Although old and w/o amenities, the Yale Bowl has the best sight lines for watching a football game. You can be in a crowd of 60,000 people and be at the top of the stadium and you can communicate with people on the ground level outside the stadium
Although the architecture of the Yale Bowl never loses it's uniqueness, the condition of the Bowl itself is flat-out embarrassing. It is a piece of crap. From restrooms to lockerrooms, to concession stands, it brings up the rear in the Ivy League.
Franklin Field is easily the best. It is the only track that legitimately needs to be there because of the annual international track meet, Penn Relays.
Not to mention it was the home of the Eagles until The Vet opened. It was the site of the only championship game that Lombardi lost as head coach when the Eagles beat the Packers for the 1960 title. My uncle had Eagles season tickets in those days and he always said the sightlines at Franklin Field were outstanding.
Harvard Stadium actually influenced the dimensions of American football fields. Around the turn of the century the standard distance from goal line to goal line was 110 yards, the same as with Rugby. However, Harvard Stadium wasn’t quite big enough to accommodate a field that large, so it was truncated somewhat. Since Harvard, at the time, was such a powerhouse, other schools followed their lead, and the smaller dimensions were soon standardized. Incidentally, that is the reason that Canadian football fields are ten yards longer between goal lines: they kept the dimensions which they inherited from rugby.
Penn won’t get rid of their track because the Penn Relays is the oldest and largest track event in the US. Runners from elementary school all the way to the Senior Circuit are included. Franklin Field itself was actually built to host the relays and not football originally but it is the oldest stadium to be used for both football and track.
I have a dream that Philadelphia gets the Summer Olympics one day and that the track and field events are held at Franklin Field. So many international Olympic level athletes have competed there that it would make total sense and isn't only a great American experience.
@@buckstraw925 it would be the smallest main Olympic Track and Field stadium in a long time, though I could see them putting some of the big ticket races there due to its history
The coldest I have ever been at a football game, and I’ve been to many, was at Cornell’s stadium for a game against Penn in the early 1970s. Ithaca can be an icebox in the winter.
I love these mostly old and unique stadiums. There are some really cool and iconic stadiums in the power conferences, but also a lot that are crappy because they just kept adding on and it is kind of awkward mash up.
Harvard Stadium was the final home of the Boston Patriots for the 1970 season before they moved to Foxboro. The Pats couldn't play late afternoon or on Monday night given the lack of lights. Same for the Giants at Yale Bowl.
I've been there. It's meant to look like the old stadium and they did a really good job. There's offices and I believe even a climbing wall in the outer shell around the field.
A few tidbits: Franklin Field hosts the Penn Relays track meet every year. The 1961 edition of the Penn Relays was featured on the very first telecast of "Wide World Of Sports" (April 29th, 1961). The Yale Bowl was the temporary home if the NFL's New York Giants in 1973 and 1974 until the original Meadowlands stadium was built. And Harvard Stadium is expected to be named the site of the January 1st, 2024 NHL Winter Classic, given that 2024 will be the 100th anniversary of the Boston Bruins hockey team.
@@chop3625😅 OH yeah! The restroom are real cool. I worked for the YALE athletic department back in the early 1980s and the Yale Bowl was falling apart back then. Doug Flutie and Boston College came down to play Yale in the Bowl. The ceiling in BCs lockerroom fell down onto the floor before they arrived to get ready. They had to dress underneath the stands. Rather embassassing for an Ivy League school, ya think?
What I find interesting about the Ivy League is that the Cleveland Browns have many Ivy League guys, or at least it seems like they do compared to other NFL teams. Head coach Kevin Stefanski played at Penn, general manager Andrew Berry and chief strategy officer Paul DePodesta (the real life inspiration for Jonah Hill’s character in Moneyball), Harvard guys. Their center J.C. Tretter played at Cornell. I’m sure there are more but those are some of the more notable Ivy League guys in the organization
Couple of things here. 1. Being from Connecticut I can attest to the fact that the Yale Bowl looks like nothing from the road in fact the Baseball field (Yale Field original I know) is much more distinctive. That said Yale treats the entrances with acid to maintain the weathered look. 2. Columbia's stadium is not the largest football stadium in NYC but it is in Manhattan. 3. The ivy was pulled off the walls of Harvard Stadium as I understand due to the damage the Ivy was doing to the structural integrity of the build. 4. As someone who went to school next door at Ithaca, we usually called Cornell's stadium simply the Arch. It's quite beautiful though.
The fact that Yale is one of the richest colleges in the world and the surrounding neighborhoods around the school are poor and ghetto is both funny and ironic. Thats totally different from where Harvard is located.
@@Chaz4543 yeah it's funny that way. New Haven I'm general is such a Jekyll and Hyde city. Some nice parts are absolutely beautiful and there's arguably the Best pizza in the US. But the bad are pretty ugly.
