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	Stanford Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stanford Stadium (capacity 50,000 as of 2006) is a stadium on the Stanford University campus.
		Built partly in competition with the University of California, Berkeley to see who could build a football stadium first, Stanford Stadium was built in four months and opened its gates on November 19, 1921.
		Other high profile events hosted at Stanford Stadium include Super Bowl XIX in 1985 and international soccer matches for the 1984 Summer Olympics, and the 1994 World Cup.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanford_Stadium (307 words)

	Stanford, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stanford is an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County and is adjacent to the city of Palo Alto.
		Stanford, California is a valid postal address, and has its own post office and zip codes: 94305 (campus buildings) and 94309 (post-office boxes).
		Super Bowl XIX, in 1985, was held at Stanford Stadium.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanford,_California (566 words)

	Stanford Stadium
		Stanford Stadium, the largest privately owned college football facility in the United States, has been the home of Cardinal football and track and field for more than 70 years.
		The eyes of the world were again focused on Stanford Stadium in the summer of 1994 as the largest sporting event in the world came to The Farm.
		It is composed of a mixture of rye and bermuda grass.
	users.california.com /~csuppes/NCAA/Pac10/Stanford/index.htm (1333 words)

	Stanford University: Campus Sites - Stadium
		The landmark for Stanford athletics may well be the 85,500-seat Stanford Stadium, the site of the university's Commencement ceremony and home of Stanford Cardinal football.
		Construction of Stanford Stadium in the early 1920s was fueled by a competition with the University of California at Berkeley to see which school could complete its stadium first.
		Stanford has won the Sears Directors Cup, awarded to the most successful Division I athletic program, the last seven years, and Cardinal teams have won a total of 79 NCAA championships, second best in the nation.
	www.stanford.edu /home/welcome/campus/stadium.html (559 words)

	Stanford University Cardinal \| Facilities \| An Official Athletic Site
		Stanford Stanford Stadium was originally built in 1921 at a cost of $573,470 and a capacity of 60,000.
		Stanford Stadium has reserved seats for guests with disabilities both on the west and south sides of the stadium.
		Stanford Stadium has instituted new security policies and is encouraging patrons to allow extra time for entry into the venue.
	gostanford.cstv.com /facilities/stan-stadium.html (2386 words)

	Stanford University: Athletics
		Stanford Stadium, the 14-court Taube Family Tennis Stadium and the four-pool Avery Aquatic Center are just three of the premier athletic facilities on Stanford's campus.
		Cardinal has been the color of Stanford athletic teams since 1892 and was adopted in 1972 as the official name for Stanford sports.
		Check in on the major renovation of Stanford Stadium, currently under way and scheduled to be completed for the 2006 football season.
	www.stanford.edu /home/athletics (302 words)

	Trustees Approve Plan For The New Stanford Stadium ::
		Stanford, Calif. - The university's Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved a plan to re-build Stanford Stadium to make it a more intimate sporting venue with modern amenities.
		A new stadium has been a high priority for Athletic Department and university officials, especially after a 2002 feasibility study indicated that much of the 84-year-old stadium's infrastructure had reached the end of its service life.
		There are many football games during which the stadium appears cavernous and less than half full, the study noted, and modern stadium criteria have trended toward smaller capacities closer to the action.
	gostanford.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/060705aaa.html (515 words)

	.: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Archives
		Stanford made the first dramatic move to revive its failing football program last December by hiring coach Walt Harris away from the University of Pittsburgh to replace the outmatched Buddy Teevens, who was 10-23 in three seasons on The Farm.
		Darkins, who wasn’t admitted to Stanford despite a 3.9 high school grade-point average and SAT scores in excess of 1,300, said Teevens’ staff pitched the possibility of a new venue on his visit.
		Darkins said the stadium was a major recruiting turnoff that compared poorly to the Cardinal’s other football facilities, which he described as excellent.
	www.gazettetimes.com /articles/2005/11/11/sports/colleges/college1.txt (1177 words)

	Palo Alto Online
		Stanford (5-6) finished less than a minute away from a bowl game; a minute that seemed so distant at the start of the season, when the Cardinal was predicted to finish ninth in the Pac-10.
		Stanford Stadium was constructed in 1921 and designed with engineering techniques unearthed at 2,000-year-old amphitheaters in Pomeii.
		The new stadium, expected to be completed in time for the start of the 2006 football season, will have 30,000 fewer seats, better sightlines, more restrooms and concessions, and better access.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /news/show_story.php?id=2057 (1222 words)

