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	Memorial Stadium
		Memorial Stadium was completed in 1950 to replace Oriole Park, the home of the local International League club, which had burned down six years earlier.
		Memorial Stadium inherited the spring ritual of US Presidents throwing out the first ball on opening day when the Washington Senators left the nation's capital after the 1971 season.
		The Memorial Wall was the very large and visible concrete plaque located on the outside of the ballpark behind bome plate.
	www.ballparks.com /baseball/american/memori.htm (949 words)

	Ballparks of Baseball-Memorial Stadium-Baltimore Orioles
		The stadium took a rounded horseshoe appearance and the second tier spanned the inside of the horseshoe, stretching from the third-base side around to just beyond the first-base side.
		Memorial Stadium was a great place to watch a baseball game, but an terrible place to watch football.
		Memorial Stadium remained empty until 2001 when it was demolished.
	www.ballparksofbaseball.com /past/MemorialStadium.htm (0 words)

	Football Illinois Fighting Illini :: The Official Athletic Site
		Memorial Stadium was built in 1923 as a memorial to Illinois men and women who gave their lives for their country during World War I. Their names appear on 200 columns that support the east and west sides of the stadium.
		The Memorial Stadium seating capacity for 2007 will be 57,078, down from the previous capacity of 69,249 due to the renovations to the facility which are in progress as part of Illinois Renaissance.
		AstroTurf was installed in the stadium in 1985 and the portion of it between the goal lines was replaced in the fall of 1989 after vandals burned a 40-yard swath in the middle of the field in the early-morning hours of Sept. 24.
	fightingillini.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/MemorialStadium.html (1146 words)

	HawkZone - powered by CJOnline.com
		Memorial stadium was formally dedicated in 1922 to the 127 KU students who died in World War I. The stadium is the eighth-oldest stadium in Division I football that still is used today.
		After a halt in stadium improvements for almost four decades, a series of renovations began in 1963 with the expansion of 26 rows on the west stands.
		Memorial Stadium eventually was taken to its current capacity of 50,250.
	hawkzone.cjonline.com /virtualstadium (455 words)

	Memorial Stadium - BR Bullpen
		The fight to replace this stadium, built in the middle of the suburbs of Baltimore, MD, began in the mid-1970's, when discussion of a possible domed stadium in the area of Camden Yards was talked about.
		The stadium the Orioles left behind - "Thank yoooouuu" was heard for the last time at Memorial Stadium on October 6, 1991 - lasted a little bit longer as a ballpark – the Bowie Baysox played their Eastern League home games here until their new park was finished in 1994.
		The stadium was temporary home to the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL (formerly known as the Cleveland Browns) through 1997.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Memorial_Stadium (612 words)

	Stadiums of the NFL-Memorial Stadium-Baltimore Colts/Ravens
		Memorial Stadium was a great place to watch a baseball game, but an terrible place to watch football.
		Memorial Stadium remained vacant for the rest of its existence.
		Stadiums of the NFL is not associated with the National Football League or any team mentioned.
	www.stadiumsofnfl.com /past/MemorialStadium.htm (625 words)

	Clem's Baseball ~ Memorial Stadium
		Memorial Stadium was originally a single-deck bowl built on the site of an old football stadium -- Venable Stadium, which was built in 1922.
		It was one of the last stadiums with such supporting columns, which put fans sitting the upper decks closer to the diamond than is the case with virtually all newer stadiums.
		Memorial Stadium was the first "baseball" stadium without any roof, which meant that fans in the upper decks really suffered on hot summer days.
	www.andrewclem.com /Baseball/MemorialStadium.html (1028 words)

	Memorial Stadium (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Memorial Stadium on the University of Nebraska campus in Lincoln commemorates the service men and women of World War I. It was constructed without state funding and was financed by pledges made by university students, staff, alumni, and boosters.
		The Nebraska Soldiers and Sailors Memorial was projected to be an impressive complex with a museum, stadium, gymnasium, and an assembly room for veterans' gatherings.
		Memorial Stadium was dedicated a few days later on October 20 at the homecoming game with the University of Kansas.
	www.nebraskahistory.org /publish/publicat/timeline/memorial_stadium.htm (397 words)

