Franklin Field is an American sports stadium located in Philadelphia at the eastern edge of the University of Pennsylvania’s campus. It is the home stadium for the Penn Relays, and is the University of Pennsylvania’s stadium for football, track and field, lacrosse, and formerly for soccer, field hockey and baseball. It is also used by Penn students for recreation, and for intramural and club sports, including touch football and cricket, and is the site of Penn’s graduation exercises, weather permitting.
According to the NCAA, Franklin Field is the oldest stadium still operating for football (although substantially renovated). It was the first college stadium in the United States with a scoreboard or an upper deck of seats. In 1922, it was the site of the first radio broadcast of a football game 1922 on WIP, as well as of the first television broadcast of a football game by Philco. From 1958 until 1970, the stadium was the home field of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.
This U‑shaped stadium is one of the main campus landmarks, occupying nearly the entire block on which it sits, and facing the main part of the campus. The exterior articulation denotes two superimposed rows of stands. The ornament of the exterior consists primarily of the grandeur of its large and heroic form, featuring high, open arcades. The curved end section is set off from the sides by concave arched sections. Cast stone quoin‑like bands mark the exterior. The stadium is crowned by a northern Italian style, brick, battlemented parapet.
An excellently designed football stadium and venue for the Penn Relays track and field event, with accommodations of , approximately 70,000 seats. It is the oldest two-tiered stadium in the nation and at one time served as host to the Army-Navy games and the Philadelphia Eagles.
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