Point Stadium is the name of two stadiums located on the same site in Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Johnstown is a city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, west-southwest of Altoona, Pennsylvania and east of Pittsburgh. The population was 20,978 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Cambria County...

. The "Point" refers to its location is at the confluence of the Little Conemaugh

Little Conemaugh River

The Little Conemaugh River is a tributary of the Conemaugh River, approximately 30 mi long, in western Pennsylvania in the United States....

, Stonycreek, and Conemaugh

Conemaugh River

The Conemaugh River is a long tributary of the Kiskiminetas River in Westmoreland, Indiana, and Cambria counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.- Course :...

 rivers.

The Ultimate Baseball League

Ultimate Baseball League

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 has awarded a team to the venue, which will begin play in 2012.

Original stadium

The original stadium opened in 1926 with a capacity

Seating capacity

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 of 17,000. The stadium featured an upper-deck on top of the grandstand. The Greater Johnstown High School

Greater Johnstown High School

Greater Johnstown High School is a high school located in between the neighborhoods of Moxham, 8th Ward and Hornerstown in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the senior high school for the Greater Johnstown School District. The current Superintendent is Barbara Parkins, herself a...

 football team regularly sold out the Point for their rivalry games between Windber High School

Windber, Pennsylvania

Windber is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, eight miles south of Johnstown. It was at one time a place of industrial activities which included coal mining, lumbering, and the manufacture of fire brick. In 1897, the community was founded by coal barons Charles and Edward Julius Berwind...

 and Altoona Area High School

Altoona Area High School

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. The upper grandstand was later removed and capacity was reduced to 10,000. It was the home of numerous minor-league baseball

Minor league baseball

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 teams and the All-American Amateur Baseball Association

All-American Amateur Baseball Association

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 (AAABA) World Series baseball tournament. It was also used for filming in All The Right Moves

All the Right Moves

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.

The original Point Stadium had unusual field dimensions. Fitted into a rectangular city block, it was just 251 feet down the right-field line and 262 feet down the left-field line, but bulged out to over 400 feet in center field, depending on the location of a snow fence

Snow fence

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 which cut off the farthest reaches of the stadium in right center field. Huge nets were put in left field to keep balls in play, preventing easy home runs, and also to prevent balls from reaching the adjacent street.

The original Point Stadium's dimensions (1926–2002):

• Left Field Foul Line: 262 feet
• Center Field: 385 feet
• Right Field Foul Line: 251 feet

Current stadium

The original Point Stadium was torn down in 2005 to make room for a new $8 million Point Stadium. The new, 7,500-seat stadium opened on August 8, 2006, for a game between Johnstown and Chicago in the annual AAABA National Tournament. Bishop McCort High School

Bishop McCort High School

Bishop McCort High School is a private, Catholic high school located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in Cambria County. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown.- History :...

 currently plays its home football

American football

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 games here. Sportexe artificial turf

Artificial turf

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 was installed before the 2007 AAABA National Tournament.

Point Stadium is also used by the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, also known as UPJ or Pitt-Johnstown, is a four-year, degree-granting regional campus of the University of Pittsburgh. The university is located in Richland Township, a suburban area of Johnstown, Pennsylvania and was founded in 1927 as one of the first...

 for most of their home games. UPJ has also hosted the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference baseball

College baseball

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 championships at Point Stadium in the 2008, 2009, and 2010 seasons. The tournament will also be held at the stadium in 2012. The 2010 and 2011 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference

Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference

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 Baseball Tournaments were held at the stadium.

The current Point Stadium's dimensions:

• Left Field Foul Line: 290 feet
• Left Center Field: 336 feet
• Center Field: 409 feet
• Right Center Field: 395
• Right Field Foul Line: 290 feet

Pittsburgh Steelers Practices

The Pittsburgh Steelers

Pittsburgh Steelers

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 have used the stadium for in-season game practices and workouts, the last time being during the 1987 strike season.

External links

• Photographs of Point Stadium - Rochester Area Ballparks The movie "All The Right Moves" had scenes filmed here.
• Point Stadium at wviac.org