Notre Dame Stadium

The Notre Dame Stadium is an outdoor football stadium in Notre Dame, Indiana, the home field of the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish. It is located on the university's campus, just north of South Bend.

Opened 86 years ago in 1930, the stadium seating capacity was nearly 60,000 for decades. More than 21,000 seats were added for the 1997 season, which increased the capacity to over 80,000. The playing surface was changed to FieldTurf in 2014, after 84 seasons on natural grass.

History

The stadium opened its gates in 1930, replacing Cartier Field. The total cost of construction exceeded $750,000 and the original seating capacity was 54,000. Head coach Knute Rockne played a key role in its design, keeping the space between the playing field and the stands to a minimum. The stadium is patterned, on a smaller scale, after Michigan Stadium, the main difference being the tunnel location. In 1929, plans were started by Osborn Engineering of Cleveland, selected for their experience in designing Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park. The original stadium held 59,075 people, measured a half-mile (800 m) in circumference, stood 45 feet (14 m) high, and featured a glass-enclosed press box rising 60 feet (18 m) above ground level. Initial stands reached 55 rows. The building was built by the Sollitt Construction Company of South Bend. Earth preparation began in the fall of 1929, but due to an unusually cold fall and winter, above ground construction did not begin until April 2, 1930. This building was effectively built in six months. Over two million bricks were used in the construction of the walls and the concrete was placed in a monolithic continuous placement by section. There were over 300 workers on the site at most times and they worked five 10 hour days and one six hour day on Saturdays. The average worker was paid one dollar a day plus lunch with the more skilled workers earning up to five dollars a day.

Notre Dame

Notre Dame commonly refers to:

  • Notre Dame (Our Lady), a French title for the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Notre Dame de Paris, the most famous church with this name
  • University of Notre Dame, Indiana, United States
  • Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, athletic team of Univ. of Notre Dame
  • Notre Dame Educational Association, a network of Notre Dame Schools in the Philippines
  • It may also refer to:

    Christianity

    Churches and cathedrals

    Algeria

  • Notre Dame d'Afrique, Algiers
  • Cambodia

  • Notre Dame Cathedral (Phnom Penh)
  • Canada

  • Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal), in the historic district of Old Montreal
  • Notre-Dame Basilica-Cathedral (Quebec City), the primate church of Canada
  • Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa, an ecclesiastic basilica
  • Notre-Dame Church (Montreal), in Old Montreal
  • Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, Montreal
  • Notre Dame Convent and Boarding School, also known as Leipzig Convent, in Leipzig, Saskatchewan
  • France

    Notre Dame de Paris

    Notre-Dame de Paris (IPA: [nɔtʁə dam də paʁi](French   ) ; French for "Our Lady of Paris"), also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is a historic Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. The cathedral is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture, and it is among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world. The naturalism of its sculptures and stained glass are in contrast with earlier Romanesque architecture.

    As the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Paris, Notre-Dame is the parish that contains the cathedra, or official chair, of the Archbishop of Paris, currently Cardinal André Vingt-Trois. The cathedral treasury is notable for its reliquary which houses some of Catholicism's most important first-class relics including the purported Crown of Thorns, a fragment of the True Cross, and one of the Holy Nails.

    In the 1790s, Notre-Dame suffered desecration during the radical phase of the French Revolution when much of its religious imagery was damaged or destroyed. An extensive restoration supervised by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc began in 1845. A project of further restoration and maintenance began in 1991.

    Church of Notre Dame (New York City)

    The Church of Notre Dame in New York City is a parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The church is located at 40 Morningside Drive and the rectory at 405 West 114th Street in Manhattan, New York City.

    History

    Geraldyn Redmond donated funds to the Fathers of Mercy, a French community of priests, requesting they build a chapel to propagate devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes. They established the Church of Notre Dame in 1910 as a mission of the St. Vincent de Paul Parish on West 23rd Street. The first administrator of the parish was the Rev. Maurice Reynauld, S.P.M., who died in France during World War I. While in France in 1913, he affiliated Notre Dame Church with the Sanctuary of Our Lady in Lourdes, thus enabling worshipers at the Church of Notre Dame in New York City to obtain the spiritual benefits of worshipers at Lourdes. From the beginning of the parish, a special arrangement was made with the ecclesiastical authorities in Lourdes that water from the miraculous spring there would be sent directly to the Church of Notre Dame. Since that time Lourdes water has been continuously available at the church.

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    Notre Dame

    by: Cloven Hoof

    Esmeralda, the bell tolls for thee!
    A tortured soul in a twisted frame
    I'm the one who tolls the bell.
    In a cathedral tower,
    That is Notre Dame.
    ... Notre Dame!
    I wave high above
    To the crowd down below,
    Though heaven help me.
    I killed for love
    Now there can be no Sanctuary.
    No-one would weep
    As I go to my grave,
    Only she who knew me.
    The arrows of one betrayed,
    Life's hollow mockery.
    Rings loud in my ears,
    The bitter call of there jeers.
    Cruel laughter drowns my tears.
    On top of the world,
    I'm falling to the ground.
    Hear the bells cry Sanctuary!
    On top of the world,
    I'm deafened by the sound.
    Hear the bells cry Sanctuary!
    Grotesque, outcast and alone,
    They used ropes to bind me.
    Broke a whip across my back
    To remind me who I am.
    She was beauty,
    I was the beast.
    My Esmeralda.
    Bitter sweet she was
    Caught and released
    By this hunchback of Notre dame.
    In anger and shame,
    Bearing torches they came.
    This fool was not to blame.
    Up here I'm safe
    And on my guard.
    While bloodlust rules
    The boulevard.
    These hallowed walls
    Are all around,
    How long before madmen
    Tear them down to the ground?




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