@@mets137781 - New Haven has always puzzled me. On the surface, it should be one of the nicest cities in the country. It is a seaside community in the sixth richest State, per capita, in the country, located about two hours away from both New York City and Boston, and home to one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Yet so much of it is a violent ghetto.
Regarding number 2, I believe Columbia does have the largest football only stadium in NYC. Downing used to be but it was torn down to build a smaller one. Fordham's is much smaller, Yankee Stadium doesn't count even though it hosts the Pinstripe Bowl, so I believe the video is correct.
@@Chaz4543 that’s not exactly true. Yes, some of New Haven is poor and poorly maintained but much is not. The area around the Yale Bowl is not ghetto, not poor. Yale also contributes a great deal financially and in community to the area.
In 1970, Dartmouth coach Bob Blackman came to our house in Central NY to recruit my oldest brother, who was a three-sport star in high school. Blackman told my father he was as impressed with his grades as he was with his athletics. He raved about his 780 score (out of 800) on the math SAT to which my father replied, "Well, he missed one, but if he took it again, he'd get them all right". My brother went there on an academic scholarship (technically, they don't have athletic scholarships in the Ivy League) but switched to basketball when Blackman left.
> 6:23 < The NFL Giants used Yale Bowl for a couple years, after they left Yankee Stadium New York City, and before the Giant were in Giants Stadium New Jersey.
I think it's also worth mentioning that Dartmouth is home to best mascot in college sports, Keggy the Keg. Yes I kid you not they have a literal beer keg as their mascot.
Harvard stadium is probably the most important stadium in football history bc it’s narrow shape made it impossible for the sport to be played on a wider field. In the early 1900’s football was considered too dangerous and they needed a way to make it safer and the two main options were 1. Make the field wider so people were more spread out 2. Incorporate the forward pass to keep people from banging heads at the line every single play. Harvard stadium is the reason American football is so different from rugby basically.
The iconic Yale Bowl in New Haven has arguably the most storied history behind it. When it opened in 1914 - it was the largest stadium in the world - able to hold over 70,000 fans - ( seating capacity has since been reduced with renovations to 61K ) - and it was the first to incorporate seating that completely surrounded the field - achieved by excavating 13 acres of land - all of it used to build the surrounding walls. It was the first bowl-shaped stadium in the country - and was the inspiration for other great bowl stadiums to follow - including the Rose Bowl and the Cotton Bowl. It has also hosted many other types of events over the decades - including rock legends like Led Zeppelin, Yes, the Who, the Grateful Dead and the Eagles.
They are actually kind of big for the crowds they draw today. When many of them were built they were a National Power conference and would actually fill them.
Yankee Stadium does host an American college football game or two each season, so it could technically be a football stadium in that sense. Anyway, three of the Ivy League stadiums have hosted NFL teams: Franklin Field (1958-1970, Eagles), Harvard Stadium (1970, Patriots) and Yale Bowl (1973-1974, Giants).
Franklin Field was the host of the 1958 and 1960 NFL championships as well. the 1958 NFL championship was won by the Baltimore Colts in overtime against the New York Giants. The 1960 NFL championship was Vince Lombardi's only playoff loss ever, the Eagles won that game 17-13 and the Eagles would play their home games at Franklin Field from 1958-1970. In addition, the track is famous for the Penn Relays which occur every year and feature youth track runners all the way up to college and Olympic runners. Lots of history at Franklin Field.
@@ronaldcammarata3422 yes, my bad. I was thinking of the 1948 NFL championship game which was actually played at Shibe Park in a blizzard not Franklin Field.
@@ronaldcammarata3422due to the NFL having strange tv blackout rules even in the 50s the overtime game was blacked out in NYC but not across the river in New Jersey. Thousands of Giants fans crossed the river to check in to hotels to watch the game.
Boy, taking a couple of shots at Brown and Dartmouth. Clearly the announcer is not a grad of either. Anyway, I'm a Midwesterner but about 10 years ago I got to go to a Harvard-Yale game at Harvard Stadium. Great game and I loved the stadium. The quality of football in the Ivy League is pretty good for non-major schools. The MAC is a college football league close to home for me, so I've seen a lot of MAC games in person. I would say that the quality of Ivy League football is probably comparable to the MAC.
@@cuhziah the Ivy League schools have 40 football national championships between them including 29 consecutive years. The man said "in history" so don't be so quick to mock what you do not know. Of course their last championship was 95 years ago...
It's ridiculous to comment on something that went up two years ago but I'd like to tell you that my wife's uncle who died at age 100. He ran track at Iowa State because he was discovered at the Penn Relays. He was from Brooklyn New York. It was the most important track meet in the country and one of the most important in the world.
