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Kinnick Stadium
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Kinnick Stadium, formerly known as Iowa Stadium, is a stadium located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the stadium of the University of Iowa Hawkeyes. First opened in 1929, it holds up to 70,585 people, making it the 7th largest stadium in the Big Ten. It is named for Nile Kinnick, the 1939 Heisman Trophy winner and the only Heisman winner in university history and it was named Iowa Stadium until 1972, when longtime lobbying by Cedar Rapids Gazette sportswriter Gus Schrader successfully convinced the UI athletic board to change the name. It is currently the only football stadium named after a Heisman Trophy winner. Iowa Stadium was constructed in seven months between 1928 and 1929. Groundbreaking and construction began on March 6,1929, workers worked around the clock using lights by night and horses and mules as the primary heavy-equipment movers. There was a rumor for many years that horses that died during the process were buried under what now is the North end zone, historians report this is a myth and the animals were disposed of in the nearby Iowa River. The round-the-clock construction came to an end in July, the stadium was dedicated two weeks later, when the Hawkeyes tied Illinois 7–7. The playing surface is currently synthetic Field Turf, although it was AstroTurf from 1972 until grass was reinstalled for the 1989 through 2008 seasons. The installation of artificial turf came at the time that Iowa Stadium was renamed Kinnick Stadium in honor of the Heisman winner who had perished 29 years earlier. When filled to capacity, Kinnick Stadium would be the fifth-largest city in Iowa, prior to the 2015 football season, the stadium did not have permanent lights, the school contracted Musco Lightings portable light trucks for night games in previous years. The school had installed permanent practice lights in 2012, by capacity, Kinnick Stadium is the 27th largest college football stadium, the 42nd largest sports stadium in the United States, and the 86th largest sports stadium in the world. On November 14,2015, Iowa set the collegiate wrestling dual-meet attendance record at Kinnick with over 42,000 fans in a victory over #1 Oklahoma State. Kinnick Stadium is well known for its pink visitors locker rooms, believing that pink would put opponents in a passive mood, and because he thought that some believed pink was a sissy color, Fry had the visiting locker rooms decorated completely in the color pink. The pink locker room tradition has continued with the newly renovated locker rooms. Controversy flared during the 2005 season when a law professor, along with other university faculty and students protested the pink coloration as demeaning to women. Despite these protests and with lots of student support, however, a more recent feature is the 20-foot-tall bronze statue of Heisman Trophy winner Nile Kinnick, the statue depicts Kinnick dressed as a scholar, rather than in his football uniform
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2009 Michigan Wolverines football team
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The 2009 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They played their games at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The team attempted to rebound from its worst season in its 130-year football history and succeeded at first, starting the season 4–0 and earning a No.20 ranking in the polls. Over the final eight games the Wolverines went 1–7 however, ending the season with a 5–7 record,2008 and 2009 were Michigans first back-to-back sub-.500 seasons since 1962 and 1963, they also failed to win a road game for the first time since 1962. Graham was the national champion in tackles for a loss. Zoltan Mesko also received second team All-American recognitions and was a first team Academic All-American. Mesko was the Big Ten punting average statistical champion, after the season, co-captains Graham, Mesko and leading tackler Stevie Brown were drafted in the 2010 NFL Draft and immediately after the draft Donovan Warren signed as an undrafted free agent. In 2008 the Michigan Wolverines had possibly the worst season in the history of the program, the team finished with a 3–9 regular season record, failing to qualify for a postseason bowl game for the first time in 33 years. The team had 10 returning offensive starters and 5 returning defensive starters, although the 2008 defense had been a disappointment, Obi Ezeh and Brandon Graham were considered to be a solid nucleus to build around. The team also employed a new coordinator, Greg Robinson. The key losses for the team were S Brandon Harrison, DE Tim Jamison, DT Will Johnson, RB Sam McGuffie, DT Terrance Taylor, LB John Thompson, QB Steven Threet, the Wolverines received several commitments from 4-star blue chip players. LaLota appeared in the U. S. Army All-American game on January 3,2009 in San Antonio, other top recruits included a top-ten-rated dual-threat