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PARKS 



designed for the practice, exhibition and viewing of several types of games 

 and sports such as baseball, football, soccer, and track and field sports. 

 There are a few designed for the playing of special games such as the Yale 

 Bowl for football and the Forest H^ills Stadium for tennis. All the municipal 

 stadiums existing at the present time are general purpose stadiums. 



The original Greek stadium took its form primarily from the require- 

 ments of track and field sports. These same requirements to a very large 

 degree determine the general design of most of the stadiums in America, 

 although to the original purpose of the stadium has been added the playing 

 of several types of highly organized competitive games. 



The general design of a running track layout is that of an elongated 

 oval within the inner borders of which there is ample space for laying out 

 the playing areas necessary for football, baseball, soccer, and various types 

 of field sports. There is sometimes sufficient space to provide some minor 

 game areas. A few stadiums have a playing area within the track large 



PLATE No. 59 

 A SECTION OF STADIUM, BROOKSIDE PARK, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 



This stadium seats 52,250 but can be expanded to seat 75,000. The field is 275 feet wide and 475 feet long. 

 The entire stadium area covers 14 acres. There are 20 tunnel entrances and two portal entrances; 60 rows of seats 

 at one end and 78 rows on the sides. It is open at one end and elliptical in shape. This illustrates the use of mounds 

 to support the seat tiers which rest on embankments formed by excavation and dirt fill. The retaining walls and 

 tunnels are of concrete and seats are of wood. 



