Tiger Stadium (LSU)
Tiger Stadium is an outdoor stadium located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is best known as the home stadium of the Louisiana State University Tigers football team. Prior to 1924, LSU played its home games at State Field which was located on the old LSU Campus in Downtown Baton Rouge.
Tiger Stadium opened with a capacity of 12,000 in 1924. Renovations and expansions have brought the stadium's current seating capacity to 92,400, making it the tenth largest stadium in the NCAA and the seventeenth largest stadium in the world. When filled to capacity, Tiger Stadium ranks as the sixth largest "city" by population in the state of Louisiana.
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Famous quotes containing the words tiger and/or stadium:
“When there is no tiger on the mountain, the monkey becomes king.”
—Chinese proverb.
“In their eyes I have seen
the pin men of madness in marathon trim
race round the track of the stadium pupil.”
—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)