quarterback to run Rich Rodriguezs spread offense, and Justin Turner who was rated as the No.3 safety. Michigans 2009 recruiting class was ranked 7th nationally by Rivals. com, Army All-American game during which William Campbell announced his re-commitment to the program. Joining Campbell and LaLota in the All-America game were cornerback/safety Justin Turner, kicker Brendan Gibbons, Rodriguez denied all of the allegations at a press conference the next day, The New York Times quoted him as saying We know the rules, and we follow the rules. The University of Michigan Athletic Departments compliance office notified both the NCAA and the Big Ten Conference of its intentions to investigate itself, in November, the university revealed its finding that the team failed to file the proper paperwork to document the teams training schedule. The NCAA had the right to either accept Michigans findings once the athletic departments inquiry was completed or to conduct its own investigation. On October 23,2009 the NCAA notified the school that it had decided to begin an investigation into the matter. On February 22,2010, the NCAA accused Michigan of failing to comply with practice time rules, the university had 90 days to respond and appeared at an NCAA hearing on infractions in August
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University of Iowa
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The University of Iowa is a flagship public research university in Iowa City, Iowa. Founded in 1847, Iowa is the oldest university in the state, the University of Iowa is organized into eleven colleges offering more than 200 areas of study and seven professional degrees. The university was the developer of the Master of Fine Arts degree. The Iowa alumni network exceeds 250,000, and the university budgeted revenues and expenses of $3.513 billion for 2015, the University of Iowas athletic teams, the Hawkeyes, compete in Division I of the NCAA and are members of the Big Ten Conference. The Hawkeyes field 24 varsity teams and have won 27 national championships, the University of Iowa was founded on February 25,1847, just 59 days after Iowa was admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Iowa refers to a State University to be established in Iowa City without branches at any other place. The legal name of the university is the State University of Iowa, the first faculty offered instruction at the university beginning in March 1855 to students in the Old Mechanics Building, located where Seashore Hall is now. In September 1855, there were 124 students, of whom forty-one were women, the first president of the university was Amos Dean. The original campus consisted of the Iowa Old Capitol Building and the 10 acres of land on which it stood, until that date, it had been the third capitol of the Territory of Iowa. When the capitol of Iowa was moved to Des Moines in 1857, in 1855, Iowa became the first public university in the United States to admit men and women on an equal basis. The university offered its first doctorate in 1898, the university was the first state university to recognize the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Allied Union. Also, the University of Iowa was the first Big Ten institution to promote an African American to the position of vice president. A shooting took place on campus on November 1,1991, in the summer of 2008, flood waters breached the Coralville Reservoir spillway, damaging more than 20 major campus buildings. Several weeks after the waters receded university officials placed a preliminary estimate on flood damage at $231.75 million. Later, the university estimated that repairs would cost about $743 million, later in 2008, UNESCO designated Iowa City the worlds third City of Literature, making it part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Iowa legislators ultimately did not support the plan, in 2015, the Iowa Board of Regents selected Bruce Harreld, a business consultant with limited experience in academic administration, to succeed Sally Mason as president. In July 2016, the university took over the former AIB College of Business in Des Moines, Four bachelors programs are offered in Des Moines, an additional four masters-level programs are offered in Des Moines at the universitys site in the citys Western Gateway Park. The University of Iowas main campus, located in Iowa City, was designed by architect D. Elwood Cook
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Iowa Hawkeyes
