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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

When it opened it was the largest poured-concrete structure on Earth, and university officials worried it would never fill. Ohio Stadium at 411 Woody Hayes Drive in Columbus - The Horseshoe - has instead packed in crowds above 100,000 for a century of Ohio State football. The design solved a real problem: architect Howard Dwight Smith's double-deck horseshoe, the first in America, cantilevered the upper deck over the lower so tens of thousands could sit close to the field; the American Institut...