Ohio Stadium
| Ohio Stadium | |
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| The Horseshoe The House that Harley built |
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 Columbus , Ohio
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 0 ′ 5.9 ″ N , 83 ° 1 ′ 11 ″ W |
| owner | Ohio State University |
| start of building | 1921 |
| opening | 1922 |
| surface | artificial grass |
| costs | $ 1.34 million |
| capacity | 102,329 seats |
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The Ohio Stadium is a football stadium in Columbus , Ohio . It serves as the venue for the football games of the NCAA team Ohio State Buckeyes . The stadium was added to the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service on March 22, 1974 .
The stadium also served as the home of the major league soccer team Columbus Crew from the formation of the league in 1996 to the opening of the Columbus Crew Stadium in 1999. With a capacity of 102,329, it is the sixth largest sports stadium in the world. It is also used for concerts: U2 , the Rolling Stones , Pink Floyd and Metallica have already played at Ohio Stadium, among others.
The stadium lacks fixed pitch lighting. For night games, temporary lighting is installed.
history
As early as 1913, Ohio Field was unable to accommodate the crowds attracted to the Ohio State Buckeyes football games. A new building was therefore up for discussion. In 1918, the architect Dwight Howard Smith designed a horseshoe-shaped stadium. Fundraising began in October 1920 to fund the project, and pledges of over $ 1 million were received by January 1921, of which $ 975,000 was donated.
The stadium was built in 1922 at a cost of $ 1.34 million. The stadium, with its original capacity of 66,210, was an astronomical size at the time. The first game at the stadium was on October 7, 1922 against Ohio Wesleyan University and drew 25,000 spectators. This left people concerned because the stadium was half empty. At the formal inauguration against Michigan on October 21st, that concern subsided. The attendance is reported as 72,000, but no one is really sure how many people made it into the stadium. This mark was again exceeded in 1925 in the game against Michigan with 90,411 spectators.
In 1923 an athletics track was built around the field. The track and field team used the stadium for many years until 2001 when the Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium opened next door. When Jesse Owens was studying at OSU, he also trained at Ohio Stadium.
Following the 1999 season, a $ 194 million renovation increased audience capacity to 101,568. Artificial turf has been used in the stadium for the first time from 1970 to 1990 and again since 2007. Today's record number of viewers was achieved on September 12, 2009 with 106,033 viewers against the University of Southern California .
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- ↑ espn.go.com: USC Trojans vs. Ohia State Buckeyes - Recap - September 12, 2009 . Retrieved September 25, 2011.