Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recommendations of the Board of Overseers embodied, it is believed, a proposal to remedy the present limited seating capacity of the Stadium by the use of portable steel stands, which would fill in the space at the end of the Stadium which was formerly occupied by the wooden stands. These stands might be employed also at the Yale baseball game...
...plan substituted by the Corporation for this rejected solution is a consideration of the possibility of replacing the wooden stands at the end of the Stadium by permanent concrete seats. C. A. Coolidge '81, Boston architect, will present sketches for plans for accomplishing this...
...Corporation passed in its meeting Monday, follows: "Voted, the Corporation being informed that the suggestion of the Overseers for movable steel stands is impracticable, that the President and Mr. Bingham, the Director of Athletic be authorized to obtain sketches from Mr. Charles A. Coolidge for plans for replacing the wooden stands at the end of the end of the Stadium by reinforced concrete seats...
...suggestion of the Corporation should be adopted, the seating capacity of the Stadium would be increased to about 55,000. With the old wooden stands the Stadium held just 54,000 persons...
Permanent concrete stands erected across the open end of the Stadium would, in all probability, either complete the circle of the present stands, in harmony with the present architecture, or take the form of the wooden stands leaving openings on each side, one of which would permit the passage of the 220-yard straightaway track. If the Stadium circle should be complete, the chances are that a runway would be left for the track...