After 41 years, Notre Dame and Army will once again resume their annual rivalry on the grounds of Yankee Stadium. And turning the baseball-only field into a one-time-only, football-ready playing surface was no easy task.
Shot over the course of a week, the video shows how arduous the process was of clearing off the infield dirt and laying down the
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Even though it’s not the same Yankee Stadium from decades past, it’s bound to be emotional for anyone who grew up in the Northeast with all the bombast and grandeur that came with Army and Notre Dame battling in the Bronx. One former Army player likened it to the biggest event in modern football:
“Those games were the Super Bowl of today,” said Joe Steffy, an Army team captain and lineman in the 1940s. “There was no more famous place to perform any sport than Yankee Stadium, and there was no rivalry bigger than Army and Notre Dame. Many years, it was the national championship game.”
Of course, as odd as it might be to see these college football stalwarts competing in a $1.5 billion upgrade of the old confines, at least they’ll have two functioning end zones, unlike tomorrow’s Northwestern-Illinois matchup at Wrigley Field, which will only feature one, due to Wrigley’s constraining nature.
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