Cleveland Stadium Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===College football=== The only [[Great Lakes Bowl]] was held there in 1947. The stadium hosted the annual [[NavyโNotre Dame football rivalry|college football game]] between [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]] and [[Navy Midshipmen football|Navy]] 11 times: in 1932, 1934, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1976 and 1978. The games were well attended, with an average attendance of 69,730 and a high of 84,090 fans for the 1947 game, which was won by Notre Dame 27โ0. Local college teams, including [[Case Western Reserve Spartans football|Western Reserve Red Cats]], [[Case Western Reserve Spartans football|Case Tech Rough Riders]], [[John Carroll Blue Streaks football|John Carroll Blue Streaks]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv23/CFHSNv23n3d.pdf|title = CONTENTdm}}</ref> and [[Baldwin Wallace Yellow Jackets football|Baldwin Wallace Yellow Jackets]] often used the stadium for home games and local matchups, especially during the 1930s and 1940s when the city ''Big Four Conference'' was strong.<ref>{{cite book|last=Watterson|first=John S.|title=College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy|url=https://archive.org/details/collegefootballh0000watt|url-access=registration|year=2000|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore|isbn=0-801-86428-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/collegefootballh0000watt/page/256 256]}}</ref> Of the 60 all-time ''Big Four'' matchups, 22 were played at Cleveland Stadium, the most of any venue.<ref name="Krsolovic 2013, p. 143">Krsolovic & Fritz. "League Park, Historic Home of Cleveland Baseball 1891โ1946", McFarland & Co., 2013, pp. 33-34.</ref> The [[Illinois Fighting Illini]] played the [[Penn State Nittany Lions]] there in 1959. The [[Ohio State Buckeyes]] played in the stadium four times, the first three as the home team during [[World War II]]. The first was in a 1942 win over Illinois before 68,656, the second a 1943 loss to Purdue, and the third a 1944 victory over Illinois. The final college football contest played there was on October 19, 1991, when the [[Northwestern Wildcats]] played a [[Home advantage#Neutral venues|neutral site]] "home" game against the Buckeyes. While Northwestern received the home team's share of the gate receipts, Buckeye fans made up the vast majority of the crowd.<ref>{{cite book|last=Toman|first=James A.|title=Cleveland Stadium: Sixty Years of Memories|year=1994|publisher=Cleveland Landmarks Press, Inc.|location=Cleveland, Ohio|isbn=0-936-76009-5|pages=45โ46}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page