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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

The first radio broadcast of a college football game, the first stadium scoreboard, the first two-tiered stadium in America - and it is still hosting games 131 years on. Franklin Field, at 235 South 33rd Street on the University of Pennsylvania campus, was dedicated on 20 April 1895 for the first running of the Penn Relays, and the NCAA recognises it as the nation's oldest stadium still used for college football. The original 100,000-dollar wooden stands gave way in 1922 to the brick U-shaped l...