(10-22-2019 08:24 AM)Sitting bull Wrote:  

(10-22-2019 02:57 AM)nj alum Wrote:  Capacity used to be 15,000.

https://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index....le_Stadium

Not buying that. As I said, we know there were only 8900 permanent seats before the renovation. That's something you can actually count.

Anyway, the crowds were not any larger in the 70s. Always tons of empty seats.

Now you did it! You made me look it up!

I was wrong! Imagine that!

18,500 was the former capacity. :-)

https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/bitstream/...sAllowed=y

p. 28

We were always told that the old Cary Field seated 12,400, raised to 15,000 in the late 1970's, but I can find no solid source to confirm that. As Sitting Bull stated, many were often empty... whatever the total number.

Here are some interesting tidbits about Zable/Cary, one of the oldest football stadiums, still in use, in the country.

Zable Stadium was financed by a grant for construction through the Public Works Administration during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration (1935). Improvements in the past decade have boosted Zable Stadium's capacity to 12,400. However, in the 1985 Homecoming victory against Richmond, a record crowd of 18,054 packed the stadium and grounds.


Largest Crowds
Estimated 19,000 vs. UNC on Nov. 5, 1949 (BTW, Walt Zable played in this game, as well as the very first game at Cary, vs. UVA); 18,054 vs. Richmond on Nov. 16, 1985 (I was in the Press Box for this one. It was amazing to see that much humanity in the stadium)

A fire in 1948 on the left side of the stadium burned for two hours and cracked the concrete under the stand. However, the damage to the stadium was not too serious.


While William & Mary petitioned the Public Works Administration, in the 1930's, for funding to construct a number of buildings on campus, tax-payer dollars could not be used for the construction of athletic facilities. Rumors/Legend still persist to this day that in order to secure funding, William & Mary masqueraded the construction of the football stadium as an agricultural exposition or amphitheater, thus the opening on the visitor's side, under the old pressbox.

Whatever the story, we need to get to a stage where it is full and loud on a regular basis.

(10-22-2019 09:37 AM)billymac Wrote:  We were always told that the old Cary Field seated 12,400, raised to 15,000 in the late 1970's, but I can find no solid source to confirm that. As Sitting Bull stated, many were often empty... whatever the total number.

Here are some interesting tidbits about Zable/Cary, one of the oldest football stadiums, still in use, in the country.

Zable Stadium was financed by a grant for construction through the Public Works Administration during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration (1935). Improvements in the past decade have boosted Zable Stadium's capacity to 12,400. However, in the 1985 Homecoming victory against Richmond, a record crowd of 18,054 packed the stadium and grounds
Largest Crowds
Estimated 19,000 vs. UNC on Nov. 5, 1949 (BTW, Walt Zable played in this game, as well as the very first game at Cary, vs. UVA); 18,054 vs. Richmond on Nov. 16, 1985 (I was in the Press Box for this one. It was amazing to see that much humanity in the stadium)

A fire in 1948 on the left side of the stadium burned for two hours and cracked the concrete under the stand. However, the damage to the stadium was not too serious.


While William & Mary petitioned the Public Works Administration, in the 1930's, for funding to construct a number of buildings on campus, tax-payer dollars could not be used for the construction of athletic facilities. Rumors/Legend still persist to this day that in order to secure funding, William & Mary masqueraded the construction of the football stadium as an agricultural exposition or amphitheater, thus the opening on the visitor's side, under the old pressbox.

Whatever the story, we need to get to a stage where it is full and loud on a regular basis.

I believe the Norfolk State game in late 70’s was a standing room only game in which WM won.

SRO is what some folks are missing. Fire Marshall has become more strict in this regard over the decades.

(10-22-2019 01:42 PM)Duke of Gloucester Wrote:  I believe the Norfolk State game in late 70’s was a standing room only game in which WM won.

They added bleachers in all four corners for that game.

(10-22-2019 02:33 PM)Tribe4SF Wrote:  

(10-22-2019 01:42 PM)Duke of Gloucester Wrote:  I believe the Norfolk State game in late 70’s was a standing room only game in which WM won.

They added bleachers in all four corners for that game.

I remember the NSU band getting a standing ovation, the W&M band, not so much.

The fun part of the Norfolk State game was that everyone was wearing Green!. They traveled great.

