Nippert Stadium Musical Project   Save
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Description: Reverse reads: "Nippert Stadium Musical Project, Cincinnati, Ohio 1937." Nippert Stadium was completed in 1924 as a memorial to James Gamble Nippert, a law student at the University of Cincinnati who died in 1923 as a result blood poisoning from a spike wound received during a football contest. His grandfather, James H. Gamble, a soap manufacturer donated $250,000, as a memorial, to help complete the 12,000 seat stadium. Home of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats football team, has undergone multiple expansions and renovations through the years. The first was a W.P.A. sponsored seating capacity expansion in 1936, which lowered Carson Field 12 feet and doubled the stadium’s original capacity, now seating 24,000. Renovations again took place in 1954, adding the Reed Shank Pavillon and raising capacity to 28,000. More renovations were completed from 1989 to 1992 which expanded the stadium’s capacity to 35,000 More information is needed about the Musical Project held here around 1937. Other possibilities include: The University of Cincinnati has a Greek Amphitheater, described as having concrete steps (as in the photograph). Also, the Federal Music Project staged the H.M.S. Pinafore in 1936 at nearby Burnet Woods, and band concerts were often given from the open air bandstand, but it is unclear if this is somehow related. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F13_006_1
Subjects: University of Cincinnati; Education; Universities and colleges; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; College campuses--Ohio; University of Cincinnati. Bearcats (Football team); Football stadiums--Ohio; University of Cincinnati--Buildings--Pictorial works
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)