Utah’s stadium when I first attended

[ProudUte]

Actually, this photo was taken in 1929, two years after it was built.  The initial cost was $133,000 and the stadium held 20,000 fans.  In 1947 they added the north endzone and 10,000 more seats.  In 1972, Robert Rice donated 1 million dollars and astroturf was added. That’s when it became Rice Stadium. Later 2500 seats were added in the south endzone.   In 1997 they basically demolished the stadium and increased capacity to 45,000 and renamed the stadium Rice-Eccles because of the generous donation from the Eccles family.

[Charlie]

At some point they added the hill of dirt on the west side with crossing trails and lots of bushes. The area doubled as a urinal when the restrooms were packed. USU had the same thing going on their east side.

[ryynoo]

Not sure what happened to my original reply here, but here goes again….

 

I think there was an additional iteration where they lowered the field, removed the track and added additional seating on the sides. It might have been when they added the South Endzone addition.

[ProudUte]

I think you are right.  I think that happened in about 1983.

[Author]

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