Clyde Williams Stadium?

[wyocy]

Boy, this thread is bringing back the memories. I was a freshman that last year we played at the old stadium in 74. I lived in Helser, just across the street. The first college game I ever went to was the Nebraska game at the Clyde someone mentioned earlier. I was high school junior, I think. Maybe soph, I don't remember for sure..lol. We drove up, (I grew up in Grinnell), and Nebraska, it seemed like, hadn't lost for a couple years. We scored late and needed only the extra point to win from the guy I believe was the first team Big 8 kicker. I was busy celebrating and turned just in time to see it sail wide right. Never took a extra point for granted again as long as I lived.

My main memory from the last season is another typical cyclone heartbreaker.. lol. This is purely from memory, but as i recall, we were leading Oklahoma late in the game, which was played primarily in a driving downpour. There were only a few hundred faithful left, who were only there cause we were leading OU. With a few minutes to go, deep in their own territory, OU threw a little screen pass to Joe Washington, who some of you might remember, had a decent pro career. Washington proceeded to weave back and forth across the field, through the mud, eventually taking it to the house after covering what seemed like about the entire field. We had an all Big 8 safety named Barry Hill who, I swear to God, had at least three different shots at him at various points on the field, missing him every time. Never forget that one.

 

[mkadl]

my grandpa noticed ropes hanging over the south stands down on to the street. When they got up past Hayward, he could see that there were students at street level tying kegs up to the ropes and hoisting them into Clyde over the back. I wish I could have been around for those days!

Kegs at Clyde my brother was a student then, I was about 8-9 years old, I remember the kegs at Clyde, what an impression that made on me.

 

[ornryactor]

I wish theyd finish off what they started there and build the 3rd new building and tear down helser. Its quite a dump compared to all the buildings around it. (lived there one year... that was enough). Also, would make a lot of room for some more parking and green space.

Never gonna happen. That was part of the master plan for the previous director of the DoR, but he's long gone and so is his ridiculous plan. Helser's capacity is too high, a suite building's is too low. Suites are more expensive than most people want to pay, so demand is much lower as well. Eaton is traditionally in the last 20% of the res halls to fill up for a year, and the only reason Martin isn't the same way is because they have a couple of large learning communities housed there. Besides, they completely gutted Helser in summer 2008 and redid the whole thing. It's a nice building now, and good to go for another 50-65 years.

When we need more res hall space and have the money, I can pretty much guarantee you where it will come from, in this order: turning Wallace and Wilson back into double housing (instead of super singles), adding west wings to Buchanan 5-9, and eventually building entirely new res halls down in the Towers area. That area is destined to be a new campus anyway, as this last round of construction has literally filled up every available construction slot on campus. We can no longer build any new buildings without tearing down something else. As ISU grows in the future, we'll eventually turn Towers into a new south campus.

 

[majorcyfan]

at half time we'd use the restrooms in Helser then go to Hy-vee one block south and get another 12 pack. Good times

You must be as drunk now as back then.....HyVee #1 never sold beer, ever.....They couldn't, next to a church and accross from a
jr. high school.....city laws prohibited selling any alcoholic beverages that close to a school and/or a church. I worked at that time for the #2 store on South Duff, it was this store that sold beer, not # 1.

 

[swarthmoreCY]

You must be as drunk now as back then.....HyVee #1 never sold beer, ever.....They couldn't, next to a church and accross from a
jr. high school.....city laws prohibited selling any alcoholic beverages that close to a school and/or a church. I worked at that time for the #2 store on South Duff, it was this store that sold beer, not # 1.

Where was the junior high school?

 

[majorcyfan]

Where was the junior high school?

West accross from the Campus Baptist Church, which shared a parking lot with the HyVee store. Welch Jr high school was it's name It took up most of the west side of west side of sheldon Ave, along with the playground

Welch School

 

[scottie33]

I'm pretty sure they aren't going to make wallace and wilson into doubles anytime soon. As I was told when we were demoing knapp and storm halls, they were built to last 30 years I think. When we blew them up they have been there for 35 years I believe. Now, I wasn't here for the building of wallace and wilson...but I thought I heard something that they were built only a few years after knapp and storm and would have to be torn down soon. obviously that hasn't happened yet.

another thing, there won't be any large structure built where the previous two dorms were. there is still the buildings foundations under that new green area about 25 feet down. Unless ISU wants to spend a couple million just to over excavate the former dorms, then you won't be seeing any large dorms go up where they were previously.
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[psycln11]

Posted this in the wrong stadium thread...

My dad was able to get his hands on several of the old wood boards used for the bleachers at Clyde Williams. They were weathered and had the seat numbers stamped into them.

We found them in the garage several years later and had them planed, revealing some very nice redwood or cedar. I can't remember which one.

My sister ended up using the boards to make a octagonal picnic table and patio settee for a couple of 4-H projects. Needless to say, they were both grand champions at the State Fair.

 

[tim_redd]

This thread is fascinating. I had always thought it was closer to the armory because I asked some old guy once where Clyde Williams Stadium was and he told me by the old gymnasium. I assumed he meant the armory but I see now he actually meant state gym.

 

[isuno1fan]

Wiki says the original cost to build the stadium was $32,000.

 

[pulse]

This thread is fascinating. I had always thought it was closer to the armory because I asked some old guy once where Clyde Williams Stadium was and he told me by the old gymnasium. I assumed he meant the armory but I see now he actually meant state gym.

If you look the left of the stadium, that is Friley/Helser, and immediately to the bottom of the stadium in the picture is State Gym.

 

[swarthmoreCY]

One more photo, from the Ames Historical Society. Pretty old, as the stadium is small, and most of the campus and Ames had yet to be developed.

 

[jdoggivjc]

One more photo, from the Ames Historical Society. Pretty old, as the stadium is small, and most of the campus and Ames had yet to be developed.

Wow - that picture is ANCIENT if Friley and Hughes (Friley Arches) - much less Helser - hadn't even been built yet

 

[aeroclone08]

Wow - that picture is ANCIENT if Friley and Hughes (Friley Arches) - much less Helser - hadn't even been built yet

Or even Lake Laverne and the Union

 

[jumbopackage]

If you use the "time" feature on google earth, you can see the track still there circa 1994.

 

[jdoggivjc]

Or even Lake Laverne and the Union

Lake LaVerne might actually be there (imagine where Friley would be and go across the street - that MAY look like a lake, but it's hard to tell in a B&W photo), but you're right - definitely no Union.

 

[JP4CY]

Were there practice fields where the Design building is at now? If you look close it looks like a striped field.

 

[theshadow]

Were there practice fields where the Design building is at now? If you look close it looks like a striped field.

That may have been the ROTC drill field.

 

[wartknight]

Love to read the old stories. As much as I love the Clones, JTS has always seemed to be missing something that I hope a bowled in south endzone can solve.

 

[theshadow]

1935 aerial photo from the Historical Society exhibit. Baseball diamond where Helser now stands.