Nominate a Homecoming Grand Marshal
Help celebrate the return to campus of Gopher football by nominating a 2009 Homecoming parade grand marshal. The Homecoming Executive Committee—with your help—will select up to five grand marshals for the historic parade, set for Friday evening, October 9. |
Topping Beams Placed
In a milestone step in the construction of TCF Bank Stadium, the "topping-off" steel beams were placed atop of TCF Bank Stadium today. The beams were signed by workers and supporters, including members of the Alumni Associaiton Board of Directors. |
Stadium Shape Showing As First Brick Laid
As TCF Bank Stadium emerges from the melting snow and mud of this long winter and spring, the distinct horseshoe shape of the old Memorial Stadium is beginning to appear. |
Shakopee Mdewakanton Donate $10 million to TCF Bank Stadium
Leaders of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) joined University of Minnesota officials today to announced a $12.5 million gift from the SMSC to the university. Ten million dollars will go to support the construction of TCF Bank Stadium and $2.5 million will go to a matching endowment fund, creating a $5 million endowment to provide scholarships, with a preference given to American Indian students. The $10 million stadium gift is the largest single private gift ever to Golden Gopher Athletics. |
Stadium Construction Underway; Logo Unveiled
University of Minnesota officials kicked off construction of the new TCF Bank Stadium today by joining representatives from TCF Bank and construction company M.A. Mortenson Company to unveil the new stadium logo.
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TCF Stadium Designs unveiled
 | | The view of the new stadium from high above Mariucci Arena. Image courtesy of HOK Sport. |
New architectural drawings--and a new price tag--for TCF Bank Stadium were unveiled January 3 at the McNamara Alumni Center.
An asymetrical horseshoe shape will be open to the west, facing campus and the downtown skyline. The two-deck stadium will seat 50,000 and have infrastructure to allow for up to 30,000 additional seats.
The extra infrastructure, as well as wider seats, more leg room, higher material and construction costs and changes to building code requirements, raised the pricetag by nearly $40 million to $288.5 million. The extra cost will be borne by the University, largely through extra revenue generated by the stadium.
Read a U feature story here, a press release here, and the athletics department description here. |
Groundbreaking Date Announced
Save September 30 to see the long-awaited TCF Bank Stadium get underway.
What: Ceremonial Groundbreaking for TCF Stadium
When: 2 p.m., Saturday, September 30, 2006
Where: Surface parking lots one block northeast of the McNamara Alumni Center (just east of Mariucci Arena) |
HOK Sport to Design Gopher Stadium
HOK Sport of Kansas City, Mo., will design the new TCF Bank Stadium. The announcement was made during the Board of Regents monthly meeting at the McNamara Alumni Center on the university's Twin Cities campus Thursday, June 8. |
Stadium Bill Signed at McNamara
Declaring that a “big-time university” with a “big-time coach” deserves a “big-time stadium,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed into law state funding for 55 percent of the proposed on-campus TCF Bank Stadium. |
A Call to Action
Contact Senators today to help get a Gopher Stadium bill passed. |
Regents OK New Stadium Funding Plan
Regents have approved the proposal to swap almost 3,000 acres of Univeristy land southeast of St. Paul for state support for one-half the cost of a proposed on-campus Gopher football stadium. |
Stadium Plan Advances
A new plan to fund a proposed on-campus football stadium has earned the support of the U's Board of Regents, the Minnesota Student Association, and the Faculty Consulatative Committee, as well as the two key legislative committees. |
Bringing Gopher Football Home
The University of Minnesota's stadium information Web site includes reports on the latest developments at the Legislature and information on how to show your support for an on-campus stadium. |
Stadium Video
A new video about building a campus stadium with highlights from the days of Memorial Stadium. |
Campus Digest
Preliminary planning details about the stadium published in the Minnesota Magazine a year ago. |
Doing Right by Gopher Football
In her column in the January-February 2003 issue of Minnesota, UMAA Executive Director Margaret S. Carlson says, "Bringing Gopher football back to campus should be done. And when it happens—and I know it will—we will thank the tens of thousands of alumni who cheered on the football Gophers at Memorial Stadium over the decades and who remember what that experience was like." |
 | | | |  | | NEW Stadium Construction Cam | NEW! See construction from a better angle. Click here to see the Web cam live video.
(NOTE: May require Active X installation. Installation may be blocked by certain networks and firewalls. If you cannot see the video, contact your network administrator.) |
| | Memorial Memories | | During a campus drive in 1921 that lasted only one month, 1,500 students and faculty raised $665,000 to build Memorial Stadium. Every time another $25,000 was pledged, a cannon was fired across campus to cheers of "Boom, boom, stadioom!"
Read the Minnesota magazine article on the history and demolition of memorial stadium, thanks to the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The site also includes interesting links and images. |
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