Penn won't get rid of the track. The annual Penn Relays are held there as are many other championship events I'm sure. Also, with temporary bleachers, the football capacity can be increased to nearly 60,000.
My uncle was an All American at Brown University during the early 1940s, just before he joined the Army. In the 70's I went to a few Brown University games. quaint little stadium that had character. Not the giant med west Ohio or Michigan or Oklahoma sized stadiums
Nothing is as fun as a cool crisp Autumn day, with sunshine. Go out to a somewhat local stadium, have a warm hot dog, a soda or a beer. Enjoy the outdoors and the live energy.
There was a proposal to widen the football field after a series of on field deaths during the early 1900s. Harvard just built Memorial Stadium. Harvard was a major football power. Harvard said no to a widening the field. Thanks to Harvard the size of the field remained unchanged.
Harvard’s alum was in the White House and was behind reforms to make the game safer, widening it wasn’t going to stop the violent slamming from rushing every single play so they incorporated the forward pass
If I remember correctly, Harvard took the Ivy off their stadium because it was starting to damage the facade. The roots that attach the Ivy to the wall were letting moisture into the wall and it would freeze and start popping off. At least that's what I remember. Or that all could have been in my head....
Good afternoon (or Good morning). Franklin Field, located at 33rd and South Streets in the University City section of western Philadelphia (the name being due to the fact that Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania are right next to each other), was originally built in 1895. Penn enrolls more students--over 10,000--than any other Ivy League university.
Thank you for this vid. Born and raised on the isle of Manhattan, I can appreciate all the city has to offer including L.A. Wien Stadium, wbich has the most picturesque surroundings of any of the lot, which is saying alot. I am a fan of the "Horseshoe style" stadiums, however, and always have been. Btw, Harvard's for real Ninny's, Orwell appreciated the shout out and the big brown is what you get when you mix Tequila and chase it with Taco Bell! Go Lions!!!
From the six of them, you'd think they could seat a lot more people than what is listed. I know at one time when the Eagles played there, Franklin Field could seat 67065 people. Also at one time, the press box had been condemned. Most have very nice settings.
Reduction in attendance is due to fire codes changing over time. They said you need more exits to get people out faster, but with an old-timey concrete stadium like these that can be hard to do. The remedy is to reduce capacity. Syracuse University built Archbold Stadium in 1907, it looked like a smaller Los Angeles Coliseum, that seated 40,000 people. By the time it was torn down in 1980 they had to reduce capacity to about 26,000 to meet fire codes. They replaced it with the Carrier Dome, which, interestingly, despite having more seats, actually has a smaller footprint than the old stadium. In a small urban campus like Syracuse, that made a big difference.
There's actually 8, and I remember Franklin Field holding more as well. Maybe they had auxiliary seating in the end zones because I can't see where other bleachers could be installed. Also, the persons with disabilities act and stricter fire codes reduced seating capacities in many stadiums and arenas.
Franklin Field truly only comes alive during the Penn Relays. Every one of the athletes who is interviewed will say that the atmosphere is absolutely one of a kind. And the Jamaican fans who make the journey to gather are an absolute jewel to the tradition. Yet you’d be far fetched to find a Penn student who actually cares about the football team.
One feature ? about Columbia's stadium-campus is centered around 116th St. and Broadway but the stadium is way down at 218th St. But, it is not a long subway ride at all.
The Super Bowl does name not come from bowl stadiums. The Super Bowl name came from Lamar Hunt's son. He was playing with something call a super ball. A lot of American kids had this ball, including myself. He adopted the name and changed it to super bowl.
That story may be apocryphal but even if true it doesn’t invalidate the point. The reason the name “Super Bowl” stuck is that by that time the term “bowl” was informally used to designate any important American football game, because post-season college football games had long been called bowl games, which were so called because they were modeled after the Rose Bowl game, which was so called because it is played in the Rose Bowl stadium, which is so called because it was modeled after the Yale Bowl.
At the time of the original super bowl which was 1966 college football bowl games were essintially post season exibitions played as a celebration of the past season. Bowl games had no bearing on the polls or national championships at that time. The 1st "super bowl" was just that, an exhibition game because the vast majority of the American football world (meaning the media & fan base) didn't take this 1st game between the NFL champion and the far weaker AFL champion seriously at all. In fact, the LA Colosseum wasn't even close to a sellout. That's where the term came from with the word "super" representing the professional aspect of the post season bowl. One could actually call the very 1st super bowl the 1st football TV special. It was closer to a reality show than a serious competition. After all, the World Championship had already been played. That's what the NFL called it's championship game in 1966.
The video of the Greek "stadium" is actually the Parthenon in Athens, a temple, not a stadium. The stadium in Olympia still stands, including the starting line etched into stone blocks.
