Stagg Field was a stadium in Chicago, Illinois. It was primarily used for American football, and was the home field of the University of Chicago. Stagg Field originally opened in 1893 as Marshall Field after Marshall Field donated land to the university to build the stadium. In 1913, the field was renamed Stagg Field after their famous coach Amos Alonzo Stagg. The final capacity, after several stadium expansions, was 50,000. The University of Chicago would leave the Big Ten football after 1939 and the conference in 1946. The stadium would be demolished in 1957. Jump to: navigation, search The Olympia Stadium: start and finish lines visible, defining the length of one stadium (in this case 192. ... Jump to: navigation, search Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Marshall Field (1834 -1906) was founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago based chain of department stores. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 _ March 17, 1965), was a renowned American collegiate coach in multiple sports, primarily football, and an overall athletic pioneer. ... Big Ten can refer to: Big Ten Conference, a college athletics conference Big Ten (movie studios), the largest movie studios in Hollywood This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The field is more well known for its place in the Manhattan Project. On December 2, 1942 Enrico Fermi and his team set off the first nuclear chain reaction at Chicago Pile-1 in a racquets court under the west stands of the abandoned stadium. Control panels and operators for calutrons at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. ... Jump to: navigation, search December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year. ... Jump to: navigation, search Enrico Fermi in the 1940s. ... Albert Einsteins letter to President Roosevelt in 1939 about his concern, about (Nuclear chain reactions) Click for closeup of letter A nuclear chain reaction occurs when on average more than one nuclear reaction is caused by another nuclear reaction, thus leading to an exponential increase in the number of... On December 2, 1942, the worlds first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, Chicago Pile-1, took place on a squash court beneath Stagg Field on the University of Chicago campus. ... Racquets (also Rackets or Hard Racquets) is a game played in a 30 foot by 60 foot enclosed court, using a long wooden racquet and a small, hard ball. ...