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By the 1970s, Goodwin Stadium had fallen into disuse, while the land it sat on was needed by the university. In 1976, the west side of Goodwin Stadium was knocked down, with the east side following in 1978. A road (Lemon Street) was extended through the property; a parking garage now occupies the
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as one of the project's superintendents), it cost $ 87,500 to build and seated an additional 5,300. In 1946, to accommodate overwhelming growth in the university, a men's dormitory was added to the grandstand at a cost of $ 275,000. The dormitory housed 88 men at normal capacity. The East stands
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delivered an address at Goodwin Stadium, titled "Religious Witness for Human Dignity". The address was not noted in many biographies of King and was only found in 2013, when a woman discovered it along with reels from civil rights leader
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were constructed on the site north of the extended Lemon Street. A plaque placed on the northwest corner of the parking garage, at College Avenue and Lemon Street, commemorates Goodwin Stadium's existence.
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until 1969. The stadium held 15,000 people at its peak and was opened in 1936. The first football game played was on Friday, October 3, 1936, when the Arizona State Teacher's College Bulldogs defeated
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also served as Haigler Hall, a men's dormitory. It was named after Charles Haigler, a member of the first football team at Tempe Normal School.
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Goodwin Stadium first hosted the Sun Devils in the 1936 season, after the completion of its west side grandstand. The western portion was a
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project, built at a total cost of $ 92,000. This first grandstand had room for 4,000 spectators. The contractor for Goodwin Stadium was
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Alfred Thomas, "A Documentary History of Arizona State University", Vol. 4, Part X: Buildings, 1960.
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26–0. The last football game played was on September 20, 1958, when ASU beat
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southern half of the footprint, while several buildings of the
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in 1940–41. Designed by influential Phoenix architects
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The stadium was named for Garfield A. Goodwin, former
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Tempe, Arizona
Arizona State University
Lescher & Mahoney
Kemper Goodwin
Del E. Webb Construction Company
Works Progress Administration
stadium
Tempe
Arizona
Sun Devils
football
Sun Devil Stadium
Tempe High School
California Institute of Technology
Hawaii
mayor of Tempe
Public Works Administration
Del E. Webb Construction Company
Works Progress Administration
Lescher & Mahoney
Kemper Goodwin
Martin Luther King Jr.
Lincoln Ragsdale
Goodwill
G. Homer Durham
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
W. P. Carey School of Business
"Tempe High History"
the original
"ASU rephotographed: A look at Tempe campus then and now"

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