In honor of our upcoming matchup vs our onetime rival app state, here's a gem of a video I found of us playing them all the way back in 1937 when we were both Teacher's colleges.

https://youtu.be/4Ws5_UPjDn8?si=QgE48WAcsO2KElsG

Video starts and ends with the tweetsie railroad trip up and down the mountain, keep an eye out for the JC train depot 12 seconds in.

(04-05-2024 04:31 PM)GoBucs09 Wrote:  In honor of our upcoming matchup vs our onetime rival app state, here's a gem of a video I found of us playing them all the way back in 1937 when we were both Teacher's colleges.

https://youtu.be/4Ws5_UPjDn8?si=QgE48WAcsO2KElsG

Video starts and ends with the tweetsie railroad trip up and down the mountain, keep an eye out for the JC train depot 12 seconds in.

Thank you for posting that! That is a wonderful historical film of both schools' football history. Was that game played in Boone? It clearly shows the Depot functioning which is now Yee Haw. I wonder who made the film? It shows that going from Johnson City to Boone in those days was probably easier than it is today!

(04-05-2024 09:23 PM)bucfan81 Wrote:  

(04-05-2024 04:31 PM)GoBucs09 Wrote:  In honor of our upcoming matchup vs our onetime rival app state, here's a gem of a video I found of us playing them all the way back in 1937 when we were both Teacher's colleges.

https://youtu.be/4Ws5_UPjDn8?si=QgE48WAcsO2KElsG

Video starts and ends with the tweetsie railroad trip up and down the mountain, keep an eye out for the JC train depot 12 seconds in.

Thank you for posting that! That is a wonderful historical film of both schools' football history. Was that game played in Boone? It clearly shows the Depot functioning which is now Yee Haw. I wonder who made the film? It shows that going from Johnson City to Boone in those days was probably easier than it is today!

It looks to be up in Boone, which is too bad, I would have loved to see a video of our old stadium and campus back then. It appears before 1960 they played at another location on campus, you can see it here on the left edge of the picture: https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/items/show/8116

This is the only video I've been able to find of our stadium pre mini dome, us vs ECU in 1969:
https://youtu.be/cg_R370dY7M?si=IIG4zTZFhCgbUnei

Thanks for the memories. I’ve been around long enough to watch these three schools’ (APP State, ETSU, and ECU) go their various ways in athletics over the years. Nope, not from 1937. But, yea - did see ETSU football in the pre-Dome stadium. I have searched high and wide for information on a proposed expansion of that stadium back in the late 60s when ETSU first looked at joining the Southern Conference. ECU fought tooth and nail to become major football in NC over tremendous opposition. App State got there much easier in a different political age. Hey - App State was playing NAIA football when I was a student at ETSU and would not schedule us in football. We all know too well the history of ETSU football, and we still labor under that UT shadow. These archives reminds of a story of different cultures that endure to this day. Thanks again.

And, speaking of football — see football stadium in Master Plan 2023 below.

Has anyone seen an architectural illustration of the football stadium expanded to 30,000 seats?

https://www.etsu.edu/facilities/planning...mp2023.pdf

(04-06-2024 06:06 PM)Buc66 Wrote:  Thanks for the memories. I’ve been around long enough to watch these three schools’ (APP State, ETSU, and ECU) go their various ways in athletics over the years. Nope, not from 1937. But, yea - did see ETSU football in the pre-Dome stadium. I have searched high and wide for information on a proposed expansion of that stadium back in the late 60s when ETSU first looked at joining the Southern Conference. ECU fought tooth and nail to become major football in NC over tremendous opposition. App State got there much easier in a different political age. Hey - App State was playing NAIA football when I was a student at ETSU and would not schedule us in football. We all know too well the history of ETSU football, and we still labor under that UT shadow. These archives reminds of a story of different cultures that endure to this day. Thanks again.

The only thing I've seen on an expansion of our old outdoor stadium is a picture of John Robert Bell holding a diagram of what seems to be plans for an expansion of the West side stands in the 1971 yearbook:

Page 38 according to the yearbook itself, page 43 according to my PDF reader:

https://dc.etsu.edu/yearbooks/54/

(04-09-2024 09:41 AM)GoBucs09 Wrote:  

(04-06-2024 06:06 PM)Buc66 Wrote:  Thanks for the memories. I’ve been around long enough to watch these three schools’ (APP State, ETSU, and ECU) go their various ways in athletics over the years. Nope, not from 1937. But, yea - did see ETSU football in the pre-Dome stadium. I have searched high and wide for information on a proposed expansion of that stadium back in the late 60s when ETSU first looked at joining the Southern Conference. ECU fought tooth and nail to become major football in NC over tremendous opposition. App State got there much easier in a different political age. Hey - App State was playing NAIA football when I was a student at ETSU and would not schedule us in football. We all know too well the history of ETSU football, and we still labor under that UT shadow. These archives reminds of a story of different cultures that endure to this day. Thanks again.

The only thing I've seen on an expansion of our old outdoor stadium is a picture of John Robert Bell holding a diagram of what seems to be plans for an expansion of the West side stands in the 1971 yearbook:

Page 38 according to the yearbook itself, page 43 according to my PDF reader:

https://dc.etsu.edu/yearbooks/54/

I can vaguely remember the discussions that went on about the stadium. Back in those days the trend was toward multi-purpose facilities. NFL teams and MLB teams would often be playing in the same stadiums as cities thought that was the way to go. Also the stadium could not really be expanded on the East side as the grand stands were right up against the Music and Language buildings and there was no room. That is why the gridiron in the Dome is further to the West than the original field. There is some tribute to the old stadium in The Greene with the bowl effect and a grassy bank on the North side. But I think the multi-purpose ideas won out in those days over the expansion of the West side grand stands.

Buc66 and bucfan81, I've only been around since after the minidome was built, I've always wondered, was the back of Burleson hall designed as a press box for the old stadium? It has a ton of windows that would have been facing the field. You can see it here in a street view 360 on Google maps:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/bzAKHkGWegioF7Kk6

Kinda neat if so, there really isn't anything else left of the old stadium.

(04-18-2024 03:32 PM)GoBucs09 Wrote:  Buc66 and bucfan81, I've only been around since after the minidome was built, I've always wondered, was the back of Burleson hall designed as a press box for the old stadium? It has a ton of windows that would have been facing the field. You can see it here in a street view 360 on Google maps:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/bzAKHkGWegioF7Kk6

Kinda neat if so, there really isn't anything else left of the old stadium.

No the press box was on the other(West) side. Burleson was just a classroom building with the Math building just to its north. The math building was torn down years ago. Right next to Burleson was the Music building from which the marching band came down the steps into the stadium. The players had their dressing rooms in Brooks Gym and came out ran down a gravel path into the stadium. A pretty nice entrance for the time period. I wish the old stadium could have been updated but of course was too close to the academic buildings. Greene Stadium in a fitting tribute to it with the bowl effect and the grassy bank.