	Anderson Sports
		Stanford could have done what USC did with the Los Angeles Coliseum: take out the track; shift the field toward one end, thereby effectively bringing many (or maybe most) seats closer to the game; and cover up the seats in the opposite end zone.
		Stanford Stadium evoked (as its memory will continue to evoke) a time when the Bay Area's population was so, so much smaller and yet the support for the team was such that a 90,000-seat stadium was built for its fans to come and cheer in!
		Stanford is throwing in the towel on a great old stadium and, with it, the hope of reclaiming the days when its greatness extended beyond academic reputation.
	www.andersonsports.com /football/ACF_stan.html (592 words)

	For Stanford Stadium, officials hope smaller is better (June 10, 2005)
		Stanford University thinks the crowds will be bigger and better than ever for football games at a downsized, more intimate stadium.
		The Olympic Trials were held at Stanford in 1960, and the stadium was host to sellout crowds for preliminary Olympic soccer matches in 1984, the men's World Cup in 1994, and the women's World Cup in 1999.
		Stanford will not sell naming rights to the stadium, though the school is considering selling naming rights within the stadium.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/2005/2005_06_10.stadium10amb.shtml (908 words)

	Stanford Stadium: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stanford Stadium (capacity 85,500) is the football American football quick summary:
		A modern stadium (plural stadiums, latin plural stadia) is a place, or venue, for outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field...
		The leland stanford junior university, commonly known as stanford university, is a privately-funded american university in stanford, california....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stanford_stadium.htm (179 words)

	UC Davis: Spotlight: Ags stun Stanford
		On Saturday night at Stanford Stadium, the Aggies shocked most of the pundits and all of the Cardinal — but not themselves or their roaring, cheering, ultimately hoarse fans.
		We're in Stanford Stadium and we're about to have a game-winning drive." And they did, using a play that hadn't even been practiced during the week, when Blaise Smith caught a three-yard pass from Grant in those last eight seconds.
		The Stanford team, barely able to extend the customary post-game congratulations to their UC Davis opponents, looked dazed and confused as they wandered off the field to the locker room.
	www.ucdavis.edu /spotlight/0905/ags_stun_stanford.html (413 words)

	A Farm-fresh solution / Stanford aims for more intimacy -- and noise -- with renovation
		While the 49ers apologize their way back to public support for a stadium deal and Cal toils in the early stages of its plan to rebuild Memorial Stadium, Stanford has become the unexpected front-runner in the race for a state-of-the-art football facility.
		Stanford athletic department officials unveiled details of the proposed renovation of Stanford Stadium on Tuesday, one day after receiving approval from the university's Board of Trustees.
		At a price of $85 million, Stanford Stadium will become a more intimate venue with better sightlines, improved amenities and the kind of college football atmosphere currently lacking in the antiquated, cavernous facility that hasn't held a capacity crowd since 1997.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/08/STANFORD.TMP (970 words)

	Global Exchange : stanford.html
		Stanford University is now taking the lead in exploring ways to reverse the trend of growing commercialism in college athletic programs.
		Stanford officials have been looking into the possibility of scaling back on some contracts with Nike, Pepsi-Cola and other corporate sponsors of its teams.
		The ideal of college athletics, emphasized Stanford's Casper, is supposed to be students engaging in the spirit of amateur competition.
	www.globalexchange.org /economy/corporations/nike/stanford.html (863 words)

	College Football News Forum - Cal will always be a second rate football power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stanford Stadium was completed in four months, just in time for the 1921 Big Game.
		Stanford is a private school and can move more rapidly without filling out as many forms and getting the approval of as many associate vice-chancellors.
		Stanford is the more gentrified school by reputation, but Cal has three times as many graduates -- and some of them are millionaires, too.
	www.collegefootballnews.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20338&whichpage=1 (1212 words)

	College Gridirons-Stanford Stadium-Stanford Cardinals
		The stadium was built and completed when the Cardinals played the Golden Bears on November 19, 1921.
		A new press box was added at Stanford Stadium in 1960 and tunnel entrances were constructed on the west side.
		In August 2005, plans were announced to demolish Stanford Stadium immediately after the 2005 season and replace it with a 50,000 seat stadium on the same site.
	www.collegegridirons.com /pac10/StanfordStadium.htm (295 words)

	Stanford Stadium Tickets - Toll-Free 866-897-TIXS(8497) StageDoorTickets.com, Stanford ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stadium is a Roman word which referred to a unit of measure, approximately 200 meters in length.
		Stadiums built specifically for some form of football are quite common.
		The spectator areas of a stadium are often referred to as terraces, especially in the United Kingdom.
	www.stagedoortickets.com /tickets.asp?next_plugin=Venue&plugin_param=Stanford+Stadium (603 words)

