1959 Proposal for Pitt Stadium Renovation

[giveitarest]

I wish duckpins would make a comeback. Nowhere to be found in the area. That or BYOB whirlyball.

I believe there is still duck pin bowling in Dormont on West Liberty ave. In plaza by Tom's diner

 

[Zeldas Open Roof]

I believe there is still duck pin bowling in Dormont on West Liberty ave. In plaza by Tom's diner

no, I've been there. that's a cool little bowling alley cause it's byob but they don't have duck pin bowling. that place literally has no rules

 

[ThatNehlenFeelin]

I’ve never seen nor heard of this proposal before. Very interesting. It’s hard to imagine Pitt Stadium with an upper deck, but I believe I read somewhere that it had the capability of adding an upper deck.

Why did Hamilton think that Pitt Stadium would be torn down upon the completion of a North Side stadium?

Also, my favorite Pittsburgh-sports-stadium-proposal-that-never-came-to-be is still the idea to build a stadium over the Monogahalea River that was proposed around the same time as this.

That's fascinating.. repair costs would be monumental though. Imagine if a barge hit the support columns. 70,000 seat baseball stadium would be horrible for the Buccos in this day and age.

 

[PittMiamiRivalry]

I'm pretty sure that in those cases there were other factors involved, and New York City schools would be terrible examples to begin with. Fordham would eventually bring back football (albeit as an FCS program), and I believe NYU (still a recognizable basketball name at the time the statement was made) would eventually get out of intercollegiate sports altogether.

OK, after Googling NYU, I have to edit. They did continue an intercollegiate athletic program (except for football, which was discontinued in 1952), but the remaining sports are Division III.

Football was king in the East in the 20s and 30s because the majority of the population lived there and the major media market was there. I know we often knock the administration, but somehow Pitt football survived the abyss of the 1940s, went to two bowl games in the 50s, and recovered again from the post-1963 Apocalypse with Johnny Majors 1. Hats off to all the major urban football powers who survived through the years.

 

[McKee Place]

Football was king in the East in the 20s and 30s because the majority of the population lived there and the major media market was there. I know we often knock the administration, but somehow Pitt football survived the abyss of the 1940s, went to two bowl games in the 50s, and recovered again from the post-1963 Apocalypse with Johnny Majors 1. Hats off to all the major urban football powers who survived through the years.

I have had fun at games and there have been great players here and there over the years. But, a single championship in 70 odd years, largely thanks to internal decisions rather than external forces, suggests Pitt would have been better off going the U of Chicago route.