Regarding Harvard: " ...but that's in Rome, only slightly warmer than Boston ...". Well done. While Harvard is in Cambridge, MA, the stadium is across the Charles River in a section of Boston called Allston.
If I'm not mistaken, the term "Ivy League" has nothing to do with botany. It was derived from the Roman numerals for division 4 or (IV) as those schools were classified back in the day.
Ivy League: only football conference not to take part in playoffs or bowl games since the Division 1 split. reason being: exams. they’re an academic-first group of institutions so don’t take part in postseason events regardless of how good the teams are. Franklin Field hasn’t had real grass since 1969, it used Astroturf and then Sprinturf. It might have been resurfaced, but it hasn’t had real grass in 52 years Harvard inspired the layout and look of Penn, complete with running track that thankfully has been removed. It also had something other stadium’s didn’t: its own subway station built just across the river only open on game days. And Harvard does actually have seats: they’re bleacher seating, wood on top of the concrete. the actual rows are the seating, you have to look closely to see them but the stadium has seating
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As someone who goes to one of these schools, your comments about Brown at 0:45 could not be more accurate. Keep up the great work!
Although old and w/o amenities, the Yale Bowl has the best sight lines for watching a football game. You can be in a crowd of 60,000 people and be at the top of the stadium and you can communicate with people on the ground level outside the stadium
Although the architecture of the Yale Bowl never loses it's uniqueness, the condition of the Bowl itself is flat-out embarrassing. It is a piece of crap. From restrooms to lockerrooms, to concession stands, it brings up the rear in the Ivy League.
Franklin Field is easily the best. It is the only track that legitimately needs to be there because of the annual international track meet, Penn Relays.
Not to mention it was the home of the Eagles until The Vet opened. It was the site of the only championship game that Lombardi lost as head coach when the Eagles beat the Packers for the 1960 title. My uncle had Eagles season tickets in those days and he always said the sightlines at Franklin Field were outstanding.
Usain Bolt was once in Franklin Field for the Penn Relays, how cool is that!
@@hondaphan4172 former NFL commissioner Bert Bell died there during an Eagles-Steelers game as well
It was the site of possibly the greatest mile race of all time, 1971 Ryun vs. Liquori.
Pretty cool point. I have pictures of my dad throwing shotput and discus for the University of Florida in 1983 at the Penn Relays
Harvard Stadium actually influenced the dimensions of American football fields. Around the turn of the century the standard distance from goal line to goal line was 110 yards, the same as with Rugby. However, Harvard Stadium wasn’t quite big enough to accommodate a field that large, so it was truncated somewhat. Since Harvard, at the time, was such a powerhouse, other schools followed their lead, and the smaller dimensions were soon standardized. Incidentally, that is the reason that Canadian football fields are ten yards longer between goal lines: they kept the dimensions which they inherited from rugby.
Who the hell cares - Peter Griffith
Its a very very important fact , what ya talking about@@bobisblue7565
Tyler Mac yeah
Penn won’t get rid of their track because the Penn Relays is the oldest and largest track event in the US. Runners from elementary school all the way to the Senior Circuit are included.
Franklin Field itself was actually built to host the relays and not football originally but it is the oldest stadium to be used for both football and track.
I have a dream that Philadelphia gets the Summer Olympics one day and that the track and field events are held at Franklin Field. So many international Olympic level athletes have competed there that it would make total sense and isn't only a great American experience.
I ran there in a track dual meet as a freshman between Penn and Cornell in 1969. It was great.
@@buckstraw925 it would be the smallest main Olympic Track and Field stadium in a long time, though I could see them putting some of the big ticket races there due to its history
@@insertcolorherehawk3761 I know and that's the issue.
Just about to comment on the Penn Relays!
The coldest I have ever been at a football game, and I’ve been to many, was at Cornell’s stadium for a game against Penn in the early 1970s. Ithaca can be an icebox in the winter.
I love these mostly old and unique stadiums. There are some really cool and iconic stadiums in the power conferences, but also a lot that are crappy because they just kept adding on and it is kind of awkward mash up.
Can’t tell you again how much I enjoy your channel…thanks for another great Vid
Cheers!
Franklin Field in Philly was once the home of the NFL's Eagles; they won the 1960 NFL Championship during that time.
Harvard Stadium was the final home of the Boston Patriots for the 1970 season before they moved to Foxboro. The Pats couldn't play late afternoon or on Monday night given the lack of lights. Same for the Giants at Yale Bowl.
Cornell served as the home field for Syracuse for a couple of games I'm 1979 while the Carrier Dome was under construction.
They're really different ellegant and nice, Amazing episode
Princeton’s stadium is really underrated. A beautiful spot
Sadly the old stadium had to go
I've been there. It's meant to look like the old stadium and they did a really good job. There's offices and I believe even a climbing wall in the outer shell around the field.
