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Lair of the Lion:

A History of Beaver Stadium
  • ISBN-13: 9780271077765
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Lee Stout, By Harry H. West
  • Price: AUD $77.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/09/2017
  • Format: Hardback 196 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of architecture [AMX]
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Describes the evolution of Penn State's Beaver Stadium (originally Beaver Field) and its iconic status for the Penn State community. Traces the history of the stadium within the context of the university’s history and explores how fans have experienced football games from 1887 to the present.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Old Beaver Field

2 “Wish-Wack, Pink and Black, Go State Go”

3 New Beaver Field: The Wooden Era

4 New Beaver Field: The Steel Era

5 Football Games at New Beaver Field

6 Beaver Field Becomes Beaver Stadium

7 “The Big Lift”

8 The North-End Upper Deck

9 Beaver Stadium Becomes a Building

10 A New Era: Heritage Recognized

11 Continuity and Change on Game Day

12 Beaver Stadium’s Importance and Future

Afterword: The Power of Place

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Credits


“Sport teams often inspire a kind of devotion in their fans and their communities that, to the disinterested, can be difficult to comprehend. The fervor can approach the religious, and if the team itself represents the religion (or the god, if you prefer), then the stadium they play in is the church. In Lair of the Lion, authors Lee Stout and Harry H. West throw open wide the doors of one such church to look at its history, its engineering, and its construction: Beaver Stadium, home of the Penn State Nittany Lions, for decades one of the marquee teams in college football.”

—Ray Bert, Civil Engineering

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