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6B - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Friday, September 2, 2005
The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Friday, September 2, 2005 - 7B
SPORTS
SPORTS
SEATING CHART
THE NEW
KINNICK
Nile Clarke Kinnick is Iowa’s only
Heisman Trophy winner, and the All
American’s name is etched across
the façade of the stadium.
But it’s everything else he
represented that made him
unforgettable. The Iowa student was
class president, a Phi Beta Kappa
scholar, and a war hero.
Kinnick entered law school after
graduating in May 1940, but he
enlisted in the Naval Air Corps
Reserve soon after. On June 2,
1943, during a practice flight,
Kinnick lost control of his fighter
plane and crashed into the waters
off Trinidad.
Kinnick broke 14 school records
during the 1939 season and was
involved in 107 of Iowa’s 130 points.
He was awarded the Heisman Trophy
on Dec. 6 at the Downtown Athletics
Club in New York City, earning a
standing ovation with his speech.
“I thank God I was warring on the
gridirons of the Midwest and not the
battlefields of Europe,” Kinnick said.
“I can speak confidently and
positively that players of this country
would much more, much rather,
struggle and fight to win the
Heisman Award than the Croix
de Guerre.”
Beginning in 2006, the
press box will stretch
across almost the entire
west grandstand.
Two smaller scoreboards
flank the north side of the
stadium — one displays
video, the other shows
It took almost two years to plan
the new Kinnick Stadium and
less than a year to rebuild the
grand old Midwest venue.
The renovated stadium, set to
officially open its doors for the
first game against Ball State on
Saturday, is certain to thrill
Hawkeye fans for many
generations to come
BY THE NUMBERS
BRICK COUNT OF SOUTH END ZONE
400,000
SCOREBOARD WEIGHT IN POUNDS
100,000
NEW CONCESSION STANDS
6
NUMBER OF TOILETS
197
DECIBAL LEVEL OF SOUND SYSTEM
95
NUMBER OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS
750
CAPACITY
70,585
NEW ENTRANCES IN SOUTH ENDZONE
The shifted student section holds
10,000 and sits above the new tunnel
entrance for the Hawkeyes.
3
OUTDOOR CLUB SEATS
1150
ROUGH COST OF PROJECT
90,000,000
HOME LOCKERS
95
VISITOR LOCKERS
73
Thanks to former coach Hayden Fry
— a psychology major in college —
the visiting locker room is still pink,
to calm opponents before kickoff.
The 132-feet wide, 47-feet tall
videoboard produces 4.3 trillion shades
of color and sounds measuring
95 decibels.
BUILDING THE STADIUM - 1929
Fifty teams of horses and mules were
used to move dirt during the stadium’s
construction in 1929. The deeper the
teams dug, the more difficult it became
for the animals to work, resulting in
broken legs, exhaustion, or simply
being stuck in the mud. The
unfortunate horses were buried on the
spot in what is now the north end zone.
FINISHED PRODUCT - 1930
The stadium was built in just seven
months, and the first game was played
on Oct. 5, 1929. The plan called for
two identical grandstands with a
capacity of 45,000, and the project
cost was $497,000. In 1972,
the university changed the
football stadium’s name from Iowa
Stadium to Kinnick Stadium after the
fallen war hero.
PRESS BOX - 1958
PINK TIOLETS/URINALS
IN VISITING LOCKER ROOM
14
STUDENT SEATS
10,400
NUMBER OF PEOPLE NEEDED
TO OPERATE SCOREBOARD
8-10
The press box on the west side of
the stadium was completed in 1958,
costing $490,000. The structure is
100 feet high and extends between
the 20-yard lines. A new press box
will be completed for the 2006
season and will include private
suites, and indoor and outdoor club
seating options.
DW/DI