A Walk in Our 'Shoe : the history of Ohio Stadium

(Image: Preparing plaster models, 1920) Open to the south, sheltered from the north wind, a partial bowl needing its own vast support, the proposed structure was to hold 63,000 fans. It would be twice the height of the library, would require 40,000 cubic yards of concrete and 4,000 tons of steel. At its creation, Ohio Stadium was the first horseshoe-shaped double-deck stadium in the United States, and the largest stadium west of the Appalachian Mountains. Articles about the Stadium’s design appeared in Engineering and Construction and The Architectural Record; for his work, Smith won the American Institute of Architects gold medal in public architecture.