(10-20-2019 05:28 PM)nogretheogre Wrote:  Dig the new video spot. If only we had some ESPN3 coverage to show it

In case anyone was wondering what song this was
Norman - Here We Go




Also, still like this one




Radical Face - Welcome Home

(10-23-2019 11:04 AM)nogretheogre Wrote:  Also, still like this one

Yes, that is a good video. I guess that I am showing my age but I don't recognize the "entertainment legend" (young woman of Asian descent pictured at 1:02 of the video).

(10-23-2019 11:22 AM)Zorch Wrote:  

(10-23-2019 11:04 AM)nogretheogre Wrote:  Also, still like this one

Yes, that is a good video. I guess that I am showing my age but I don't recognize the "entertainment legend" (young woman of Asian descent pictured at 1:02 of the video).

I would also like to know (and I know I'm younger than Zorch)

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Swimming in both.

(10-23-2019 11:43 AM)zablenoise Wrote:  

(10-23-2019 11:22 AM)Zorch Wrote:  [quote='nogretheogre' pid='16392208' dateline='1571846697']

Also, still like this one


Yes, that is a good video. I guess that I am showing my age but I don't recognize the "entertainment legend" (young woman of Asian descent pictured at 1:02 of the video).

I would also like to know (and I know I'm younger than Zorch)

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Pretty sure thats just a drama student. Potential is the point.

A shot of Glenn Close or John Stewart would have probably been more effective.

(10-23-2019 12:16 PM)billymac Wrote:  A shot of Glenn Close or John Stewart would have probably been more effective.

Yes, I definitely would have recognized them!

Where can we get some camo merch like that. Come on bookstore!

(10-22-2019 09:37 AM)billymac Wrote:  While William & Mary petitioned the Public Works Administration, in the 1930's, for funding to construct a number of buildings on campus, tax-payer dollars could not be used for the construction of athletic facilities. Rumors/Legend still persist to this day that in order to secure funding, William & Mary masqueraded the construction of the football stadium as an agricultural exposition or amphitheater, thus the opening on the visitor's side, under the old pressbox.

Whatever the story, we need to get to a stage where it is full and loud on a regular basis.

Don't ask me why I am reviewing posts from October of last year, but I thought I'd add that I have heard many people tell the same story -- except they say it explains the open end of Kaplan Arena. Maybe the story is true for both places?

(01-11-2020 01:13 PM)Marshall Wythe Wrote:  

(10-22-2019 09:37 AM)billymac Wrote:  While William & Mary petitioned the Public Works Administration, in the 1930's, for funding to construct a number of buildings on campus, tax-payer dollars could not be used for the construction of athletic facilities. Rumors/Legend still persist to this day that in order to secure funding, William & Mary masqueraded the construction of the football stadium as an agricultural exposition or amphitheater, thus the opening on the visitor's side, under the old pressbox.

Whatever the story, we need to get to a stage where it is full and loud on a regular basis.

Don't ask me why I am reviewing posts from October of last year, but I thought I'd add that I have heard many people tell the same story -- except they say it explains the open end of Kaplan Arena. Maybe the story is true for both places?

For Kaplan this isn't the case; it's just open to allow easy movement of equipment in and out for large events. It was built with the capacity to be an ACC facility, but likely the realization of needing to hedge against that reality and being able to use it to host major events.

Still say its too bad we didnt choose Woolly Mammoth. Someone else will. We blew it.

https://www.cnet.com/news/crispr-startup...s-by-2027/

Re attendance at Zable here are some points to remember:

*ODU has become a major presence in the area, competing for football fans that used to have only W&M playing football
on Saturdays on a Div I level. ODU flooded the local media since June with tv and newspapers commercials and ads, not to mention
major presence on the local tv and radio sports segments.

*We did no advertising to promote our games...none! Ans somehow we have almost disappeared from the local tv sports shows on
local news and article coverage in the sports sections of the Norfolk and Newports News papers.

*We know money is scarce, but our new AD must devote dollars promoting ticket sales to local tv, radio and newspapers next year
and, for that matter, to basketball. And the Tribe Athletic Department must run an all-out press to get our share of local radio,
yelevision and newspapers presence. It is, for example, rare indeed to see Coach London on one of the local tv sports shows
while the ODU coach appears to have set up headquarters at the local TV stations!

We need a renewed presence in the marketplace to sell tickets.