Stadiums make possible the spectacular staging of a society’s ideologies and self-perceptions. In the 1920s, the college football stadium became an increasingly popular venue to display such aspirations. In this period, college football and Major League Baseball were surging in popularity. College football’s rise to prominence convinced universities across the country to invest in building stadiums. Fans and alumni of these schools partnered with athletic departments to defeat faculty and administrators who believed that football’s crass commercialism had no place at institutions of higher
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