristyle") on the one end, the track around the perimeter of the stadium, and all that.
The Coliseum is home of the USC Trojans and former home of the Los Angeles Rams and L.A. Raiders, and let's just face it – the park wasn't cut out for baseball.
The January 1994 earthquake that rocked Los Angeles did major but reparable damage to the Coliseum; repairs were made in time for USC to continue to use the stadium for football.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Los Angeles unveils Coliseum upgrade in hopes of luring football team
LOS ANGELES – City officials next week will pitch their plans to the NFL for an $800 million upgrade of the aging Los Angeles Coliseum in hopes of luring a professional football team back to town.
The Coliseum is used by the University of Southern California football team but it hasn't hosted a professional team since the Raiders in 1994.
“Los Angeles is a great sports town,” Villaraigosa said at Tuesday's news conference at the Coliseum where city officials outlined the renovation plans.
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 Facilities :: The University of Southern California Trojans - Official Athletic Site
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is one of the greatest and largest stadiums in America.
The 1998 season marked the 75th anniversary of USC football in the Coliseum Construction on the Coliseum took less than 2 years, with ground breaking ceremonies held on Dec. 21, 1921, and work completed on May 1, 1923.
Over the years, the Coliseum has been home to many sports teams besides the Trojans, including UCLA football, Los Angeles Rams, Raiders, Express and Xtreme football, and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball.
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 Christopher A. Joseph & Associates: Project Portfolio
CAJA prepared an EIR for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission to renovate the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for a potential NFL team.
Upon completion of the proposed renovations, it is anticipated that the Coliseum would continue to host the same number and type of events as under existing and historical conditions.
One of the primary goals of the project was to renovate the Coliseum in conformance with the generally accepted standards of design for National Football League (NFL) stadiums, thus enabling the Coliseum Commission to acquire and maintain an NFL franchise in the City of Los Angeles.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Seating Chart, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Tickets, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Maps
Although its current capacity is listed as 92,516, the Coliseum used to seat more than 100,000 and often exceeded that number by quite a bit before renovations, including some because of a 1994 earthquake, changed the configuration of the stadium.
The Coliseum hosted the first Super Bowl in 1967 with the Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeating the AFL’s Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
The Coliseum was the home of the Los Angeles Raiders before they moved to Oakland, and is still the home stadium of the two-time defending national champion USC Trojans.
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 Stadiums of the NFL-Los Angeles Coliseum-Super Bowl I & VII
Professional football at the Coliseum was first played in 1946, when owner of the Cleveland Rams, Dan Reeves moved his team to Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Rams spent more than three decades at the coliseum before moving to Anaheim Stadium after the 1979 season.
Today, the Los Angeles Coliseum continues to serve as the home of the University of Southern California football team.
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 BallParkWatch -Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum / Los Angeles Dodgers / 1958-1961   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When the Los Angeles Coliseum was constructed for the 1932 Olympics, no one ever envisioned that it would be used as a baseball stadium.
But when Walter O'Malley moved the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles after the end of the 1957 season, he decided that the Coliseum would be a great place to play baseball while Dodger Stadium was under construction.
Over the years the Los Angeles Coliseum has been the home of the University of Southern California (USC) football team (still to this day, as a matter of fact) as well as the NFL's Los Angeles Raiders and Los Angeles Rams.
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 LosAngelesPunk.com
Saturday November 23rd was a rather beautiful day in the Los Angeles area.
The 5th Annual Cypress Hill Smoke Out Tour came to the Los Angeles Area for a one day event that continued on with its tradition: bringing an assorted line up of musical genius that includes hip hop, rock and electronic dance music.
Thousands of music fans piled into the arena for the event, which was held for the first time in the Los Angeles City limits.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | BaseballLibrary.com
Expanded to 105,000 seats for the 1932 Olympics, the Coliseum was easily baseball's largest stadium, but was structurally incapable of containing a normal baseball field.
A 42' screen was erected in the left-field corner in an attempt to reduce the number of pop fly home runs, while the right-field fence shot sharply out to an almost unreachable 440' in 1958.
