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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  Nippert Stadium
The 10,000 new seats will be affixed to the aluminum bleacher seats in the lower bowl section of Nippert Stadium at a cost to the university of $400,000, said Paul Klaczak, UC associate athletic director.
The stadium's early-century brickwork was preserved in the design of the renovation, and with the combination of wrought iron gates and trim, Nippert projects the comfortable old-time stadium charm and appeal which have made new facilities such as Camden Yards attractive sports facilities.
The stadium's founder was Arch Carson, who played a significant role in starting football on the UC campus in 1885 as captain and principle organizer of Cincinnati's first football teams.
football.ballparks.com /NCAA/ConfUSA/Cincinnati   (783 words)

  
 College Gridirons-Nippert Stadium-Cincinnati Bearcats
The stadium was named after Gamble’s grandson, Jimmy Nippert, who died from a spike wound while playing football for the Bearcats.
The first of several improvements and expansions to Nippert Stadium came before the 1936 season when the field was lowered 12 feet allowing for the seating capacity to be increased to 24,000.
Over the years, Nippert Stadium has been a nice quaint place for college football and will continue to be in the future.
www.collegegridirons.com /bigeast/NippertStadium.htm   (316 words)

  
 Stadium View Offers Looks and Lunch
The Stadium View Café, one of two restaurants celebrating their grand opening Jan. 30 in UC’s state-of-the art Campus Recreation Center Complex, is strictly a lunch venue, and oh, what a view it will offer.
Kevin Grace, university historian, says the stadium was one of the earliest college venues to have lights on the field — and the reason is linked to another facet of UC’s rich history.
Stadium View Café, the restaurant that holds a visual link to UC’s tradition and transformation, offers soups, salads, Sunset Strips (chicken), subs and sandwiches and sweets with prices averaging around $4.
www.uc.edu /news/NR.asp?id=3513   (263 words)

  
 Nippert Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio is the University of Cincinnati's football stadium, home to their Bearcats football team in rudimentary form since 1902, and as a complete stadium since 1924.
In 1916, construction began in sections of a brick and concrete structure to replace the wooden stands and continued for several seasons as funds were raised.
Nippert's grandfather, James N. Gamble of Procter and Gamble, donated the required funds to complete the stadium.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nippert_Stadium   (407 words)

  
 Paul Brown Stadium
The stadium project on Cincinnati's river front employed as many as 1,000 workers daily during construction up until June 2000 when the Bengals' coaches and staff moved into their new 65,600-seat stadium.
The stadium's asymmetrical, open-ended design offers views of the downtown skyline and the riverfront.  In addition, almost 70% of the seats are along the sidelines providing close-to-the-action sight lines – even from upper-level luxury boxes and low-tiered end zones.
The roof is in the shape of a swoosh, the signature on the Paul Brown Stadium.
users.california.com /~csuppes/NFL/CincinnatiBengals/newindex.htm   (1471 words)

  
 Nippert Stadium Seating Chart, Nippert Stadium Tickets, Nippert Stadium Maps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Originally the stadium was called Carson field, Arch Carson was captain of the football team in 1895 and then in 1901 directed the University of Cincinnati’s efforts in construction of the field that would bare his name.
Today Nippert stadium is the sixth oldest Division 1-A or 1-AA stadium and fourth oldest gridiron in use within the United States.
Cincinnati Bearcat football is proud to boast an all-time record of 258-153-13 at Nippert stadium.
www.gotickets.com /venues/oh/nippert_stadium.php   (408 words)

  
 Sentencing Hearing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Nippert Collection is rich in history, adding profundity to the library's own 19th and early 20th century documents.
The Bas relief plaque at the south end of Nippert Stadium and the structure commemorate him.
Nippert's uncle, Carl L. Nippert, class of 1891, was a Hamilton County (OH) probate judge.
www.law.uc.edu /current/nippertdonation/index.html   (1207 words)

  
 Take a BrainSip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
There are only six major college football stadiums still in use older than Nippert Stadium: Penns Franklin Field (1895), Harvard Stadium (1903), Georgia Tech's Bobby Dodd/Grant Field (1914), Mississippi States Scott Field (1914), the Yale Bowl, and Cornells Schoellkopf Stadium (1915).
Nippert's grandfather, James N. Gamble of Proctor and Gamble, donated the required funds to complete the stadium.
The Stadium also served as home for the American Football League expansion team, the Cincinnati Bengals, in 1968 and 1969, while their eventual permanent home at Riverfront Stadium was being constructed.
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 Nippert Stadium's new turf 'like grass'
The Cincinnati Bearcats will not be playing in a new stadium when they open their 2000 football season, but they will have the pleasure of competing on a new field.
UC is tearing up the old artificial turf at Nippert Stadium and replacing it with FieldTurf, a new form of artificial turf the school believes will be a significant improvement.
A conversion to natural grass is not a realistic option for Nippert because of its multiple uses by the UC community.
www.enquirer.com /bearcats/2000/05/19/uc_nippert_stadiums_new.html   (281 words)