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The Iowa Hawkeyes are sports teams that represent the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The Hawkeyes have varsity teams in 24 sports,11 for men and 13 for women, the teams participate in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and are members of the Big Ten Conference. Currently, the athletic director is Gary Barta. Historically, Iowa has been successful in wrestling, with 34 team Big Ten championships and 23 team national championships. The Hawkeyes have also won championships in five other sports, mens gymnastics, football, field hockey, rifle and womens track. In basketball, Iowa has reached the Final Four on four occasions, the mens team has done this three times, most recently in 1980, while the womens team has done it once, in 1993. The baseball team has reached the College World Series once, in 1972, Iowas softball team has played in the Womens College World Series on four occasions, most recently in 2001. Football home games are played at Kinnick Stadium, while basketball, gymnastics, volleyball, the schools baseball team plays at Duane Banks Field and the softball team plays at Bob Pearl Softball Field. In 1833, James Edwards, a newspaperman from Burlington, Iowa selected the nickname to honor the memory of Black Hawk, Edwards called his newspapers Hawk Eye and in 1838 the Officials of the territory of Iowa accepted the nickname. The University of Iowa currently fields 25 varsity teams, participating in the Big Ten and the NCAAs Division I, they are, Iowa began playing baseball in 1890, when the Hawkeyes went a combined 2–1 against two teams, Cornell and Vinton. To date, Iowa has won eight Big Ten titles, and has played in the College World Series once. Iowa earned its way to the CWS at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha with a 13-3 Big Ten record and that record included another school record that still stands, an 11-game Big Ten winning streak. It was Iowas first outright Big Ten baseball title since 1939, lose one of those four games, and Iowa goes home. In 1972, only conference champions competed for the eight World Series berths, the Hawkeyes opened the 1972 CWS against #1-ranked Arizona State, who entered the game with an incredible record of 60 wins and only 4 losses. But Iowa, an underdog, outhit the Sun Devils 8-3 only to lose. Iowa had the tying run thrown out at the plate in the 9th inning, Iowa had also threatened in the 7th with a lead-off double, but could not score. The Hawkeyes then played in the losers bracket the next day against Temple, but after taking a 6-2 lead into the sixth inning, the Hawkeyes ended up being knocked out of the Series with a 12-8 loss. Arizona State lost the game that year to Southern Cal
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Iowa City, Iowa
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Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is the only City of Literature in North America, as awarded by UNESCO in 2008, as of the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of about 67,862. The U. S. Census Bureau estimated the 2015 population at 74,220, Iowa City is the county seat of Johnson County and home to the University of Iowa. Iowa City is the city of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area. Iowa City was the capital of the Iowa Territory and the first capital city of the State of Iowa. The Old Capitol building is a National Historic Landmark in the center of the University of Iowa campus, the University of Iowa Art Museum and Plum Grove, the home of the first Governor of Iowa, are also tourist attractions. In 2008, Forbes magazine named Iowa City the second-best small metropolitan area for doing business in the United States. Commissioners Chauncey Swan and John Ronalds met on May 1 in the settlement of Napoleon, south of present-day Iowa City. The following day the commissioners selected a site on bluffs above the Iowa River north of Napoleon, placed a stake in the center of the proposed site and began planning the new capital city. Commissioner Swan, in a report to the legislature in Burlington, described the site, there is an eminence on the west near the river, running parallel with it. By June of that year, the town had been platted and surveyed from Brown St. in the north to Burlington St. in the south, and from the Iowa River eastward to Governor St. While Iowa City was selected as the capital in 1839, it did not officially become the capital city until 1841. The capitol building was completed in 1842, and the last four territorial legislatures and the first six Iowa General Assemblies met there until 1857, John F. Rague is credited with designing the Territorial Capitol Building. He had previously designed the 1837 capitol of Illinois and was supervising its construction when he got the commission to design the new Iowa capitol in 1839. He quit the Iowa project after five months, claiming his design was not followed, one surviving 1839 sketch of the proposed capital shows a radically different layout, with two domes and a central tower. The cornerstone of the Old Capitol Building was laid in Iowa City on July 4,1840, Iowa City was declared the state capital of Iowa, and the government convened in the Old Capitol Building. Oakland Cemetery was deeded to the people of Iowa City by the Iowa territorial legislature on February 13,1843, the original plot was one block square, with the southwest corner at Governor and Church. Over the years the cemetery has expanded and now encompasses 40 acres