	Stanford Stadium to get a face-lift
		A plan to renovate antiquated Stanford Stadium will be finished within the first three months of the new year, according to sources close to the school's athletic department.
		The stadium as it is has a capacity of 85,500, the largest privately- owned college football facility in the country.
		A conservative approach to the stadium situation would be in keeping with Stanford's approach to paying its football coach, which is to pay him less than the going rate for the Pac-10.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/12/22/SPGIDAFFST1.DTL (742 words)

	Stanford Football Announces 2006 Schedule :: Grand Opening of New Stadium Scheduled for September 16
		The Grand Opening of the New Stanford Stadium is scheduled for September 16, 2006 when the Cardinal hosts Navy in Stanford's home opener.
		Also, Stanford and San Jose State have a long tradition of playing football against one another and it's appropriate to have a game at Spartan Stadium on occasion," he said.
		Stanford will open the 2006 season with a road game at Oregon in a key Pacific-10 Conference matchup on September 2.
	www.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/stories/022306aah.html (411 words)

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		Stanford, at 5-6, with a fourth straight losing season, is not one of the best teams but a team that did what it could with what it had, and maybe that's all anyone can ask.
		Not very large in a stadium of 85,000, which probably is part of the reason the new Stanford Stadium to open next season will have a capacity of only 55,000.
		He saw what we all saw, a game in which Stanford showed plenty of courage but didn't show much offense — which was to be expected — or much defense.
	www.insidebayarea.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=3256643 (715 words)

	Definition of Stanford Stadium
		Postcard of Stanford Stadium, circa 1950, showing the site during a Big Game versus UC Berkeley.
		Stanford Stadium (capacity 85,500) is the football stadium of Stanford University.
		The stadium hosted Super Bowl XIX, as well as soccer matches in the 1984 Summer Olympics, the 1994 World Cup, and the 1999 Women's World Cup.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Stanford_Stadium (133 words)

	johnnyroadtrip.com - Stanford Stadium and Maples Pavilion
		The campus is located in Stanford, just south of Palo Alto, 31 miles southeast of San Francisco and 15 miles west of San Jose.
		The stadium was built in 1921 and seats a whopping 85,500.
		There is a Caltrain station located across from Stanford Stadium if you don't want to drive to the game.
	www.johnnyroadtrip.com /cities/sanfrancisco/stanfordstadiums.htm (169 words)

	caltrain.com - News
		Stanford football fans can score a transit touchdown by taking Caltrain to home games at the Stanford Stadium.
		Caltrain has made Stanford part of its game plan for all six home games; trains will begin stopping at the stadium train station approximately two hours before kickoff.
		Since there are no ticket vending machines at the Stanford station, riders are advised to purchase a Caltrain Day Pass at their departure station before boarding the train to go to the game.
	www.caltrain.com /news_2005_9_12_stanford_football.html (214 words)

	PRESS RELEASE Stanford Athletics Announces 2006 Ticket Sales and Inaugural Priority Seating Program for the New ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"The Stanford Stadium project is obviously one of the most important capital projects in Stanford history," said Bill Walsh, The Jaquish and Kenninger Director of Athletics.
		The PSP was designed to reward long-time supporters of Stanford football and recognize new donors for their financial contribution to support student-athletes.
		Starting February 1, prospective season ticket buyers will be given an opportunity to preview sightlines from any seat in the new Stanford Stadium with the help of a new virtual tour, which can be found at www.stanfordstadium.com.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=107967 (832 words)

	The inside dirt / Stanford Stadium remodel gets down to earth
		Three Stanford engineering professors, inspired by the architecture of amphitheaters in Pompeii, Italy, sunk the stadium into a berm of earth.
		The stadium eventually had 85,500 seats, and was home to such historic events as Herbert Hoover's acceptance of the Republican presidential nomination in 1928, the 1985 Super Bowl and the 1994 World Cup.
		Because the stadium is away from the center of campus and isolated from residential areas, the traffic and noise impacts from destruction and construction are expected to be minimal.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/12/03/SPG6EG24MR1.DTL (1083 words)

	Bay Area Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stanford officials say we may be able to run the stairs in the new stadium and I hope we will.
		A valiant Stanford performance against single wing tailback Terry Baker and the Beavers of Oregon State before a paltry crowd of 7,000 on a rainy day at Stanford Stadium in November 1960 is especially memorable.
		The 1968 USC game at Stanford, where from high in the north end zone, I watched O. Simpson be a one-man wrecking crew in defeating Stanford 27-24 and dash Stanford’s Rose Bowl dream for that year.
	blogs.mercurynews.com /bay_area_sports/2005/11/what_are_your_s.html (3612 words)

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