A few tidbits:
Franklin Field hosts the Penn Relays track meet every year.
The 1961 edition of the Penn Relays was featured on the very first telecast of "Wide World Of Sports" (April 29th, 1961).
The Yale Bowl was the temporary home if the NFL's New York Giants in 1973 and 1974 until the original Meadowlands stadium was built.
And Harvard Stadium is expected to be named the site of the January 1st, 2024 NHL Winter Classic, given that 2024 will be the 100th anniversary of the Boston Bruins hockey team.
why are these videos so chill and entertaining
The Yale bowl also has no amenities in the structure. Lockers are a 300 foot walk away if I remember. Same story with restrooms.
Restroom is outside the Bowl, they’re pretty cool too.
@@chop3625😅 OH yeah! The restroom are real cool. I worked for the YALE athletic department back in the early 1980s and the Yale Bowl was falling apart back then. Doug Flutie and Boston College came down to play Yale in the Bowl. The ceiling in BCs lockerroom fell down onto the floor before they arrived to get ready. They had to dress underneath the stands. Rather embassassing for an Ivy League school, ya think?
Thanks for another great video. Looking forward to the review of the Big Sky and Southern Conference stadiums.
What I find interesting about the Ivy League is that the Cleveland Browns have many Ivy League guys, or at least it seems like they do compared to other NFL teams. Head coach Kevin Stefanski played at Penn, general manager Andrew Berry and chief strategy officer Paul DePodesta (the real life inspiration for Jonah Hill’s character in Moneyball), Harvard guys. Their center J.C. Tretter played at Cornell. I’m sure there are more but those are some of the more notable Ivy League guys in the organization
Couple of things here. 1. Being from Connecticut I can attest to the fact that the Yale Bowl looks like nothing from the road in fact the Baseball field (Yale Field original I know) is much more distinctive. That said Yale treats the entrances with acid to maintain the weathered look. 2. Columbia's stadium is not the largest football stadium in NYC but it is in Manhattan. 3. The ivy was pulled off the walls of Harvard Stadium as I understand due to the damage the Ivy was doing to the structural integrity of the build. 4. As someone who went to school next door at Ithaca, we usually called Cornell's stadium simply the Arch. It's quite beautiful though.
The fact that Yale is one of the richest colleges in the world and the surrounding neighborhoods around the school are poor and ghetto is both funny and ironic. Thats totally different from where Harvard is located.
@@Chaz4543 yeah it's funny that way. New Haven I'm general is such a Jekyll and Hyde city. Some nice parts are absolutely beautiful and there's arguably the Best pizza in the US. But the bad are pretty ugly.
@@mets137781 - New Haven has always puzzled me. On the surface, it should be one of the nicest cities in the country. It is a seaside community in the sixth richest State, per capita, in the country, located about two hours away from both New York City and Boston, and home to one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Yet so much of it is a violent ghetto.
Regarding number 2, I believe Columbia does have the largest football only stadium in NYC. Downing used to be but it was torn down to build a smaller one. Fordham's is much smaller, Yankee Stadium doesn't count even though it hosts the Pinstripe Bowl, so I believe the video is correct.
@@Chaz4543 that’s not exactly true. Yes, some of New Haven is poor and poorly maintained but much is not. The area around the Yale Bowl is not ghetto, not poor. Yale also contributes a great deal financially and in community to the area.
love most of these. Dartmouth, not so much. Yale Bowl is the most unique old stadium in America.
Harvard Stadium used to have wood then steel bleachers making the stadium an oval. They were removed when attendance was getting low.
I played touch football on Franklin Field once with a few UPenn students.
1970. Dartmouth was last Ivy League School to finish in Top 20. The were awarded the Lambert Trophy as top team in the East over Penn State.
In 1970, Dartmouth coach Bob Blackman came to our house in Central NY to recruit my oldest brother, who was a three-sport star in high school. Blackman told my father he was as impressed with his grades as he was with his athletics. He raved about his 780 score (out of 800) on the math SAT to which my father replied, "Well, he missed one, but if he took it again, he'd get them all right". My brother went there on an academic scholarship (technically, they don't have athletic scholarships in the Ivy League) but switched to basketball when Blackman left.
Yale’s stadium is beautiful
> 6:23 < The NFL Giants used Yale Bowl for a couple years, after they left Yankee Stadium New York City, and before the Giant were in Giants Stadium New Jersey.
I think the team's 'locker rooms' are not in the Yale Bowl.
I have done chain crew games for Dartmouth and the field was amazing
I think it's also worth mentioning that Dartmouth is home to best mascot in college sports, Keggy the Keg. Yes I kid you not they have a literal beer keg as their mascot.