  
 Stadium Names - BuckeyePlanet Ohio State Forums
Formerly known as Parker Stadium, the name was changed in 1999 in honor of the family that made a seven-figure donation to the Beaver athletic department.
Beaver was a local 19th century lawyer at the onset of the Civil War, who enlisted as a second lieutenant in the Union Army and ascended to the rank of brigadier general.* Following his discharge in 1864, he served as a superior court judge, governor of Pennsylvania and president of the university's Board of Trustees.
The stadium bears the name of its two primary benefactors.* In 1972, Rice gave $1 million to the university for a stadium renovation project.* The late Eccles, through his foundation, contributed $10 million in 1997 toward the stadium as it was receiving a facelift for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
www.buckeyeplanet.com /forum/showthread.php?t=864   (2591 words)

  
 Raymond James Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Raymond James Stadium was built primarily to replace the aging Houlihan's Stadium, formerly located adjacent to the property.
In 2003, the corner billboards in the stadium were replaced with rotating trilon billboards.
Although there are no official nicknames, the stadium is sometimes referred to as "Ray Jay", "The New Sombrero" (a spinoff of the former Bucs' home, as coined by Chris Berman of ESPN), or humorously by local residents as "the CITS", which stands for the Community Investment Tax Stadium.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raymond_James_Stadium   (879 words)

  
 Southern Miss sports - The Clarion-Ledger
Fans of football in the South can reel off the names of many of the stadiums that are regular killing floors for visitors: Bryant-Denny in Tuscaloosa; Sanford in Athens, Ga.; Doak Campbell in Tallahassee, Fla.; Orange Bowl in Miami; Ben Hill Griffin in Gainesville, Fla.; Neyland in Knoxville; and Tiger in Baton Rouge.
Nippert Stadium opened in 1902, and since then, the campus has closed in around it.
The university's physical plant sits just off the edge of one end zone, belching steam and smoke that is carried away by a usually stiff breeze blowing in and down from the closed end of the stadium.
www.clarionledger.com /news/0310/02/usm01.html   (522 words)

  
 Civil Engineering Magazine - May 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Originally conceived by the university to house student recreational facilities, the center was ultimately expanded in concept to include recreational and fitness facilities, student housing, dining facilities, classrooms, integral seating, and a new scoreboard for the adjacent Nippert Stadium and is in essence five buildings in one.
In addition to the integrated precast seating for the stadium, a new scoreboard structure was built that supports the scoreboard itself, several advertising spaces, and a walkway connecting the top level of the precast seating with the adjacent Shoemaker Center and Varsity Village Complex.
The exterior connector/bridge at the top level of the precast seating area for the football stadium also affords visitors access to the Recreation Center Marche, a two-story, full-service campus dining facility spanning from the football stadium to the MainStreet plaza on the north side and providing access to the recreational areas of the structure.
www.pubs.asce.org /ceonline/ceonline06/0506feat.html   (5519 words)

  
 The Official Home of Eastern Kentucky University Athletics
A large number of EKU fans are expected to descend on Cincinnati’s Nippert Stadium for the September 2 tussle between the Colonels and Bearcats.
Nippert Stadium is located on UC's main campus in Clifton, and is conveniently accessed from numerous points in the city.
Alcohol: Beer may be purchased inside the stadium until the middle of the third quarter.
www.ekusports.com /article.asp?articleid=80005   (804 words)

  
 Into the University of Cincinnati Bearcats' restricted areas: locker room, catwalks, press box and indoor batting cages.
The three-story press box over the west side of Nippert Stadium provides the perfect unobstructed view of the entire field and is the ideal place to watch plays develop.
Nippert's press box was added to the stadium in 1991, then was remodeled and renamed the John and Dorothy Hermanies Press Box in 2000.
John Hermanies, JD '48, is a longtime supporter of the UC sports program and a former member of the UC Board of Trustees and a contributor of $1.5 million to Varsity Village.
www.magazine.uc.edu /0105/sports.htm   (688 words)

  
 MyHometownOhio :: Historic Stadiums Dot the State
Nippert was constructed between 1916 and 1924, and was named for the grandson of a founder of Proctor and Gamble, who died of injuries received during a game.
The “newest” stadium in this trio, Ohio Stadium was opened in 1922, and since that time has welcomed over 30 million rabid fans to watch one of college football’s most storied programs.
Ohio Stadium was extensively renovated a few years ago, however an effort was made to keep a great deal of the original stadium intact.
myhometownohio.blogharbor.com /blog/_archives/2006/8/31/2282300.html   (514 words)

  
 koch1011
One benefit of attending a University of Cincinnati football game is you don't have to leave the house too early, so you have plenty of time to rake the leaves.
The team was bad, the stadium was worse and there was nothing to play for.
Nippert Stadium has been fixed and enlarged into an attractive facility.
www.cincypost.com /sports/1997/koch101197.html   (686 words)

