{"id":3127,"date":"2016-09-29T08:16:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T13:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2016-08-25T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T13:21:09","slug":"stadium-firsts-ute-stadium-1011927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/stadium-firsts-ute-stadium-1011927\/","title":{"rendered":"Stadium Firsts: Ute Stadium, 10\/1\/1927"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For seven decades the University of Utah football team called Ute Stadium &#8212; renamed Rice Stadium in 1972 &#8212; its home. With an original seating capacity of 20,000, Ute Stadium opened its doors just eight months after ground was broken. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alumni.utah.edu\/continuum\/winter98\/sidelines.html\" target=\"_blank\">According to piece<\/a> from Utah University&#8217;s magazine, the total cost of the stadium was $133,000, or less than $2 million in 2016 dollars. Amazing!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/ncaaf\/seasons\/1927\/10-01_com-utah.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/ncaaf\/seasons\/1927\/images\/ncaaf-program_1927-10-01_com-utah.jpg\" alt=\"Utah Utes vs. Colorado Mines Orediggers (October 1, 1927)\" width=\"600\" height=\"834\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Utah Utes vs. Colorado Mines Orediggers (October 1, 1927)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first game in the brand-new Ute Stadium featured a matchup between Utah and the Colorado School of Mines. It wasn&#8217;t even close, and the home fans enjoyed the Utes blowing out the Orediggers, 40-6. Three weeks later the stadium was dedicated during <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/ncaaf\/seasons\/1927\/10-22_colo-utah.html\">an October 22 game<\/a> against the Colorado Buffaloes.<\/p>\n<p>Ute\/Rice Stadium was replaced in 1997 by what is now Rice-Eccles Stadium, which stands on the same spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For seven decades the University of Utah football team called Ute Stadium &#8212; renamed Rice Stadium in 1972 &#8212; its home. With an original seating capacity of 20,000, Ute Stadium opened its doors just eight months after ground was broken. According to piece from Utah University&#8217;s magazine, the total cost of the stadium was $133,000,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[240,14,419,227,420],"class_list":["post-3127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stadium-firsts","tag-1920s","tag-programs","tag-university-of-utah","tag-utah-utes","tag-ute-stadium","wpcat-10-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3628,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/3628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}