Episode 30: If It Ain’t Swaying, We Ain’t Playing: The Evolution of South Carolina’s Football Field and Stadium.
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Description
When the Gamecocks take to the football field every fall, Williams-Brice Stadium roars with the full-throated spirit of 80,000-plus diehard fans, a battalion of marching band members, cheerleaders, baton twirlers and dancers. It’s a far cry from the first football game played on the University of South Carolina campus in 1898 when a few hundred fans huddled on simple wooden bleachers on a field situated about where the Russell House now stands on Greene Street.
Publication Date
8-24-2021
City
Columbia, SC
Keywords
football, football stadium, football field, Homecoming weekend, Municipal Stadium, Carolina Stadium, Thomas Brice, Martha Williams-Brice
Disciplines
History
Files
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