No surprise then that the writers of Animal House were Dartmouth alumni and got most of their material for the film from their time there
Dartmouth is a beautiful campus , but you spend a long cold winter there and you will see that a lot of drinking historically went on there.
only became the mascot because the previous one was deemed offensive to Native Americans…so they got Keggie as a bad joke
I like the video. Should definitely check out the big sky stadiums next
Harvard stadium is probably the most important stadium in football history bc it’s narrow shape made it impossible for the sport to be played on a wider field. In the early 1900’s football was considered too dangerous and they needed a way to make it safer and the two main options were
1. Make the field wider so people were more spread out
2. Incorporate the forward pass to keep people from banging heads at the line every single play.
Harvard stadium is the reason American football is so different from rugby basically.
The iconic Yale Bowl in New Haven has arguably the most storied history behind it. When it opened in 1914 - it was the largest stadium in the world - able to hold over 70,000 fans - ( seating capacity has since been reduced with renovations to 61K ) - and it was the first to incorporate seating that completely surrounded the field - achieved by excavating 13 acres of land - all of it used to build the surrounding walls. It was the first bowl-shaped stadium in the country - and was the inspiration for other great bowl stadiums to follow - including the Rose Bowl and the Cotton Bowl. It has also hosted many other types of events over the decades - including rock legends like Led Zeppelin, Yes, the Who, the Grateful Dead and the Eagles.
I really love seeing & hearing about the Ivy League Football Stadiums.
Princeton stadium is definitely in my top ten of collegiate sports.
This guy's voice is so soothing
These were what I thought they'd be: tasteful, antiquity inspired and small. I actually really like most of these
They are actually kind of big for the crowds they draw today. When many of them were built they were a National Power conference and would actually fill them.
I want to see you do D II and D III ball too!
The awesome thing about Ivy League football is how personal the rivalries get between the other 7 schools. Go big green 🌲
hell yeah new vid
4:16 - The ground-level concourse under the seating bowl is usually open to pedestrians.
Love the vids! Could you cover all the FCS conferences for us nerds out there?
I most likely will.
@@TheWideWorldofStadiums CAA and Patriot League please...some interesting ones.
I can't wait until you get to the Missouri Valley Conference, I just started at one of those schools.
Yankee Stadium does host an American college football game or two each season, so it could technically be a football stadium in that sense. Anyway, three of the Ivy League stadiums have hosted NFL teams: Franklin Field (1958-1970, Eagles), Harvard Stadium (1970, Patriots) and Yale Bowl (1973-1974, Giants).
HBCU stadiums would be very cool as an HBCU alum
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The MEAC and SWAC are FCS conferences so I’m sure that will happen.
You beat me to that thought !!
He will be ashamed of Howard's "stadium"
Penn stadium is beautiful it should never be changed
Yes, and they run the historic Penn Relays track meet on the running track. Hope they never change it.
The concourse is kind of cramped, particularly during the Penn Relays and other big crowds, but I do love it. As well as the Palestra next door.
Franklin Field was the host of the 1958 and 1960 NFL championships as well. the 1958 NFL championship was won by the Baltimore Colts in overtime against the New York Giants. The 1960 NFL championship was Vince Lombardi's only playoff loss ever, the Eagles won that game 17-13 and the Eagles would play their home games at Franklin Field from 1958-1970. In addition, the track is famous for the Penn Relays which occur every year and feature youth track runners all the way up to college and Olympic runners. Lots of history at Franklin Field.
The 1958 NFL title game was played at Yankee Stadium.
@@ronaldcammarata3422 yes, my bad. I was thinking of the 1948 NFL championship game which was actually played at Shibe Park in a blizzard not Franklin Field.
@@ronaldcammarata3422due to the NFL having strange tv blackout rules even in the 50s the overtime game was blacked out in NYC but not across the river in New Jersey. Thousands of Giants fans crossed the river to check in to hotels to watch the game.
Franklin Field is where the infamous “Santa Claus Game”, where Eagles’ fans threw snowballs at Santa Claus.
Yeah It interesting that 3 fields hosted NFL football here more than most conferences.
They did it at the old Vet Stadium in the 70s also
Well, to be fair, Santa is a Giants fan.
Brown Stadium...the name screams excitement 😄
Or excrement
Some smaller conferences such as the Big South would be cool to look at as someone going to a big south college.
Boy, taking a couple of shots at Brown and Dartmouth. Clearly the announcer is not a grad of either.
Anyway, I'm a Midwesterner but about 10 years ago I got to go to a Harvard-Yale game at Harvard Stadium. Great game and I loved the stadium. The quality of football in the Ivy League is pretty good for non-major schools. The MAC is a college football league close to home for me, so I've seen a lot of MAC games in person. I would say that the quality of Ivy League football is probably comparable to the MAC.