In only four seasons the Dodgers set several attendance records at the Coliseum, including 92,706 for Game Five of the 1959 WS against the White Sox and 93,103 for a May 7, 1959 exhibition against the Yankees on Roy Campanella Night.
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 Ballparks of Baseball-L.A. Coliseum-Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles, CA Home of the Los Angeles Dodgers for four years, the L.A. Coliseum was the most inadequate place for baseball to be played at.
The Dodgers played their first game in Los Angeles at the coliseum on April 18, 1958.
The L.A. Coliseum still stands today and is the home of the USC football team.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Dodgers played at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for four years while they waited for Dodger Stadium to be completed.
In only their second year in Los Angeles, the Dodgers won the 1959 World Series.
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 Ballparks of Baseball-L.A. Coliseum
Los Angeles, CA Home of the Los Angeles Dodgers for four years, the L.A. Coliseum became the most inadequate place for a baseball team to play at.
When Walter O’Malley decided to move the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles, three playing sites were waiting for him.
The L.A. Coliseum still stands today, and is used by football and soccer teams.
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 Los Angeles Coliseum - Schedule, Dates and USC Trojans Tickets - Los Angeles, CA
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 Wykoff Vanquished Williams
The new lights that were installed at the Los Angeles Coliseum glowed brightly at the first evening Track and Field event featuring the 1932 Olympic hopefuls.
The occasion was the Pre-Olympic Track and Field Meet at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on June 19, 1931.
The Pre-Olympic Meet was staged under the direction of the Board of Athletic Governor of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, headed by William May Garland, President, and P.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum tickets events in Los Angeles, CA including a Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum seating chart
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 Stadiums of the NFL-Los Angeles Coliseum-Los Angeles Rams/Raiders
Stadiums of the NFL-Los Angeles Coliseum-Los Angeles Rams/Raiders
Site of the Olympic games two times, the Los Angeles Coliseum has hosted many great games during its existence.
Stadiums of the NFL is not associated with the National Football League in any way.
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 Amazon.com: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Images of America): Books: Chris Epting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Opened to the public in June of 1923, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum can arguably be called ìAmericaís Most Historic Sports Stadium.î In 1984 the Memorial Coliseum was declared a State and Federal Historic Landmark for its contributions to both the State of California and the United States.
Besides the Los Angeles Coliseum, Rasadena's Rose Bowl and Yankee Stadium in New York also opened.
But the Los Angeles Coliseum has hosted two NFL teams, two Super Bowls, both historic in their own way, two Olympics, Evel Kneivel, an acceptance speech from a President-to-be, record-breaking attendance figures for the Dodgers and The Reverend Billy Graham, fireworks shows, rock concerts and one of the biggest rivalries in college football.
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 USC vs. UCLA Gallery ::
Southern California's Dwayne Jarrett, left, carries in an 8-yard Matt Leinart pass as UCLA's Trey Brown defends for a touchdown against UCLA at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2005.
Southern California's Reggie Bush (5) is hauled down by UCLA defenders Michael Norris (22) and Jarrad Page (4) after rushing for 65 yards in the second quarter of their game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2005.
UCLA quarterback Drew Olson is hauled down by Southern California's Sedrick Ellis as he fails to scramble for a first down in the third quarter at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2005.
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 Los Angeles Coliseum Double Matted 8" x 10" Photograph (Unframed): Compare Prices, View Price History and Read ...
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Los Angeles Coliseum Double Matted 8" x 10" Photograph (Unframed)
This fully licensed 8'x10' color photograph is printed from an original negative, custom cropped on high gloss photographic paper, mounted in an acid free double matte featuring precision bevel cuts.
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 About USC - Visit USC - University Park Campus - Event Venues - Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is also home to USC’s Trojan football team since 1923 when USC played their first game there against Pomona College.
Additionally, this historic venue has hosted a variety of globally important events, including the 1988 Amnesty International Tour.
Enter the stadium through a designated entrance located at each of the seven entry gates.
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