	Husker Stadium Posters - Buy Nebraska Memorial Stadium Pictures
		Originally built in 1923 and named to honor service men that have served and died for their country, Memorial Stadium has undergone many changes and has been the host to many great games over the years.
		In all the games that have been played through the years one thing has remained constant, Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, NE is one of the most beautiful stadiums in the country proving there is no place like Nebraska.
		During classic battles in the 70's and 80's with Oklahoma the Friday after Thanksgiving, the entire country turned its attention to Memorial Stadium.
	www.finestofnebraska.com /husker-stadium.html (295 words)

	Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium at Owen Field
		The 16,000-seat stadium cost approximately $293,000 and was named Oklahoma Memorial Stadium to honor University-associated persons who died in World War I. Stands on the east side of the stadium were added in time for the 1929 season.
		The north end of the stadium was also enclosed in 1957, green grandstand bleachers were added to the south end of the enabling the stadium to hold 61, 826 fans.
		Stadium is renamed to The Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
	football.ballparks.com /NCAA/Big12/Oklahoma (2232 words)

	Memorial Stadium - Huskers.com—Nebraska Athletics Official Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With renovations for the 2000 season, Memorial Stadium's capacity was reduced by 113 seats to 73,918, which was down from the 74,031-seat capacity in 1999 but up from the 72,700 in 1998.
		The stadium was named Memorial Stadium to honor all Nebraskans who served in the Civil and Spanish-American Wars; the 751 Nebraskans who died in World War I; the 3,839 in World War II; the 225 in Korea; and the 422 in Vietnam.
		The renovations raised the capacity of Memorial Stadium from 72,700 to 73,918.
	www.huskers.com /ViewArticle.dbml?DB_MENU_ID=325&SPSID=181&SPID=41&DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=734 (908 words)

	www.MackBrown-TexasFootball.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A three-year conversion of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium into a state-of-the-art facility set to take UT into the 21st century in keeping with The University’s Master Plan was completed in 1999.
		It was part of a $90 million-plus project that included removal of the artificial turf from the football stadium, the construction of Frank Denius Fields, the Red and Charlene McCombs Softball Field, the Mike A. Myers Track and Soccer Stadium and extensive remodeling of Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium/Jamail Field and the Moncrief-Neuhaus Athletics Complex.
		The final phase of the construction began shortly after the 1998 season ended, when the 75-year-old stadium floor was excavated to a depth of six feet to allow a reconfiguration and addition of seats and the removal of the track to provide a more intimate football setting.
	www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com /pages/superstadium.html (590 words)

	memorial stadium (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Memorial stadium was used for more than baseball and college and professional football: it saw Easter Sunday services, fireworks shows, marching band contests, auto thrill shows, rodeos, and high school football games.
		The debate was primarily between the state stadium authority, which wanted to attract more tourists to the city, and the common people of the city who had grown to love the stadium, despite of its faults.
		The Coalition to Preserve and Redevelop Memorial Stadium is a group of citizens who gathered 1269 residents of the neighborhoods around the stadium to sign a petition that they presented to Mayor Martin O'Malley.
	www.angelfire.com /celeb/gettincrunkwitjc/paper.html (2632 words)

	Memorial Stadium
		Third, in memorial Stadium, if you had tickets in the first five or six rows off of the field, you couldn't even see over the heads of the players on the bench.
		Those defenders of Memorial Stadium are waging an eleventh-hour campaign to save it, and many have placed their hopes in the revival of a Johns Hopkins University plan to develop a research park on the site, using the old stadium as its centerpiece.
		In October, 2000, a public sale and auction was held at Memorial Stadium affording lifelong Baltimore Sports fans an opportunity to obtain a special memento of the grand old stadium and generating revenues to offset demolition costs.
	football.ballparks.com /NFL/BaltimoreColts (3327 words)

	Facilities - The University of Kansas Jayhawks - Official Athletic Site
		Recognized as the first stadium built on a college campus west of the Mississippi River, Memorial Stadium is the seventh oldest collegiate stadium in the nation.
		Memorial Stadium is dedicated to the University of Kansas students who fought and died in World War I. After playing its first two years of intercollegiate football (1890-91) in old Central Park on Massachusetts Street, Kansas built its first football field in 1892.
		The third artificial surface in the stadium's history was added during the summer of 1990 with the installation of an AstroTurf field.
	kuathletics.cstv.com /facilities/kan-memorial-stadium.html (958 words)

