Facilities
Oklahoma state plays in Boone Pickens Stadium on Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Lewis Field was built in 1913 but had no permanent seating until 1920. At that time the field was repositioned from north-south to an east-west configuration to avoid the strong prevailing winds of northern Oklahoma. To this day Boone Pickens Stadium is one of a very few major college football stadiums with an east-west configuration. The first addition came in 1924 with the concrete and steel portion of the stadium and by 1930 the capacity had risen to 13,000. By 1947 with addition of rows on the south side the capacity grew to over 30,000. In 1971 with a donation of over 2.5 million from T. Boone Pickens the stadium again was expanded and at that time held 50,440. Starting in 2003 Boone Pickens donated over 200 million dollars to the university to renovate the stadium yet again.
Read more about this topic: Oklahoma State Cowboys Football
Famous quotes containing the word facilities:
“I have always found that when men have exhausted their own resources, they fall back on “the intentions of the Creator.” But their platitudes have ceased to have any influence with those women who believe they have the same facilities for communication with the Divine mind as men have.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)