Talk:Beaver Stadium

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This is missing the expansion in 1991 which brought the capacity to somewhere around 92-93,000.

• Now added.

Caption for the picture of the O State game is wrong. Consider adding a Top Ten list of most attended games. I don't have one handy. Start a movement to add 400 seats to Beaver Stadium. OK, just kidding about the last one. Rob 02:35, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I have a program for the O State game. It lists the 110,753 crowd figure as the figure for the 2002 Nebraska game, and so does GOPSUSports and so does this from OSU unfortunately. I sill can't find a handy link for Top 10 Crowds. Rob 00:50, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Found refs for #1 and #2 crowds though, removed {{fact}} tag. Rob 01:07, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

I changed the section dealing with the claim of the stadium being the 3rd largest city in PA. The previous statement indicated that the area was the 3rd largest, when in fact Penn Staters consider the stadium its self to be the 3rd largest and ignore the surrounding population. I attend Penn State and can tell you first hand that this is the case. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.71.101.116 (talk • contribs) 09:11, 9 November 2006 (UTC).

I disagree. I attend Penn State and I have always heard the claim as State College becoming the 3rd largest city in Pennsylvania. --Mithunc 21:33, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Look at the capacity of the stadium or look at record attendances the recent Penn State vs Michigan game had 110,000+ people in the stadium which puts it squarely in 3rd place. Include the surrounding population if you like however the stadium by itself is large enough to quallify. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.81.94.208 (talk • contribs) 01:11, 26 November 2006 UTC.

[edit] Redundant photos?

I love 'the Beav' just as much as the next PSU fan, but do we really need three photos inside the stadium that basically show the same thing? It seems to make the article a bit cluttered and that room could be better used for things like statistics (home records, attendance numbers, expansion through the years) and photos (like the new limestone wall, the historical markets, the years added to the luxury suites). Does anyone have any objections to removing the in-text photos? PSUMark2006 22:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I think this is a pretty good point. I'd say be bold and go ahead and do it, but until we have something to replace those pictures with, I guess they're OK where they are for now. They can be removed as they are replaced with better pictures or better information. That aside, I'm not too hot on the current pictures myself (cloudy day, seats not filled, etc.). --Mithunc 04:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)