Empire Stadium

The Empire Stadium is the name of three stadia:

  • Empire Stadium (Vancouver), Vancouver, Canada, now closed
  • Wembley Stadium (1923), Wembley, England, originally called Empire Exhibition Stadium later renamed Wembley Stadium, replaced in 2007 by a new Wembley Stadium
  • Empire Stadium, Gżira, Malta, now closed

Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or stadium:

    “now
    I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found
    Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew
    When Alexander’s empire passed, they slept so sound.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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)