	Memorial Stadium
		The UT student body decided to dedicate the stadium in honor of the 198,520 Texans -- 5,280 of whom lost their lives -- who fought in World War I. A statue, representing the figure of democracy, was later placed atop the north end zone seats of the stadium.
		On Veterans Recognition Day 1996, the stadium was rededicated once again to veterans of all wars in an effort to honor the memory of those who fought valiantly to preserve freedom.
		The charge of the committee is to forever dedicate the stadium in the memory of, and in honor of, UT students and alumni who paid the supreme price by giving their lives for their country.
	users.california.com /~csuppes/NCAA/Big12/Texas/index.htm (1207 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium
		RFK was the first major stadium designed specifically as a multisport facility for both football and baseball - subsequent facilities have been adjusted for this problem in order to be able to change their seating configuration much more quickly and at a lower cost.
		RFK Stadium was home for 36 seasons to the Redskins, whose return to prominence as a football power began the same year (1960) the baseball Senators left the city.
		RFK Stadium has undergone a $13 million renovation, and is planned to be used for a total of three years for the new baseball team, while a $611 million dollar state-of-the-art stadium is built one block north of the Anacostia River at South Capitol Street.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/RFK_Stadium (3382 words)

	Memorial Stadium University of Nebraska Lincoln
		In the fall of 1922, a drive for $430,000 in stadium construction funds was undertaken by faculty, students, alumni and friends of the University of Nebraska.The quota was over subscribed.
		The Stadium was named Memorial Stadium to honor all Nebraskans who served in the Civil and Spanish American Wars; the 751 Nebraskans who died in World War I, the 3,839 in World War II, the 225 in Korea and the 422 in Vietnam.
		A salute to those who lost their lives in the line of duty and for whom Memorial Stadium was built to honor.
	sharkfeet.tripod.com /memorial.htm (298 words)

	War Memorial Stadium \| Little Rock, Arkansas \| History
		A television-quality lighting system and Astroturf were added to the stadium in 1969, along with new layers of artificial grass installed in both 1974 and 1984, however, the stadium returned to natural grass prior to the 1994 football season.
		The War Memorial Stadium press box was voted as “the best in the nation” by the Football Writer’s Association in 1974, an honor for both the facility and its services.
		The historic signage on the east and west sides of War Memorial Stadium began restorations in 2004 (see photo) as an initiative from the Little Rock Civitan Club, a local volunteer community-service and civic organization with members that work the concessions on the southwest corner of the stadium at all home Razorback Games.
	www.state.ar.us /wms/history.html (0 words)

	The Last Season-The Life and Demolition of Memorial Stadium
		Charles Cohen and Joseph Mathew thought it would be fun, taking a video camera to the final sell-off at Memorial Stadium, when the seats and the signs and the bricks and anything else that could be pried up became fair game for anyone with an active credit card or an open checkbook.
		It's a tale of politicians who rarely seemed able to agree on anything, of a community desperate to both preserve its past and make way for its future, of war veterans who felt slighted by the seeming disregard planners had for what was designed as a monument to their bravery and sacrifice.
		Without any advance notice, the last vestige of Memorial Stadium, home to Baltimore's pro sports teams from 1954 to 1997, was pulled down in the early part of this year.
	www.memorialstadium.org /project_files/reviews.html (733 words)

	Memorial Stadium's words have new site, life - The Washington Times: Metropolitan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Because of the city's sentimental connection to Memorial Stadium, some criticized the project as a memorial to the stadium rather than to veterans, but Mr.
		The scope of the new memorial is broader.
		The people of Baltimore dedicated Memorial Stadium to the veterans of World Wars I and II and built it in the heart of a city neighborhood.
	www.washtimes.com /metro/20030526-103959-2897r.htm (746 words)