Do Mexican Baseball Stadiums (include LMB (summer league) and LMP (winter league) because they all have incredible stadiums) 🙌
Ah yes, the greatest conference in CFB history.
You wish LMFAOOOOO
Damnnn lol, those two fools above me clearly have never heard of sarcasm before haha.
@@insomniang ikr
@@cuhziah the Ivy League schools have 40 football national championships between them including 29 consecutive years. The man said "in history" so don't be so quick to mock what you do not know. Of course their last championship was 95 years ago...
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It's ridiculous to comment on something that went up two years ago but I'd like to tell you that my wife's uncle who died at age 100. He ran track at Iowa State because he was discovered at the Penn Relays. He was from Brooklyn New York. It was the most important track meet in the country and one of the most important in the world.
Penn won't get rid of the track. The annual Penn Relays are held there as are many other championship events I'm sure. Also, with temporary bleachers, the football capacity can be increased to nearly 60,000.
My uncle was an All American at Brown University during the early 1940s, just before he joined the Army. In the 70's I went to a few Brown University games. quaint little stadium that had character. Not the giant med west Ohio or Michigan or Oklahoma sized stadiums
@GK PRIVATE what did your uncle do in the Army🤔
FCS at alstn Thanks a lot mate
Thanks for discussing. I hope to take in an Ivy League football game in person someday. Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music/Sacred & Secular (and sports fan)
Nothing is as fun as a cool crisp Autumn day, with sunshine. Go out to a somewhat local stadium, have a warm hot dog, a soda or a beer. Enjoy the outdoors and the live energy.
This is how they teach the students shapes 😂😂😂
Come on let’s calm down with the Brown slander :(
There was a proposal to widen the football field after a series of on field deaths during the early 1900s. Harvard just built Memorial Stadium. Harvard was a major football power. Harvard said no to a widening the field. Thanks to Harvard the size of the field remained unchanged.
Harvard’s alum was in the White House and was behind reforms to make the game safer, widening it wasn’t going to stop the violent slamming from rushing every single play so they incorporated the forward pass
If I remember correctly, Harvard took the Ivy off their stadium because it was starting to damage the facade. The roots that attach the Ivy to the wall were letting moisture into the wall and it would freeze and start popping off. At least that's what I remember. Or that all could have been in my head....
@Rowdy Jr no point, it looks fine without it
it was removed from just about all of the school’s buildings due to issues, it wasn’t even original: it was added later due to popularity of it
Good afternoon (or Good morning). Franklin Field, located at 33rd and South Streets in the University City section of western Philadelphia (the name being due to the fact that Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania are right next to each other), was originally built in 1895. Penn enrolls more students--over 10,000--than any other Ivy League university.
Beautiful schools
Gotta cover the WAC/ASUN stadiums next
Thank you for this vid. Born and raised on the isle of Manhattan, I can appreciate all the city has to offer including L.A. Wien Stadium, wbich has the most picturesque surroundings of any of the lot, which is saying alot. I am a fan of the "Horseshoe style" stadiums, however, and always have been. Btw, Harvard's for real Ninny's, Orwell appreciated the shout out and the big brown is what you get when you mix Tequila and chase it with Taco Bell! Go Lions!!!
You should do the Big Sky at some point. There are some fun ones
1:30 - In this view, I can see the seats my father had for Philadelphia Eagles, facing 20-yard-line, 'field-house end'.
From the six of them, you'd think they could seat a lot more people than what is listed. I know at one time when the Eagles played there, Franklin Field could seat 67065 people. Also at one time, the press box had been condemned. Most have very nice settings.
Reduction in attendance is due to fire codes changing over time. They said you need more exits to get people out faster, but with an old-timey concrete stadium like these that can be hard to do. The remedy is to reduce capacity.
Syracuse University built Archbold Stadium in 1907, it looked like a smaller Los Angeles Coliseum, that seated 40,000 people. By the time it was torn down in 1980 they had to reduce capacity to about 26,000 to meet fire codes. They replaced it with the Carrier Dome, which, interestingly, despite having more seats, actually has a smaller footprint than the old stadium. In a small urban campus like Syracuse, that made a big difference.
There's actually 8, and I remember Franklin Field holding more as well. Maybe they had auxiliary seating in the end zones because I can't see where other bleachers could be installed. Also, the persons with disabilities act and stricter fire codes reduced seating capacities in many stadiums and arenas.
@@mdteletom1288 they did put up temporary bleachers 4 football games and removed them for track by the Field House.
Franklin Field truly only comes alive during the Penn Relays. Every one of the athletes who is interviewed will say that the atmosphere is absolutely one of a kind. And the Jamaican fans who make the journey to gather are an absolute jewel to the tradition. Yet you’d be far fetched to find a Penn student who actually cares about the football team.
The best edumacation
Temple University used to play home games here before they moved to Lincoln Financial Field!
