Gavin Hadden and Crescent Stadiums

Gavin Hadden is not widely known, but he deserves more recognition than he has received in recent years. I plan to conduct further research on Hadden for my next book, which will explore the history of football fields and stadiums. However, here's what I've discovered so far.

Hadden was born in 1888, attended Groton, and graduated from Harvard in 1910, where he was a reserve lineman. He also earned a graduate degree in civil engineering from Columbia in 1912 before launching his career in the fie...