In 1919 the Ohio State University trustees dedicated 92 acres west of Neil Avenue along the Olentangy River for the construction of Ohio Stadium to house the popular Buckeyes football team that was at the time playing at Ohio Field. President William Oxley Thompson called it the University’s “greatest single enterprise.” The information on this print of Ohio Stadium, stamped with the date 1920, reads: “Columbus, Ohio, For Release September 1. — Perspective of The New Ohio Field at Ohio State University, here, showing the proposed Ohio Stadium at its head, to build which the alumni, students and friends of the University will raise, through popular subscription, a fund of $1,000,000 during October. The New Ohio Field which the Stadium will dominate comprises 92 acres of land along the banks of the Olentangy river. It was given the institution by the Board of Trustees for transformation into America’s greatest playground.…
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