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South Carolina Gamecocks football
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The South Carolina Gamecocks football program represents the University of South Carolina in the sport of American football. The Gamecocks compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, will Muschamp currently serves as the teams head coach. They play their games at Williams-Brice Stadium. Currently, it is the 20th largest stadium in college football, USCs SEC tenure has been highlighted by an SEC East title in 2010, Final Top-25 rankings in 2000,2001,2010,2011,2012 and 2013, and four wins over Top-5 SEC opponents. From 1953 through 1970, the Gamecocks played in the Atlantic Coast Conference, winning the 1969 ACC championship and finishing No.15 in the 1958 final AP poll. From 1971 through 1991, they competed as a independent, producing 1980 Heisman Trophy winner George Rogers, six bowl appearances. The Gamecocks have produced a National Coach of the Year in Joe Morrison and they also have four members of the College Football Hall of Fame in former players George Rogers and Sterling Sharpe, and former coaches Lou Holtz and Steve Spurrier. Carolina fielded its first football team on Christmas Eve, in Charleston, South Carolina, at that time the football team was not sanctioned by the University. They provided their own uniforms and paid their own train fare in order to participate in the game and they were nicknamed the College Boys by The News and Courier and their supporters wore garnet and black. USC won its first game in its season, on November 2,1895 against Columbia AA. The squad designated their first head coach, W. H. Dixie Whaley, the 1896 season also saw the inaugural game against arch-rival Clemson on November 12, which Carolina won 12–6. From 1902 to 1903, coach Bob Williams led the Gamecocks to a 14–3 record, in 1902, South Carolina beat Clemson, coached by John Heisman, for the first time since 1896, the first year of the rivalry. After the game on Thursday, the Clemson guys frankly told the Carolina students that if you bring this poster, and naturally, of course, the Carolina students brought the poster to the parade. If you give someone an ultimatum and they’re your rival, they’re going to do exactly what you told them not to do, as expected, another brawl broke out before both sides agreed to mutually burn the poster in an effort to defuse tensions. The immediate aftermath resulted in the stoppage of the rivalry until 1909,1903 also heralded the programs first 8-win season with an overall record of 8–2. Future senator and former player for South Carolina and UVA. 1904s captain Gene Oliver played against Georgia with a broken jaw, within months The Board of Trustees reversed their decision after hearing pleas, and receiving petitions, from students and alumni alike. Play was allowed to resume in 1907, a hastily assembled football team, coached by Board of Trustees member Douglas McKay, competed in an abbreviated season that same year, and the squad won all three games
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Jack Trice Stadium
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Jack Trice Stadium is a stadium, in Ames, Iowa, United States. It is primarily used for football, and is the home field of the Iowa State Cyclones. It opened on September 20,1975, with a 17–12 win over Air Force and it is the third-largest stadium by capacity in the Big 12 Conference and the third-newest in the conference, behind only Milan Puskar Stadium of West Virginia and Baylors McLane Stadium. Including hillside seats in the corners of the stadium, the official capacity is 61,500. The school announced in May 2014 a planned expansion to 61,500, the current record for single-game attendance,61,500, was set on September 5,2015, when the Cyclones defeated the University of Northern Iowa 31-7. Jack Trice Stadium replaced Clyde Williams Field, which had been in use from 1914 through 1974, Williams Field was closed in 1975 and razed in 1978, and Martin and Eaton residence halls now stand on the ground. The stadium consists of double-decked grandstands running the length of either sideline, the Richard O. Jacobson Athletic Building, an athletic center built in 1996, is located in the north end zone. The field itself is slightly lower than the surrounding ground, there is a single main concourse for each of the grandstands. A three-level press box on the west side of the stadium was added to the stadium in 1997 for a cost of $6.2 million, permanent lighting and a large video/scoreboard behind the bleachers in the south end zone were added in 2002. Later in the summer of 2011 a second video/scoreboard was added on the north side, at triple the size of the previous scoreboard, it stands over the Jacobson Athletic Building. Both scoreboards consist of three levels on the inside, with a perch on top. The stadium is part of the Iowa State Center, a sports, entertainment, on October 6,1923, Trice and his Iowa State College teammates played against