One feature ? about Columbia's stadium-campus is centered around 116th St. and Broadway but the stadium is way down at 218th St. But, it is not a long subway ride at all.
Yale Stadium looks amazing.
You should do the pioneer football league stadiums
Penn Relays is one of the largest Track meets in the United States are held at Penn
I actually went to Yale Bowl this past year to see Yale take on Columbia!
I've been to games at two, Harvard and Franklin Field. Buy I've only seen lacrosse at Franklin Field.
The Penn relays (track and field) outdraw the Penn football team by a mile. It's the one stadium where the track is never going away.
You should do the South Western Athletic Conference. Conference of D1 HBCU football
You should do the other fcs conferences
The poison ivy. 😂😂 That one's funny
Not even on a winters day. Fall, that stadium at Harvard is COLD.
Franklin Field gets pretty cold, too.
Can u do cfl past stadiums ? And maybe AAA baseball or whatever league the winnipeg goldeyes play in
Franklin Field is the best out of the rest, it was also a stand in for the movie Invincible
The Super Bowl does name not come from bowl stadiums. The Super Bowl name came from Lamar Hunt's son. He was playing with something call a super ball. A lot of American kids had this ball, including myself. He adopted the name and changed it to super bowl.
That story may be apocryphal but even if true it doesn’t invalidate the point. The reason the name “Super Bowl” stuck is that by that time the term “bowl” was informally used to designate any important American football game, because post-season college football games had long been called bowl games, which were so called because they were modeled after the Rose Bowl game, which was so called because it is played in the Rose Bowl stadium, which is so called because it was modeled after the Yale Bowl.
At the time of the original super bowl which was 1966 college football bowl games were essintially post season exibitions played as a celebration of the past season. Bowl games had no bearing on the polls or national championships at that time. The 1st "super bowl" was just that, an exhibition game because the vast majority of the American football world (meaning the media & fan base) didn't take this 1st game between the NFL champion and the far weaker AFL champion seriously at all. In fact, the LA Colosseum wasn't even close to a sellout. That's where the term came from with the word "super" representing the professional aspect of the post season bowl. One could actually call the very 1st super bowl the 1st football TV special. It was closer to a reality show than a serious competition. After all, the World Championship had already been played. That's what the NFL called it's championship game in 1966.
They're smart _and_ can play football? Damn, leave something for the rest of us
You know it would be a good idea If you did all sports stadiums in college.
I been to Franklin Field. They host the Penn Relay there big track meet. Btw Santa Claus got booed at Franklin Field
The only football game held at Yankee Stadium is the Pinstripe Bowl.
But the Giants used to play there.
@@allenmurray7893 No that was Old Yankee Stadium.
The video of the Greek "stadium" is actually the Parthenon in Athens, a temple, not a stadium. The stadium in Olympia still stands, including the starting line etched into stone blocks.
Regarding Harvard: " ...but that's in Rome, only slightly warmer than Boston ...". Well done. While Harvard is in Cambridge, MA, the stadium is across the Charles River in a section of Boston called Allston.
1:26 - The closest stadium to the Amtrak/Pennsylvania RR line.
The Yale Bowl... Is surrealistic
The legendary Penn Relays are run on that track.
If I'm not mistaken, the term "Ivy League" has nothing to do with botany. It was derived from the Roman numerals for division 4 or (IV) as those schools were classified back in the day.
Nice shots but Most of these schools ARE the Upper tiers educationally! So you might get some heat with your lower than normal comments! ;-)
Wowza
Do the Colonial athletic association
Shame the Ivy League isn't allowed to send teams to the FCS playoffs because at least the conference winners deserve it year by year
They're allowed, the league chooses not to.
Can you do stadiums of US military academies? Including the citadel, VMI, etc.
Those will probably be done with their respective conferences
Franklin Field was the first stadium with a second deck
Fun Fact Georgia stole the Bulldog name From Yale ..
I'd imagine it's a 24/7/365 job to prevent flooding at the Yale facility or any stadium where the playing surface is substantially below street level.
You could have mentioned that Yale Bowl is more than half underground level unlike the other stadiums you have shown
Ivy League: only football conference not to take part in playoffs or bowl games since the Division 1 split. reason being: exams. they’re an academic-first group of institutions so don’t take part in postseason events regardless of how good the teams are.
Franklin Field hasn’t had real grass since 1969, it used Astroturf and then Sprinturf. It might have been resurfaced, but it hasn’t had real grass in 52 years
Harvard inspired the layout and look of Penn, complete with running track that thankfully has been removed. It also had something other stadium’s didn’t: its own subway station built just across the river only open on game days. And Harvard does actually have seats: they’re bleacher seating, wood on top of the concrete. the actual rows are the seating, you have to look closely to see them but the stadium has seating