the swamp
A hypothetical example of the environment of the University of Florida football field Lee Corso, an ESPN College Football Analyst once stated.
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, or “The Swamp,” is widely recognized as one of, if not the toughest, environments for a visiting team in all of college football. Several facelifts after the stadium’s original construction in 1930 have made Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium the state-of-the-art facility you see at today’s game. Without a bad seat in the house, "The Swamp" ranks as the largest stadium in the state of Florida. The Gators’ average home attendance last season was around 91,000 people per game, ninth in the country. Florida’s home record of 113 wins with only 13 losses since 1990 is the best mark in the country, proving that… at “The Swamp,” only Gators get out alive!!!
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium better known as the SWAMP is located in Gainesville Florida and is home field stadium of the University Florida Gators football team.
Furthermore, I’ll be informing the class on when the stadium was built the expanding, modernized and improvements made since1906 to where the stadium stands today.
I been a fan of the University of Florida football program, since I was a child and for the last couple of weeks, I been doing research, reading articles trying to get more familiar with the stadium history.
Under those circumstances, I’m going to start off with the creation of the stadium.
Shortly after the establishment of the University of Florida, the football program begun competing at the Athletic field in 1906, which was basically a grasses field with low bleachers.
Florida Governor Francis Fleming hosted many games at the University and in 1911 in honor to the former Florida Governor the University named their Athletic field (Fleming Field).
From 1911-1930 Florida played only 56 home games due to the facility limited of space only holding 5,000 people at their field they was forced to play at other stadiums
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, or “The Swamp,” is widely recognized as one of, if not the toughest, environments for a visiting team in all of college football. Several facelifts after the stadium’s original construction in 1930 have made Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium the state-of-the-art facility you see at today’s game. Without a bad seat in the house, "The Swamp" ranks as the largest stadium in the state of Florida. The Gators’ average home attendance last season was around 91,000 people per game, ninth in the country. Florida’s home record of 113 wins with only 13 losses since 1990 is the best mark in the country, proving that… at “The Swamp,” only Gators get out alive!!!
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium better known as the SWAMP is located in Gainesville Florida and is home field stadium of the University Florida Gators football team.
Furthermore, I’ll be informing the class on when the stadium was built the expanding, modernized and improvements made since1906 to where the stadium stands today.
I been a fan of the University of Florida football program, since I was a child and for the last couple of weeks, I been doing research, reading articles trying to get more familiar with the stadium history.
Under those circumstances, I’m going to start off with the creation of the stadium.
Shortly after the establishment of the University of Florida, the football program begun competing at the Athletic field in 1906, which was basically a grasses field with low bleachers.
Florida Governor Francis Fleming hosted many games at the University and in 1911 in honor to the former Florida Governor the University named their Athletic field (Fleming Field).
From 1911-1930 Florida played only 56 home games due to the facility limited of space only holding 5,000 people at their field they was forced to play at other stadiums