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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1949)
Hayward Field Remodeling to Start 'Horseshoe' Scheduled To Begin Falling Mon. New Seating Plan to Accommodate 26,500; i Construction to be Completed by Next Season Tearing clown of the “horseshoe” grandstand at the East end oi Hayward field will begin Monday to make room for a new (grandstand, it was announced yesterday by Leo Harris, director of athletics. The work will be the first on a new plant which will seat 26,500 fans. The new construction includes one 60-row section • 200 feet long and two 30-row steel grandstands 80 feet long to be built as wings to the center section . The new stands will hold over 10,000 fans and will bring the total number of yardage seats to nearly 19.000. The work is ex pected to be completed in time for the opening home game of UKn cpncnn. ‘Hayward t i e l d 26,500 Seats 61% Sideline Tickets THIS ENGINEER’S drawing shows how Hayward Field’s seating arrangement has been planned aeeording to the major eonstruction schedule announced Thursday by Leo Harris, director of ath letics. Work will begin next Monday on the new plant which will seat 26,500 fans. The first steps, which start Mon day, will include tearing down of r the old horseshoe stands, a fixture at Hayward Hie d for a score of year. After the ground has been cleared, final plans will be laid for an early summer beginning of the actual construction on the new elands. Following tin' completion oi the track season, the present cast stands will be moved to the present north end /.one and will replace the old horseshoe. The stands will l>e installed 10 *eet behind the end /-one line. About «0 per cent of the present east grandstand will be utilized m providing 5,000 covered end zone seats. The new stands which will go up on .the east side will bridge re present track and eliminate future track meets on Hayward Field. better seating seen Harris said the move was made to provide better seats for the foot hall fans of Oregon. “We have en joyed wonderful support from the fans for the last few years and we are happy that their support has made this new construction P s aible. We hope that we will he able to continue in the future our plans to make Hayward Field among the best of the modern football stadi mns. We hope to be able to accomo date -36,000 fans before too many years pass.” The addition of Ihe new stands to Havward Field is the second in the last year. East summer the old south end zone bleachers were removed and replace! by 4,800 steel bleacher seats. The stadium renovation is part of the master plan to rthe entire athletic department, Harris stated. During last summer the entire basement of McArthur Court was rebuilt and additional work was done in the pavilUon to increase Un; seating to 8,000 for the 1019-..0 basketball season. IM Managers Meet Intramural managers of league loading volleyball teams will meet at \ p.m. Monday in room 106 P.K. building. Drawings for play-off berth* wall take place. SPORTS STAFF Dare Taylor .lolin Barton Jack I.andrud Sam Fid man Bill Willard The difference between a dress t e and a noose is that one is worn without a collar. Large Rally Crowd Watches Webfoots Prepare for OSC Oregon’s griddcrs practiced be fore 4500 cheering fans yesterday afternoon in a pre-homecoming rally on Hayward Field, and Coach Jim Aiken said afterward they are in perfect spirit for the Oregon State game. Aiken as captain for the OSC game, said in ft brief speech to the rally-assembled crowd that, “It is too bad people feel they have to fire up the team.” Bob Roberts, announced by Aiken as captain for the OSC game, said in a brief speech to the rally-assembled crowd that, “It is too had people feel they have to fire up the team.” Fullback Bob Sanders, hamp ered for the past two weeks by a side injury, and only at half strength against California, will be in full running shape for this game, according to Aiken. Sanders and George Bell, who led the fourth period running attack against the Bears last week, are in the best physical condition they have been in for some time, assert ed the head mentor. Both will be ready to start against the Aggies. On the black side of the pic ture, it is doubt fid if Halfback Johnny McKay will lie able to play in the game, due to his leg injury, picked up in the Wash ington game. Tn yesterday’s practice, Aiken, stated Bill Fell and Jack Gibilisco ran hard and looked good. Both speedy halfbacks, transfers this Hunter Upsets Gamma Hall Underdog teams bowled with vengeance Tuesday night as Hun ter defeated the league leading Gamma keglers 3-1. Stan Ray fell into fourth place behind Omega and Merrick by dropping all four points to Sigma. In other action Sherry Ross climbed into a seventh place tie by blanking Sederstrom 4-0 while Omega and Merrick remained in a lie by dividing 2-2. High net scores of the evening sa\v Clarence Naapi of Sherry Ross take both single game and series honors with scores of 225 and 569. High team single game and series scores were compiled by Merrick with scores of 524 and 1417. League standings: year from Compton Junior College, will probably get more than one chance to show their stuff in the Beaver trapping expedition tomor row. Gamma Omega Merrick Sigma Hunter Sherry Ross Sederstrom . Stan Ray . 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