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on undeveloped land. The complex would contain a football field, track, lacrosse field, soccer field and baseball field. Making way for the new athletic fields, construction began by leveling the 18 acres of land the complex would sit on. The university was loaned wagons and scrapers for the project
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The new upgrades allowed around 16,000 people to attend events hosted at the field. For large events when more seating was necessary, temporary stands around the end zones were erected to form a complete bowl, bringing the total capacity to 20,000. Due to an increased press interest in the Nittany
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teams began playing home games on New Beaver Field, crowds easily filled the 1,200-capacity grandstands. The university continued to expand the seating capacity by building wood bleachers onto the existing grandstands. A total of 4,800 bleacher seats were added by the end of the 1920s, bringing the
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builder R. B. Taylor began to clear the land. Once completed the team of builders began digging drainage ditches and laying water pipes for upkeep of the fields. The construction team was paid a total of $ 15,000 (equivalent to $ 508,667 in 2023) for the excavation and $ 8,000 (equivalent to $
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and the Nittany Parking Deck and held 30,000 people at its peak. In addition to football, the stadium had a track as well as baseball, lacrosse, and soccer fields. In 1959, the entire structure was disassembled and moved to the northeast corner of campus, where it was reassembled, expanded, and
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total capacity of the stadium to 6,000. The stadium's seating was again restructured in the early 1930s due to increased student enrollment and ticket demand. The university demolished the old grandstands and installed two larger sets of bleacher seating on both the east and west sideline.
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As enrollments to the university and demand for tickets grew, Penn State planned to double the size of its steel grandstand seating, allowing for a total capacity of 27,720. The renovation began in 1948 and was led by Byron J. Lambert, a grandstand patent holder and former professor at the
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severely delayed the project, forcing renovations to be broken up and completed in four phases. Coming to completion in 1939, the renovation brought the seating capacity to 14,700. The steel grandstands gave the structure more of an air of permanence.
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271,289 in 2023) for ditch and pipe work bringing the total cost to $ 23,000 (equivalent to $ 779,956 in 2023).The state of Pennsylvania appropriated $ 15,000 for the field complex project. The university repurposed the existing
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in 1959, sections of the grandstand from New Beaver Field were moved and fitted against a new upper grandstand to build the large capacity Beaver Stadium. The stand sections were moved a mile and a half from their original location.
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which sat 200 and built two wooden bleachers on either side that sat 1,000 people, giving the stadium an initial total capacity of 1,200. Once finished the 17-acre complex was one of the largest athletic fields in the United States.
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the former president of the university who had died just years earlier. The field was dedicated on May 7, 1909, at an interscholastic track meet hosted by the university. The new complex received the name
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As construction was finishing a name had yet to be given to the field complex. This stirred up a debate amongst alumni and students about what the field should be named. Many wanted to keep the name
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the former governor of Pennsylvania and university board of trustees president that helped secure funding for the former field. Others suggested that the field should be named after
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The formerly all-wood grandstands and bleachers were replaced with steel starting in 1934. During the 1934 season, construction on the stadium cut seating capacity to 5,500. The
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After the removal of the grandstands in 1959 the parcel of land that New Beaver Field was located on was repurposed to build university education buildings and eventually the
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Lions, the university installed a press box in 1924. It was noted that the press box was a shack -like structure with little room for reporters.
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dubbed Beaver Stadium. Portions of the original 1909 design are still in use today. The stadium is named after
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View of a grandstand during a Penn State football game v Bucknell University on Nov. 12, 1910
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of Pennsylvania and a member of the school's board of trustees.
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announced its plans to create an athletic complex northeast of
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with the former Beaver Field being retroactively renamed
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by alumnus A. C. Reed and the team of workers led by
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Lair of the Lion : a history of Beaver Stadium
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University Park
Pennsylvania
Coordinates
40°47′48″N 77°52′11″W / 40.79667°N 77.86972°W / 40.79667; -77.86972
Penn State University
Capacity
Penn State football
Penn State men's soccer
Penn State baseball
Penn State men's lacrosse
Penn State track and field
stadium
University Park, Pennsylvania
Penn State University
football
Beaver Stadium
Beaver Field
Old Main Lawn
Rec Hall
Nittany Lion Inn
James A. Beaver
governor

Penn State
Rec Hall
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
grandstands
Beaver Field

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