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

(Image: Flood of Ohio Stadium, 1937) Floods across Ohio in 1937, which devastated Cincinnati, brought what the Alumni Monthly called a "rampaging Olentangy" to the polo fields south of the Stadium. The Stadium itself was largely spared. While the city of Columbus suffered through the statewide flood of January 1959 - 3,200 citizens sought shelter with the Red Cross - the frozen fields south of the stadium flooded, again sparing the building itself. A flood in June 1973 that caused extensive damage to records in the OSU Research Foundation and in Buckeye Village, similarly covered the polo fields in three feet of water, but left the Stadium dry. The remnants of Hurricane Frederic dropped six inches of rain on Columbus on September 13, 1979; enterprising youths took the opportunity to kayak on the flooded polo fields.