Engineering Memory of the Month

Stadium construction

The Big Game comes to campus this year on Nov. 19 and will rock a stadium that is still very much the same building erected in 1921, using the designs of then structural engineering Professor Charles B. Wing. By the time the next Big Game is played in Palo Alto, university administrators hope Stanford will have finished a huge renovation project, eliminating 30,000 seats, bringing existing seats closer to the action, and renovating all of the stadium's aging facilities.

You just know a stadium is old when a picture of its construction depicts dozens of horses and only a couple of horseless machines. Still, Wing and the horses got the job done. The stadium cost only $211,346 to build. The proposed renovation approved in June 2005 will cost an estimated $85 million.

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