	Maryland Newsline - Business & Tech - Memorial Stadium Timeline
		Memorial Stadium is being razed by a wrecking ball.
		The board resolves to adopt the name "Memorial Stadium." A 116-foot-tall facade will be placed in front of the stadium to honor veterans.
		The stadium is scheduled to be destroyed by September to make way for Stadium Place, billed as an affordable retirement community.
	www.newsline.umd.edu /business/memorialstadium/memorialstadiumtimeline051501.htm (390 words)

	Memorial Stadium and Frank Howard Field (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Clemson Memorial Stadium is named for the many Clemson alumni who have served in the U.S. military.
		The stadium was opened on September 19, 1942, against Presbyterian College, with 20,000 in attendance.
		Memorial Stadium is the 11th largest campus stadium in the nation and the largest in the ACC.
	www.clemson.edu /tour/pages/building_site_pages/memorial_stadium.htm (320 words)

	Bristol Rovers \| Club \| THE HOME OF BRISTOL ROVERS
		The Memorial Stadium has been owned by Bristol Rovers since 1998, when it was purchased from the old Bristol Rugby Club, who were in administration at the time.
		This new company, the Memorial Stadium Company Limited, purchased the Memorial Ground for the asking price of £2.3m, thereby saving it from being sold to a pension fund of a distribution company who were bidding for the asset value.
		The total capacity of the Memorial Stadium stands at 11,916, although this figure is reduced to 11,724 after the segregation of home and away supporters is accounted for.
	www.bristolrovers.premiumtv.co.uk /page/Stadium/0,,10328,00.html (669 words)

	Tribute to Memorial Stadium - B-More Ghosts
		Despite its intention as a memorial to those who had served the country in all wars, veterans groups allowed for the demolition of the facade with a mere promise of the construction of a new smaller memorial between the two new Camden Yards stadiums.
		The final plan selected struck a compromise where the imposing Southern facade of the stadium be spared, with a retirement community built about the rest of the grounds, to be called "Stadium Place." The plan seemed to satisfy everyone involved, from the Veterans groups and the community, to the developers and politicians.
		Millions had been spent demolishing the "wings" of the stadium while securing and stabilizing the center facade, when abruptly, it was decided to demolish the facade as well, with the simple vague promise of placing a memorial along the walkway between the two Camden Yards nouveax stadiums.
	www.btco.net /ghosts/Buildings/memstad/memstad.html (660 words)

	Football - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium - SoonerSports.com - Official Site of the Oklahoma Sooners
		A clock tower on the north side of the stadium and expansive tree-lined plazas on the northwest, northeast and southeast corners of the stadium were special features of the new design.
		Renovations to the Santee Lounge, restroom and concessions facilities and a new brick facade on the west side further enhanced Oklahoma Memorial Stadium's reputation as one of the finest venues in all of college football.
		The 16,000-seat Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, named in honor of University personnel who died in World War I, was erected at a cost of approximately $293,000.
	www.soonersports.com /ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&SPORT_TAB_SEL=01&DB_OEM_ID=300&KEY=&ATCLID=25219&SPID=190&SPSID=4478 (955 words)

	College Gridirons-Memorial Stadium-Illinois Fighting Illini
		Champaign, IL Home of the University of Illinois Fighting Illini for nearly eighty years, Memorial Stadium was the home of the Chicago Bears for the 2002 NFL season.
		In 1923, contributions of nearly $1.7 million were made to the University of Illinois in order to build a new stadium, to honor men and women who fought during World War I. The stadium was completed by November 3, 1923 and named Memorial Stadium.
		Originally, Memorial Stadium had a grass field, but in 1974 the grass was replaced with Astroturf.
	www.collegegridirons.com /bigten/MemorialStadiumIllinois.htm (290 words)

	Memorial Stadium \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Originally a 31,000-seat stadium used for football and minor-league baseball, Memorial Stadium was built in 1949 to replace Oriole Park (home of the local International League club) which had burned down five years earlier.
		Memorial Stadium's exterior is predominantly a reddish-brown brick, and the home plate end has a tall concrete wall bearing an inscription honoring the city's war dead.
		The stadium’s concession stands served the only crab cakes in the majors, a tradition that has been passed on to its successor, Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/M/Memorial_Stadium.stm (962 words)

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