  
 College Tour - Nippert Stadium / Rhodes Hall - University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, College of Engineering, ...
College Tour - Nippert Stadium / Rhodes Hall - University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, College of Engineering, Engineering.
Located just north of Nippert Stadium, Rhodes Hall is the largest of the three primary engineering buildings.
Dedicated in 1971 and built at a cost of $4.5 million, it was named after Governor James A. Rhodes.
uceng.uc.edu /welcome/collegetour/nippert.php3   (85 words)

  
 Cincinnati Bengals (1968-Present)
A at Nippert Stadium on the campus of University of Cincinnati the Bengals played their first home game beating the Denver Broncos 24-10.
On October 2nd history was made at Riverfront Stadium, when Dave Shula and the Bengals faced Don Shula's Miami Dolphins in the first father-son coaching match up in NFL history.
Facing the Steelers again in the playoffs Paul Brown Stadium was in a festival like atmosphere for the first Bengals playoff game in 15 years.
www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nfl/cincy/bengals.html   (4724 words)

  
 University of Cincinnati: Cincinnati Horizons Making the List issue, UC Sports, page 2.
The University of Cincinnati athletics complex is undergoing an $80 million enhancement that will include an eight-story athletics center, a sports museum, a relocated baseball stadium, a tennis center, a renovated track and soccer venue, and a new boathouse for rowing on the Licking River.
UC broke ground on the project in May. The baseball stadium is scheduled to open in ’04, and the remainder of the project is scheduled for completion in the ’05-06 academic year.
The focal point of Shoemaker Center is the Fifth Third Arena, the 13,176-seat basketball and volleyball venue, which includes an expansive score/video board and a restaurant overlooking the court.
www.magazine.uc.edu /1103/sports2.htm   (699 words)

  
 News - Friends helping friends - Cincinnati Bengals
In the family room is a framed and signed No. 85 jersey of Chad Johnson amid the autographed pictures of Jess Phillips and Paul Robinson that used to hang in his dad’s barbershop on Plainville Road in Madison Place.
Then it was left to Jay and his father, but his dad never made it past the losing of the Homer Rice years and he quit Sundays in disgust to work on the family farm.
One of the first things he remembers is Tim Krumrie roaring out of the stadium on a motorcycle after his final game and on the Forest Hills youth football questionnaire he wrote down Corey Dillon and Bengals for his favorite player and team back in an era when a lot of kids didn’t.
www.bengals.com /news/news.asp?story_id=5768   (1677 words)

  
 Venue Schedule for Nippert Stadium from TicketsUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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www.ticketsus.com /venues/Nippert_Stadium.htm   (151 words)

  
 Scout.com: News & Notes EKU
The Bearcats are only one weekend away from taking the field at Nippert Stadium looking for their first victory of the 2006 season.
As a former assistant coach at Louisville, Hope knows his team will be in for a battle when they enter Nippert Stadium.
The Colonels will bring into Nippert Stadium a very solid team on both sides of the ball.
cincinnati.scout.com /2/560548.html   (448 words)

  
 stx112101
When the stadium opened May 15, 1999, an overflow crowd of 24,741 was in attendence.
Xavier preferred Nippert Stadium because of the proximity for Bombers' fans.
The decision was made, with the agreement of both Boylan and Bell, to move to Crew Stadium because St. Xavier had played twice previously at Nippert Stadium.
www.cincypost.com /2001/nov/21/stx112101.html   (532 words)

  
 Scout.com
Nippert Stadium is located on UC’s main campus in
Nippert Stadium is actually one of the oldest stadiums in
Like several other Big East stadiums beer may be purchased inside the stadium until the middle of the third quarter.
syracuse.scout.com /3/TailgateGuideCincinnati.html   (1976 words)

  
 ArchitectureWeek - Design - Recreational Morphing - 2006.0510
One side of the CRC houses grandstands, a restaurant, and locker rooms for Nippert Stadium on one end-zone side.
Moreover, the new building's form seems either a continuation of Nippert or at least a good neighbor, helping to ease a big football stadium into the neighborhood scale.
In fact, the integration of Nippert and the CRC also includes a pedestrian bridge above the seating that will provide pedestrian access through both facilities.
www.architectureweek.com /2006/0510/design_2-2.html   (533 words)

  
 johnnyroadtrip.com - University of Cincinnati Stadiums (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nippert Stadium is one of the oldest stadiums in college football.
The Bearcats have played on the site since 1902, although the current stadium was built in 1924.
The UC basketball team plays it home games at the Shoemaker Center, right next to Nippert Stadium.
www.johnnyroadtrip.com.cob-web.org:8888 /cities/cincinnati/ucstadiums.htm   (100 words)

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