I have reason to believe the first few years of Jack Trice Stadium wasn't called Cyclone Stadium as previously thought. I believe it was called the slightly boring name of "New Stadium".
I was looking through old football programs and stumbled upon this "Football Stadium Quiz" in the 1977 Program
If you look on the right, we're number 19 and if you look on the left there is no mention of "Cyclone Stadium". If you look at the answers on the bottom, you'll see that 19 matches up with U. U is "New Stadium (50,000). If you look up the capacity in 1977 for our stadium it was 48,000 with 2,000 standing room only or as we call it, the hillsides.
I also checked various stadiums and their 1977 capacity and it was all correct. I looked through the rest of the 1977 programs and there is no mention of Cyclone Stadium at all.
In fact if you look at the first program in 1975 of New Stadium it doesn't mention Cyclone Stadium at all either.
So in conclusion, we've been using the wrong name for over 40 years! Long live New Stadium!
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I was looking through old football programs and stumbled upon this "Football Stadium Quiz" in the 1977 Program
If you look on the right, we're number 19 and if you look on the left there is no mention of "Cyclone Stadium". If you look at the answers on the bottom, you'll see that 19 matches up with U. U is "New Stadium (50,000). If you look up the capacity in 1977 for our stadium it was 48,000 with 2,000 standing room only or as we call it, the hillsides.
I also checked various stadiums and their 1977 capacity and it was all correct. I looked through the rest of the 1977 programs and there is no mention of Cyclone Stadium at all.
In fact if you look at the first program in 1975 of New Stadium it doesn't mention Cyclone Stadium at all either.
So in conclusion, we've been using the wrong name for over 40 years! Long live New Stadium!
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.