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| Former names | Duke Stadium (1929-1967) |
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| Location | Frank Bassett Drive, Durham, NC 27706 |
| Coordinates | 35°59′43″N 78°56′30″W / 35.99528°N 78.94167°WCoordinates: 35°59′43″N 78°56′30″W / 35.99528°N 78.94167°W |
| Opened | October 5, 1929 |
| Owner | Duke University |
| Operator | Duke University |
| Surface | Grass |
| Capacity | 33,941 |
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| Duke Blue Devils (Football & Track) (NCAA) (1929-present) Rose Bowl Game (NCAA) (1942) |
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Wallace Wade Stadium is a stadium on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Primarily used for American football, it is the home field of the Duke Blue Devils. It opened in 1929 with a game against Pitt, as the first facility in Duke's new west campus. The horseshoe-shaped stands are elevated six feet above the track. Seating for the stadium is for 33,941 people. Originally named Duke Stadium, it was renamed in 1967 for the legendary Duke football coach, Wallace Wade.
1942 Rose Bowl
The stadium is most notable for being the site of the 1942 Rose Bowl Game. Duke had won the invitation to the game as the eastern representative for the second straight year. However, with the attacks on Pearl Harbor coming just weeks after the end of the 1941 season, travel restrictions were placed on the West Coast, thus meaning not only could the Rose Bowl itself not host the game, but neither could Oregon State, the host team from the PCC. The Rose Bowl committee originally planned to cancel the game, but the University invited the game and Oregon State to Durham to play the game. The offer was accepted, and on a cold, rainy January 1, 1942, 55,000 fans, 22,000 of which sat on bleachers borrowed from nearby NC State and UNC, watched the heavily favored Blue Devils fall to the strong defense of the Beavers. No rose bowl game had ever been played in a stadium outside of Pasadena before then.
Concerts
On October 8th, 2005, the stadium hosted a large crowd for a Rolling Stones concert, as part of the band's A Bigger Bang Tour.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Wallace Wade Stadium |
- Wallace Wade Stadium from the Duke University Archives
- The CollegeGridirons.com page
- The Ballparks.com page
- Satellite Photo of Wallace Wade Stadium
- The 1942 Durham Rose Bowl
| Preceded by Trinity College |
Home of the Duke University football 1929 – present |
Succeeded by Current |
| Preceded by Rose Bowl |
Site of the Rose Bowl 1942 |
Succeeded by Rose Bowl |
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