CampBlount
Please ban me. VN is toxic.
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I ask because I wonder what gives Vanderbilt fans (other than their innate sense of entitlement and superiority) the right to claim that Dudley Field was "the first football stadium ever built in the South" or even "the first stadium in the south to be used exclusively for college football" -- given that Shields-Watkins Field (including a "stadium" seating 3,200) opened for football in 1921, a full year before Dudley Field opened?
I get that, according to the two Wiki articles, Dudley allegedly seated 20,000 when it opened and ours only seated 3,200 that first year -- but they don't claim that theirs was the "largest" in the South at the time; they claim it was the first.
I'm just asking, and the Vandy bandwagoneers on here are sure to enlighten me -- but it seems to me they have a weak claim on the "first football stadium in the South."
I get that, according to the two Wiki articles, Dudley allegedly seated 20,000 when it opened and ours only seated 3,200 that first year -- but they don't claim that theirs was the "largest" in the South at the time; they claim it was the first.
I'm just asking, and the Vandy bandwagoneers on here are sure to enlighten me -- but it seems to me they have a weak claim on the "first football stadium in the South."
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