the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Because he was African American, on the night of the game, during the second play of the game, Trices collarbone was broken. Trice insisted he was all right and returned to the game, in the third quarter, while attempting to tackle a University of Minnesota ball carrier by throwing a roll block, Trice was trampled by three Minnesota players. Although he claimed to be fine, Trice was removed from the game, the doctors declared him fit to travel and he returned by train to Ames with his teammates. On October 8,1923, Trice died from hemorrhaged lungs, there was a great deal of speculation surrounding the play that resulted in Jack Trices death. Many of his teammates claimed after the fact that he was a being targeted throughout the first two quarters because of his skin color, ISU teammate Johnny Behm told the Cleveland Plain Dealer in a 1979 interview that One person told me that nothing out of the ordinary happened. But another who saw it said it was murder, Iowa State dismissed all classes after 3 p. m. on October 9,1923 in honor of Trice, who wore the number 37 in his short career at Iowa State
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Beaver Stadium
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Beaver Stadium is an outdoor college football stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, on the campus of The Pennsylvania State University. It is home to the Penn State Nittany Lions of the Big Ten Conference since 1960, the stadium is named after James A. Beaver, a former governor of Pennsylvania and president of the universitys board of trustees. Beaver Stadium has a seating capacity of 106,572, making it currently the second largest stadium in the Western Hemisphere. Beaver Stadium is widely known as one of the toughest venues for opposing teams in collegiate athletics, in 2008, Beaver Stadium was recognized as having the best student section in the country for the second consecutive year. Until 1893, Penn State teams participated in sporting events on Old Main lawn, in 1909, New Beaver Field opened just northeast of Rec Hall, roughly in the current location of the Nittany Parking deck. The stadium has been expanded six times, reflecting Penn States rise to prominence under Joe Paterno—more than doubling in size in the process. Expansions in 1972 brought capacity to 57,538, another expansion in 1976 increased capacity to 60,203. In 1980, maximum capacity increased to 83,770, in 1985, walkways were added around the tops of the end zones and entry ramps at the stadiums corners resulted in lowering the capacity to 83,370. An expansion was completed for the 1991 football season, placing an upper deck addition over the end zone. A major and somewhat controversial construction project took place in 2001, in 2006, the stadium underwent major structural and aesthetic upgrades. In 2007, over 22,000 student tickets sold out in 59 minutes, in 2008, when tickets were sold by grade, tickets allotted for junior students sold out in 90 seconds, and those for sophomores and freshmen sold out in under three minutes each. In 2011, the capacity was reduced from 107,282 seats to 106,572 to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. On the opposite side of the stadium, letters spelling, Penn State Nittany Lions have been added to the press box, in late October, the walls surrounding the field were refaced with Pennsylvania limestone. An iron gate has replaced the old chain-link face at the entrance into the stadium. On the new gate the words PENN STATE appear in blue, the two video boards together are some of the largest in college football. The renovation expanded the size of the boards by eliminating the current game clock. The boards are only the second of their kind made and are 4k UHD, the project was completed prior to the first home game of the 2014 season. Also on the back of both boards is a nittany lion logo that lights up at night and was added to promote the Penn State Brand, starting with the 2015 season fireworks are shot off from the top of each scoreboard when the team takes the field
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State College, Pennsylvania
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State College is a home rule municipality in Centre County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the largest designated borough in Pennsylvania, in the 2010 census, the borough population was 42,034 with approximately 105,000 living in the borough plus the surrounding townships often referred to locally as the Centre Region. Many of these Centre Region communities also carry a State College, State College is a college town, dominated economically and demographically by the presence of the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University. Though Happy Valley is another often-used term to refer to the State College area, the term includes the borough and the townships of College, Harris, Patton. In 2013, State College was ranked as the third-safest metropolitan area in the United States