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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

They call it the Cathedral of College Basketball, and the pews end right at the court. The Palestra at 235 South 33rd Street on the University of Pennsylvania campus opened on January 1, 1927, with Penn beating Yale before roughly 10,000 fans - the largest crowd ever to watch a basketball game on the East Coast at the time, thirty-six years after Dr. Naismith hung his first peach basket. Architect Charles Klauder - designer of Franklin Field and college campuses across America - delivered the b...