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in dollars) Renovations: $29.4 million ($ in dollars) Total cost: C$31.4 million in 2012 dollars | tenants= Montreal Alouettes (CFL) (1947-1967, 1998-present) McGill Redmen (CIS) | architect= Percy Erskine Nobbs | seating_capacity= Canadian football: 25,012 }} Percival Molson Memorial Stadium (also known in French as ''Stade Percival-Molson''; commonly referred to as Molson Stadium in English or Stade Molson in French) is an outdoor football stadium located downtown on Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Named in honour of Percival Molson, it is owned by McGill University and is home to the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League in 1947 until 1967 and from 1998 to present and the McGill Redmen of the Quebec University Football League. The Selwyn House Gryphons high-school football team also play their home games at the stadium. The stadium has a capacity of 25,012, the result of a renovation project begun in 2009 that increased capacity from the previous 20,202. ==History== Construction was completed in 1914 on what was then known as McGill Graduates stadium, which was located on the slope of Mount Royal, at the corner of University and Pine (avenue Des Pins). The stadium sat dormant through World War I with the cessation of football from 1914 to 1918. On July 5, 1917, Captain Percival Molson (1880–1917), a McGill University alumnus and sports star who had been instrumental in getting the stadium plan approved, was killed in action in France (Molson is the great-grandson of brewer John Molson). His will left $75,000 to the university to help pay most of the total costs for the completion of the stadium. Other individual donors whose generosity built and renovated the stadium were William C. Macdonald and John W. McConnell. Designed by Percy Erskine Nobbs,〔(''Virtual McGill'' )〕 the stadium was officially dedicated as McGill Graduates' Stadium at an intercollegiate track meet on October 22, 1915. It was renamed Percival Molson Memorial Stadium on October 25, 1919 by the university's Board of Governors, in honour of their fallen hero. The Montreal Alouettes played at the stadium from 1954 to 1967 before moving to the Autostade. When a revived Alouettes franchise was forced to move a playoff game out of Olympic Stadium due to a U2 concert, they moved the game to Molson Stadium. The game was a sellout, prompting the Als to make Molson Stadium their primary home the following season. However, all playoff games are played at Olympic Stadium, which until 2007 hosted at least one home game as well. Percival Molson stadium is also home of the Selwyn House Gryphons〔(Versusfootball.com - Le site web ultime pour les équipes, joueurs et fans de football! )〕 and the McGill Redmen football and rugby teams. It was the home of the CFL Montreal Alouettes from 1954 to 1967. The only Grey Cup game to have been played at Molson Stadium was in 1931. Nevertheless, it was the first time the Grey Cup had been contested outside of Ontario. It also served as a venue for field hockey, during the 1976 Summer Olympics.〔(1976 Summer Olympics official report. ) Volume 2. pp. 150-5.〕 It seated 20,202 and had been sold out for Alouettes games from August 12, 1999 until the 2009 renovation.〔(The CFL Publishes The 2008 Schedule | Montreal Alouettes )〕 The Alouettes' decision to return to the venue was problematic because the team was being sponsored by the Labatt Brewing Company and the stadium shared the name of its major competitor, Molson, though not named for it. Eventually, the team chose to change sponsors and have been sponsored by Budweiser since 2014. In 2004, The Alouettes installed a FieldTurf surface at Molson Stadium which is still in use. 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「Percival Molson Memorial Stadium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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