by the CQ Press, in 2016, State College was ranked the 8th best college town in the nation by Best College Reviews. State College evolved from a village to a town in order to serve the needs of the Pennsylvania State College, State College was incorporated as a borough on August 29,1896, and has grown with the college, which was renamed The Pennsylvania State University in 1953. The university has a post office address of University Park, Pennsylvania, when Penn State changed its name from College to University in 1953, its president, Milton S. Eisenhower, sought to persuade the town to change its name as well. A referendum failed to yield a majority for any of the choices for a new name, after this, Penn State requested a new name for its on-campus post office in the HUB-Robeson Center from the U. S. The post office, which has moved across an alley to the McAllister Building, is the official home of ZIP code 16802. State College is situated at an elevation of approximately 1,200 feet above sea level, according to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 4.5 square miles, all of it land. It is surrounded by large tracts of farmland, and an expanse of mountains, State College has a humid continental climate. Temperatures average 27.2 °F in January and 72.1 °F in July, annual precipitation averages 39.8 inches, with 45.9 inches of annual snowfall on average. With a period of dating back to 1893, the lowest temperature recorded was −20 °F on February 10,1899. According to the 2010 census, there are 42,034 people,12,610 households, the population density was 9,258.6 people per square mile. There were 13,007 housing units at a density of 2,865.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the borough was 83. 2% White,3. 8% Black or African American,0. 2% Native American,9. 8% Asian,1. 0% Other,3. 9% of the population were of Hispanic or Latino ancestry. 22,681 or 54. 0% of borough residents are males and 19,353 or 46. 0% are females,33. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.30 and the family size was 2.71
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Camp Randall Stadium
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Camp Randall Stadium is an outdoor stadium in Madison, Wisconsin, located on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. It has been the home of Wisconsin Badgers football since 1895, the oldest and fifth largest stadium in the Big Ten Conference, Camp Randall is the 41st largest stadium in the world, with a seating capacity of 80,321. The stadium lies on the grounds of Camp Randall, a former Union Army training camp during the Civil War, the camp was named after then Governor Alexander Randall, who later became Postmaster General of the United States. After an outcry from veterans over plans to turn the site into building lots, soon afterward, it was pressed into service as an athletic ground. It was originally used by the track and field team before the football and baseball teams moved there in 1895, however, the wooden bleachers were very difficult to maintain, and a portion of them were actually condemned as unsafe in 1914. The university then asked for $40,000 to build a concrete-and-steel stadium, however, after three sections of bleachers collapsed during a 1915 game, the state readily granted the additional money. The new stadium opened for the first time on October 6,1917 and it consisted of 7,500 concrete seats—roughly corresponding to the lower portion of the current stadiums east grandstand—and 3,000 wooden seats from the old field. After the wooden seats burned down in 1922, more permanent seats were added in stages until it consisted of an opening to the south, with a running track around the field. Originally natural grass, the field was one of the first in the United States to convert to artificial turf in 1968, superturf was installed in 1980, and a new AstroTurf field was installed in 1990, and replaced in 1998. A new type of grass, infilled FieldTurf, was installed for the 2003 season. The stadium also houses offices of the university. In 2002, a reconstruction project commenced, which added luxury boxes, a five-story office building. In addition, concessions, restrooms and other items were upgraded, the walkway around the field was removed. The construction was completed prior to the start of the 2004 season, the football team continued to play at the stadium throughout the construction. Also during this period of reconstruction at the stadium, changes were made to the team locker room. Known as one of the best visiting team locker rooms in the Big Ten Conference, it was painted a bright pink. Since this change, the Badgers have had a 43–4 home record, the numbers of Wisconsins two Heisman Trophy winners, Alan Ameche and Ron Dayne, are displayed on the upper deck façade. Both of their numbers are retired, The retired numbers of Elroy Hirsch, Dave Schreiner, Allan Schafer, at Barry Alvarezs final game as head coach in 2005, plans were announced to place a statue of him in the Stadiums Kellner Plaza
