Trivia
Memorial Stadium was the site of a world record time in the mile on June 23, 1967. The record time of 3:51.1 was set by American Jim Ryun.
The very first football game at Memorial Stadium between Boise Junior College and Bakersfield College in 1955 was broadcast nationwide on the Mutual Broadcasting System's radio network. Boise Junior College would later become Boise State University.
In 1963, Memorial Stadium hosted an exhibition fundraising football game played between the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers. This game was called The Children's Bowl.
When the Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s, Memorial Stadium was considered for, and finally turned down for, the L.A. Raiders pre-season training facility.
McDonald's used Memorial Stadium and the Bakersfield College swimming pool as a backdrop for its Olympic television advertising campaign for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The top row of seats on Memorial Stadium's upper decks are higher above the playing surface than the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum's highest row is above the Coliseum's playing surface.
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