Boone Pickens Stadium
| Boone Pickens Stadium | |
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| "The Boone" | |
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| Football match at Boone Pickens Stadium, 2007 | |
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Lewis Field (1919-2002) |
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| place | Stillwater , Oklahoma |
| Coordinates | 36 ° 7 '33 " N , 97 ° 3' 59" W |
| owner | Oklahoma State University |
| operator | Oklahoma State University |
| start of building | 1919 |
| opening | 1920 |
| Extensions | 1924, 1929, 1947, 1950, 1971, 2009 |
| surface | artificial grass |
| capacity | 60,218 |
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The Boone Pickens Stadium is the football stadium of the Oklahoma State University (OSU) in Stillwater . It is the oldest stadium in the Big 12 Conference and the sixth oldest college football stadium in the United States. It is the venue for the home games of the Oklahoma State Cowboys .
Stadium description and location
The stadium is located in the eastern part of the university campus on Western Hall of Fame Avenue. This can be reached via Interstate 35 and Oklahoma State Highway 51 . The city will provide free parking spaces and shuttle buses on match days.
The square has a size of about 7,000 square meters. The surface is artificial turf from the AstroTurf brand .
The approximately 60,000 spectator seats are located on the south, north and west sides of the stadium. Instead of a fourth grandstand, there is the Athletics Center on the east side of the arena, which also includes the Gallagher-Iba Arena , the university’s basketball hall. There are also fitness rooms, other sports halls, an advice center and a museum. The $ 55 million complex opened in 2000.
history
The stadium as a sports facility
The OSU football team was founded in 1901. Initially, only simple sports fields were available to her, which were named Lewis Field in honor of Dean Lowery Layman Lewis from the 1913/14 season . In 1919, construction of the stadium began at its current location - in the northeast of the campus. The stands of the stadium, which initially held 8,000 spectators, were still made of wood.
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In the years that followed, the arena was expanded several times. In 1924 steel and concrete stands were installed. Renovation work during the 1929/30 season allowed the capacity to be increased to 13,000 places.
After expansions in the late 1940s, there was space for around 39,000 spectators around 1950. With the removal of the cinder track that surrounds the playing field and the associated lowering of the sports field, the capacity could be increased again in 1971. At the same time, artificial turf was laid for the first time.
In 2003 the stadium got its current name, which it owes to T. Boone Pickens , a patron of the university. He was responsible for donating US $ 165 million to the sports department in 2005, which set a record. Further renovations were completed in 2009. Since then, the capacity has been 60,218. During a game against the team from Baylor University from Waco, the stadium was sold out for the first time in 2013.
Other events
Three US Presidents delivered speeches at the stadium: Richard Nixon in 1970, George HW Bush in 1990 and his son George W. Bush in 2006.
Web links
- Boone Pickens Stadium , okstate.com (English)
- Virtual stadium tour, okstatefootball.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Top 10 oldest Football Bowl Subdivision stadiums. National Football League , accessed July 25, 2014 .
- ↑ Big 12 Travel Center - Football. Big 12 Conference, accessed July 25, 2014 .
- ↑ 2012 OSU & Downtown Stillwater Free Game Day Parking. Stillwater, archived from the original on September 12, 2015 ; accessed on July 25, 2014 (English).
- ↑ a b ssquires: Oklahoma State Picks AstroTurf for Boone Pickens Stadium. (No longer available online.) AstroTurf, March 19, 2014, archived from the original on August 8, 2014 ; accessed on July 25, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ BPS Seating Guide. (pdf) Oklahoma State University, accessed July 25, 2014 .
- ^ OSU Athletics Center. Oklahoma State University, archived from the original on April 13, 2015 ; accessed on July 25, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Boone Pickens Stadium, Home of the Oklahoma State Cowboys. (pdf) p. 10 , accessed on July 23, 2014 (English).
- ^ Ryan McNeill: Bush to make presentation to OSU student. In: NewsOK.com . Oklahoma Publishing Company, May 5, 2006, accessed July 25, 2014 .
