Stadium Cheer Black and White

Penn State cheerleader leading a cheer at Beaver Stadium during a Penn State Football Game.... more

by Tom Gari Gallery-Three-Photography

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Stadium Cheer Black and White

Artist

Tom Gari Gallery-Three-Photography

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Photograph - Photography

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Penn State cheerleader leading a cheer at Beaver Stadium during a Penn State Football Game.
Beaver Stadium is home to the Penn State Nittany Lions in University Park, The Pennsylvania State University is part of the Big Ten Conference and has seven home games a year. These are the only time the stadium is open. The stadium is named for James A. Beaver, a former governor of Pennsylvania (1887 1991) and president of the university's board of trustees. There are parts of the stadium that go back to the original beaver stadium in 1909. Beaver Stadium has a seating capacity of 106,572, which ranks it as the second-largest stadium in the Western Hemisphere and the fourth-largest in the world. There is a special section called "S-zone". It is a small section behind the end zone, all students are given white and blue shirts by the Pennsylvania State University Lion Ambassadors to create an "S" in the senior student section. Until 1893, Penn State teams participated in sporting events on Old Main lawn,. Then they moved to Beaver Field, a 500-seat structure located behind the current site of the Osmond Building. this was the first permanent home for Penn State's football team. In 1909, New Beaver Field opened just northeast of Rec Hall, roughly in the current location of the Nittany Parking deck. It served as Penn State's stadium until 1960, when the entire 30,000 seat stadium was dismantled and moved to the east end of campus, reassembled and expanded to 46,284 seats--the lower half of the current facility--and dubbed Beaver Stadium

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April 22nd, 2013