Floodplain

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(Image: The future site of Ohio Stadium, no date) Land along the Olentangy, broken by occasional groves, had been dedicated to the new Stadium and athletic fields. Trees were felled and their stumps blown out with explosives. A ten-foot-wide drainage ditch then ran through what would be the 50-yard line; this was diverted and filled before work on the Stadium’s foundations and footers could begin. Ground for what would become the gridiron was turned over with a horse-drawn plow.