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in dollars) $136.4 million (2004-2010 renovations) | architect = McCarty Holsaple McCarty (renovations) | former_names = Shields-Watkins Field (1921–1962) | tenants = Tennessee Volunteers (NCAA) (1921–present) | seating_capacity = 3,200 (1921-1925) 6,800 (1926-1928) 17,860 (1929-1936) 19,360 (1937) 31,390 (1938-1947) 46,390 (1948-1961) 52,227 (1962-1965) 58,122 (1966-1967) 64,429 (1968-1971) 70,650 (1972-1975) 80,250 (1976-1979) 91,249 (1980-1986) 91,110 (1987-1989) 91,902 (1990-1995) 102,544 (1996) 102,854 (1997-1999) 104,079 (2000-2005) 102,037 (2006-2008) 100,011 (2009) 102,455 (2010-present)〔http://www.utsports.com/sports/m-footbl/tenn-10-neyland-stadium.html〕 | record_attendance = 109,061, on September 18, 2004 (Tennessee 30, Florida 28) }} Neyland Stadium (''Neyland'' pronounced NEE-land) is a sports stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It serves primarily as the home of the Tennessee Volunteers football team, but is also used to host large conventions and has been a site for several NFL exhibition games. The stadium's official capacity is 102,455.〔 Constructed in 1921, the stadium has undergone 16 expansion projects, at one point reaching a capacity of 104,079 before being slightly reduced by alterations in the following decade. Neyland Stadium is the sixth largest stadium in the United States,〔(Neyland Stadium / Shields-Watkins Field ), ''Volmanac'', 2011. Retrieved: 6 September 2011.〕 the eighth largest stadium in the world, and the second largest stadium in the Southeastern Conference. The stadium is named for legendary UT football coach Robert Neyland (1892–1962). ==History== The Tennessee Volunteers football team originally played at Baldwin Park, which was once located between Grand Avenue and Dale Avenue, north of Fort Sanders.〔 From 1909 to 1920, the team played at Wait Field, which was located where the Walters Life Science Building now stands.〔Jim Matheny, "(Why Do They Call It That? - Shields-Watkins Field )," ''WBIR.com'', 4 November 2011. Retrieved: 15 November 2011.〕 Neyland Stadium was first conceived in 1919. Colonel W.S. Shields, president of Knoxville's City National Bank and a University of Tennessee trustee, provided the initial capital to prepare and equip an athletic field. Thus, when the original stadium–the lower level of the current stadium's West Stands– was completed in March 1921, it was called Shields-Watkins Field in honor of the donor and his wife, Alice Watkins-Shields. However, the project ran out of funds and was unfinished temporarily until MacGregor Smith (1921) suggested at a meeting of the University's Scarabbean Senior Society that the students and faculty finish the project together. At the group's behest, students and faculty finished the field over a two-day period. An invitational track meet was then held as a celebration and thus became the very first event at Neyland Stadium.〔"Scarabbean Senior Society at the University of Tennessee: Its Origin, Purpose, Methods of Operation, and Achievements," L.R. Hesler, University of Tennessee Libraries, Special Collections, unlisted students affairs box〕 The first UT football game at the stadium took place on September 24, 1921, with the Vols defeating Emory & Henry, 27–0.〔 The first night game at Neyland Stadium was played on September 16, 1972, with the Vols defeating Penn State, 28–21.〔 In 1962, the stadium was renamed Neyland Stadium in honor of General Robert Neyland, the recently deceased former athletic director and coach. Neyland, the man credited with making the Vols a national football power, coached the team from 1926–1952, with two interruptions for military service. Reflecting the Vols' growth in stature, the stadium's capacity jumped more than 14-fold during his 38-year association with UT as either an assistant coach (1925), head coach (three separate tenures from 1926 to 1952), or athletic director (1946-1962). By comparison, when it had originally been built in 1921, it was not even a fraction the size of Tennessee's largest football stadium at the time, Vanderbilt's Dudley Field. Shortly before his death, he spearheaded the stadium's first major expansion. The plans he drafted were so far ahead of their time that they have formed the basis for every expansion since then. The playing surface is still named Shields–Watkins Field. The latest additions and updates to the facility were part of a $136.4 million series of renovations, beginning in 2004 and completed by 2010. They included the bricking around the field and the removal of the previous hedges, numerous changes to the inside and outside of the stadium structure, additions and reconfigurations of seating areas, as well as new home locker, press, and varsity rooms.〔 In a Spring 2001 poll in ''The Sporting News'', Neyland Stadium was ranked as the nation's #1 college football stadium. In 2004, ''Sports Illustrated'' ranked Neyland Stadium, the University of Tennessee campus, and the surrounding Knoxville area, as the best college football weekend experience. On April 8, 2009, it was announced that Neyland Stadium was one of the 70 stadia named for the United States' bid to either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.〔()〕 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「Neyland Stadium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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