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

(Image: Ohio Stadium press box, 1961) Accommodations for growing numbers of reporters have changed over the years. Each new press box would be unrecognizable to the successive generations of reporters and cameramen who have covered games at Ohio Stadium. The original plans called for two wooden boxes atop C deck at either side of the Stadium, centered on the 50-yard line; these were consolidated to a single box on the west side in 1929, still made of wood and like the original two, open to the elements. A new box in glass, aluminum and steel, three enclosed tiers with an open camera platform, was built in 1950. Until the 1960s, stadium press credentials banned women from the press box, with the exception of two wartime writers, two students, and Phyllis Nash of the Columbus Dispatch.