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in dollars) | architect = John Latenser, Sr. and Sons Davis & Wilson | structural engineer = Meyer & Jolly | project_manager = Earl Hawkins | general_contractor = Parsons Construction Co. | tenants = Nebraska Cornhuskers (NCAA) (1923-present) NSAA state high school football finals (1996-present) | seating_capacity = 85,000〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Memorial Stadium )〕 | record_attendance = 91,585 (vs. Miami (FL) - Sept. 20, 2014) }} Memorial Stadium is located on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. It is the home of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team. The stadium holds an ongoing NCAA record of 347 consecutive sellouts, which began in 1962. When full, Memorial Stadium holds more people than any Nebraska city except Omaha and Lincoln. Because most fans wear red apparel, the stadium is referred to as the "Sea of Red" on game days. ==History== In the fall of 1922, a drive for $430,000 in funds to build a new football stadium was undertaken by faculty, students, alumni and friends of the university. Designed by John Latenser, Sr., a notable Omaha architect, the stadium was named Memorial Stadium to honor all Nebraskans who served in the Civil and Spanish-American Wars and the 751 Nebraskans who died in World War I. Later, the stadium would also honor the 3,839 Nebraskans who died in World War II; the 225 in Korea; and the 422 in Vietnam. Construction was completed in just over 90 working days; Memorial Stadium was dedicated on October 20, 1923. Inscribed on the four corners of the stadium are the following words, written by former Nebraska professor of philosophy Hartley Burr Alexander:〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Huskers.com )〕 *Southeast: "In Commemoration of the men of Nebraska who served and fell in the Nation's Wars." *Southwest: "Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game; In the deed the glory." *Northwest: "Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport." *Northeast: "Their Lives they held their country's trust; They kept its faith; They died its heroes." A statue of Nebraska former coach Tom Osborne and former Nebraska quarterback Brook Berringer can be found outside the north side of the stadium. Berringer was a quarterback on Nebraska's 1994 and 1995 national championship teams who died in a plane crash in April 1996, just two days before the 1996 NFL Draft where he was expected to be an early/middle round pick. Since 1996, Memorial Stadium has also been the host for the Nebraska School Activities Association's state high school football championship finals (playoff games prior to class championship matches are played elsewhere),〔http://www.dailynebraskan.com/memorial-stadium-will-host-high-school-football-championships/article_d8d8e5f9-8816-547f-990a-1a1d7df6c547.html〕 including the smallest schools that play the variant rule-sets of six-man football (until its disuse by the NSAA in 1998) and eight-man football (still played), despite playing on the larger, standard size field. Prior to the move to Memorial, finals for each class were played various local sites. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Memorial Stadium (Lincoln)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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