Corcoran Stadium
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Corcoran Stadium was a stadium
in Cincinnati, Ohio
. It hosted the Xavier University
Musketeers football
team until the school dropped football due to financial reasons in 1973. The stadium held 15,000 people when it opened in 1929. The stadium was finally razed in 1988 after attempts to revive the program in Division III failed.
Corcoran Stadium also played host to one NFL game on October 7, 1934 when the Cincinnati Reds (NFL)
took on the Chicago Cardinals. The Reds lost the match by a score of 13-0 in front of 2,500 Reds fans.
Corcoran Stadium can be seen in the 1946 classic movie The Best Years of Our Lives
. In the early scenes of the movie, the returning servicemen return to their hometown (fictional "Boone City") and fly over, among other things, "Jackson High Football Stadium." If you freeze frame the movie and compare it to the picture shown here, everything matches perfectly (side roads, tennis courts, stadium configuration/appearance, etc.). The movie sequence travels from north to south, which is the opposite orientation of this picture. Boone City was reportedly modeled after Cincinnati.
Stadium
A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...
in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...
. It hosted the Xavier University
Xavier University (Cincinnati)
Xavier University is a co-educational Jesuit university in the United States located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The University is the sixth-oldest Catholic university in the nation and has an undergraduate enrollment of about 4,000 students and graduate enrollment of 2,600 students. Xavier is primarily...
Musketeers football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
team until the school dropped football due to financial reasons in 1973. The stadium held 15,000 people when it opened in 1929. The stadium was finally razed in 1988 after attempts to revive the program in Division III failed.
Corcoran Stadium also played host to one NFL game on October 7, 1934 when the Cincinnati Reds (NFL)
Cincinnati Reds (NFL)
The Cincinnati Reds were a National Football League team that played the 1933 season and the first eight games of the 1934 season. The football Reds played most of their home games at Crosley Field...
took on the Chicago Cardinals. The Reds lost the match by a score of 13-0 in front of 2,500 Reds fans.
Corcoran Stadium can be seen in the 1946 classic movie The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Harold Russell, a United States paratrooper who lost both hands in a military training accident. The film is about three United States...
. In the early scenes of the movie, the returning servicemen return to their hometown (fictional "Boone City") and fly over, among other things, "Jackson High Football Stadium." If you freeze frame the movie and compare it to the picture shown here, everything matches perfectly (side roads, tennis courts, stadium configuration/appearance, etc.). The movie sequence travels from north to south, which is the opposite orientation of this picture. Boone City was reportedly modeled after Cincinnati.