The Yale Bowl
Location	276 Derby Ave West Haven, CT 06516-1046
Broke ground	August, 1913
Opened	November 21, 1914
Owner	Yale University
Operator	Yale University
Surface	Natural Grass
Construction cost	$750,000
Architect	Charles A. Ferry, Class of 1871
Tenants
Yale Bulldogs (football) New York Giants (NFL) (1973-1974) Connecticut Bicentennials (NASL) (1976-1977)
Capacity
64,269

The Yale Bowl is a football stadium in New Haven, Connecticut on the border of West Haven. Completed in 1914, the stadium seats 64,269 – reduced by renovations from the original capacity of 70,869. It is the home to the Yale University football team (the "Bulldogs" or the "Elis"), and also hosted the New York Giants from 1973–1974 while Yankee Stadium was being renovated and Giants Stadium was under construction. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 480 pixelsFull resolution (1200 × 720 pixel, file size: 128 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) (All user names refer to en. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... City East Rutherford, New Jersey Other nicknames Big Blue Wrecking Crew, Big Blue, G-Men, The Jints, The New York Football Giants Team colors Royal Blue, Red, Gray, and White Head Coach Tom Coughlin Owner John Mara (50%) and Steve Tisch (50%) General manager Jerry Reese League/Conference affiliations National... The National Football League (NFL) is the largest and most prestigious professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions. ... Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Connecticut Bicentennials and Hartford Bicentennials were a soccer team based out of Hartford that played in the NASL. Their home fields were Dillon Stadium and Yale Bowl. ... Nasl, or El Nasl, is one of the names given to the star Gamma-2 Sagittarii in the constellation Sagittarius NASL is a common abbreviation for the North American Soccer League, a defunct professional soccer league that operated between 1968 and 1984. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the 1976 Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Telstra Stadium in Sydney, Australia is capable of being converted from a rectangular rugby football field to an oval for cricket and Australian rules football games This article is about the building type. ... Nickname: Location in Connecticut Coordinates: , NECTA New Haven Region South Central Region Settled 1638 Incorporated (city) 1784 Consolidated 1895 Government  - Type Mayor-board of aldermen  - Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. ... West Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Seating capacity refers to the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, either in terms of the space available, or in terms of limitations set by law. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... City East Rutherford, New Jersey Other nicknames Big Blue Wrecking Crew, Big Blue, G-Men, The Jints, The New York Football Giants Team colors Royal Blue, Red, Gray, and White Head Coach Tom Coughlin Owner John Mara (50%) and Steve Tisch (50%) General manager Jerry Reese League/Conference affiliations National... Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... This is about the stadium the New York Yankees currently play in. ... Giants Stadium, also called The Meadowlands, is the home stadium for the New York Giants and New York Jets NFL football teams, and Red Bull New York (formerly MetroStars) of Major League Soccer. ...

Ground was broken on the stadium in August of 1913. It was built into an enormous natural bowl located several miles west of Yale's main campus at The Walter Camp Field, with locker rooms located under the sidelines. It was the first natural bowl stadium in the country, and provided inspiration for the design of such stadiums as the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Rose Bowl, and Michigan Stadium. (Yale's arch-rival, Harvard, has the first concrete stadium and first "horseshoe"-shaped stadium, which is another major prototype for football stadia.) The current scoreboard (notable for the time clock being arranged vertically instead of horizontally) was added in 1958, and in 1986 the current press box was added. The facility was designed to partially echo the campus's neogothic design. As such, parts of the façade were treated with acid to imitate the effects of aging, a procedure that has instead required constant upkeep and renovation to prevent deterioration. As of summer, 2005, many of the outside retaining walls and portal entries were deteriorating as a result. However, in the spring and summer of 2006, the bowl underwent a full-scale renovation, which was finished just in time for the Yale home-opener on Saturday, September 16, 2006. For other uses, see Memorial Coliseum (disambiguation). ... The Rose Bowl is a stadium in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena, California. ... Michigan Stadium, nicknamed The Big House, is the football stadium for the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ... Harvard Stadium is a football stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. ... Neo-gothic architecture is an American branch of the Gothic revival style that was imported from England in the 1830s. ...

In the summer of 1980, the "Bowl" hosted an outdoor concert with Eagles, Heart, and The Little River Band. A picture from the show can be seen on the Eagles double live album. Eagles are an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. ... The heart and lungs, from an older edition of Grays Anatomy. ... Little River Band is an Australian rock music band. ... Eagles are an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. ...

On Friday, October 5, 2001, the closing ceremony of the Yale Tercentennial was held at the Yale Bowl. Guests included Tom Wolfe '57, William F. Buckley '50, Sesame Street's Big Bird, Paul Simon '96, and Garry Trudeau '70.

The Connecticut Tennis Center (owned by Yale), home to the annual ATP/WTA event (the Pilot Pen tournament), is located across Yale Avenue from the stadium. The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) was formed in 1972 to protect the interests of male professional Tennis players. ... The Womens Tennis Association, is also known as the WTA Tour, and is to womens tennis what the ATP is to mens tennis. ...

Gallery

The exterior Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 797 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3296 × 2480 pixel, file size: 2. ...

Bulldog gargoyle on pressbox Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A gargoyle adorning the Dornoch Cathedral in Dornoch, Scotland. ...

"The Game", 2005 Image File history File linksMetadata The_Game_at_Yale,_2005. ... Half-time festivities at The Game, Yale Bowl The Game (always capitalized) is a title given to several U.S. college football rivalry games, but most particularly the annual contest between the Harvard University Crimson and the Yale University Bulldogs. ...

Half-time activities, the Yale-Harvard game, 2001 Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1000x562, 443 KB) Halftime activities at The Yale-Harvard Game at the Yale Bowl, 2001. ...

External links

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