Clyde Williams Stadium?

[leroycyclone]

[QUOTE=pulse;1163807]Here's a nice shot of the opposite side showing State & Beyer on the top, and Lincoln Way on the bottom.

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I was there. We sat in the end zone. The NE fans sat across the aisle in the end zone too, in back of the goal posts.

[cychhosis]

Best memory was of the 23-23 tie with Nebraska. The place went crazy! Then the extra point kick was missed, and everyone was in shock.

This was my first ISU football game, I was a high school senior and some buddies told me I had to come to a game. It was awesome, they were passing girls up to the top, people were throwing oranges and there was much alcohol. Needless to say, I was hooked!

[Jambalaya]

My main memory from the last season is another typical cyclone heartbreaker.. lol. This is purely from memory, but as i recall, we were leading Oklahoma late in the game, which was played primarily in a driving downpour. There were only a few hundred faithful left, who were only there cause we were leading OU. With a few minutes to go, deep in their own territory, OU threw a little screen pass to Joe Washington, who some of you might remember, had a decent pro career. Washington proceeded to weave back and forth across the field, through the mud, eventually taking it to the house after covering what seemed like about the entire field. We had an all Big 8 safety named Barry Hill who, I swear to God, had at least three different shots at him at various points on the field, missing him every time. Never forget that one.

Your Freshman recollection must of included too many drugs. I was at the game as a middle-schooler. ISU was tied I believe @ half 7-7 or 10-10, but OU owned the 2nd half

Sitting in one end zone, I remember Joe Washington getting loose a couple times (I believe he came in 2nd or 3rd in the Heisman voting) and a long bomb from Steve Davis to Tinker Owens---right toward me. A thing of beauty.

I remember OU scoring at least 3 more times in the 2nd half and putting ISU away early--not later

The final was 28-10. I also don't recall mud or rain

nice story though


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[MilehighClone]

I spent 70-75 in this area as a 6-10 year old kid. (stucco house with the fan on the second floor, still standing today). The locker rooms were on the east side off Clyde, next to Helser. Spring ball was were the current design building is today( between AE and the tennis courts on the south side) . They used to walk acroos the street to the east side of Beyer and then to the pracitce area. They used to have a hockey rink next to Beyer on the north side. The practice facility was fenced and Coach Bruce always had it black tarped, so you couldn't see in.... I always went over there and got in... Great times, great memories... Clone to the Bone!

[CyBroncos]

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Here's a nice shot of the opposite side showing State & Beyer on the top, and Lincoln Way on the bottom.

Iowa State vs. Nebraska Football, 1968 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I was there. We sat in the end zone. The NE fans sat across the aisle in the end zone too, in back of the goal posts.

That's a really cool pic. Sometimes i wish Trice was where Towers is with Welch being the main connector from campus to the stadium. The gameday atmosphere would be awesome

[cyingreen]

22,000

That's my recollection.

I don't know what the permanent seating capacity was, but do know (by checking the archives) that the record CW crowd was 36,690 for the '72 Nebraska game. I was at that game, my first ISU game, and recall an ISU student seated a little ways from me almost beaning a Husker fan with an empty glass bottle, Dave McCurry rolling off the field with a broken leg, the last drive and touchdown pass, and of course, Goedjen's missed extra point. Geez, even then we must have had a kickers curse.

[ketelmeister]

at half time we'd use the restrooms in Helser then go to Hy-vee one block south and get another 12 pack. Good times

Did you start out sober?

[sj4]

Good stuff here. My biggest memory of Clyde Williams also had to do with the Nebraska tie game. I was a kid and was down on the field under the south goal post....I guess you could wander anywhere in those days...and saw Ike Harris(?) I think it was catch the touchdown pass that tied the game a 23-23. He caught it in the southeast corner area of the end zone. The place went nuts. I remember how loud it was being down on the floor. Then Tom Goedjen Lined up and missed the extra point. I think it was wide left. Man.

My brother was a kicker on the freshman team that year so he knew Goedjen. After the game we went to Kings Food Host on the corner of Linclon Way and Grand Ave. If anyone remembers that's the place where you ordered your food using a phone system hooked up to the kitchen. Anyways while we were it just so happened that Goedjen and his family walked in and sat down. After we were done my brother took us over to meet him. I remember feeling so bad for him. You could tell he was devastated.

[JohnnyFive]

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That's a really cool pic. Sometimes i wish Trice was where Towers is with Welch being the main connector from campus to the stadium. The gameday atmosphere would be awesome

That's not a bad idea for a location, but if it was built there we wouldn't be able to enjoy the mass tailgating that we have now. I don't think there's any way we could fit the tailgating into that area.

[CycoCyclone]

I miss people throwing oranges on the field....

[Psyclone]

That's the first time ive seen any of these pictures. It's amazing how the stands are almost right on top of Helser and Friley.

I lived on the south wing of Helser. I'm not even sure if that part of Helser is still standing. You could walk out the west door and you would be right under the stadium. The student section was right in that area, so it was ultra convenient. Students would line up at the gates, but my friend and I would wait until closer to kickoff and then head into the stands. Without fail someone would see us as we walked up, and offer us a place near them. I don't even remember anyone being ****** about it.

That west door of Helser was seldom used other than game day as the route to campus and most other things was the other direction. Even heading to Dogtown, I think we left via the more standard exit which put you in the between Friley and Helser. To get to Dogtown you would walk through the Friley arches on the south end. That end was the women's dorm. All the rest of Friley and all of Helser were men. It was a terrible ratio, which I fixed by moving to the RCA my sophomore year, where the ratio was 2:1 women to men.

[Psyclone]

Only a 12 pack?

It was probably a 6-pack in those days (or multiple 6-packs). I'm not sure when 12-packs were introduced. The 6-pack was standard because it was light enough that housewives to deal with when getting groceries. I guess when more men started making trips to the grocery store, 24-packs and 30-packs were invented.

[CloneFan319]

Sweet pictures! Never realized Clyde Williams Stadium was were Martin, Eaton, and Helser are today, crazy!

[jdoggivjc]

I lived on the south wing of Helser. I'm not even sure if that part of Helser is still standing. You could walk out the west door and you would be right under the stadium. The student section was right in that area, so it was ultra convenient. Students would line up at the gates, but my friend and I would wait until closer to kickoff and then head into the stands. Without fail someone would see us as we walked up, and offer us a place near them. I don't even remember anyone being ****** about it.

That west door of Helser was seldom used other than game day as the route to campus and most other things was the other direction. Even heading to Dogtown, I think we left via the more standard exit which put you in the between Friley and Helser. To get to Dogtown you would walk through the Friley arches on the south end. That end was the women's dorm. All the rest of Friley and all of Helser were men. It was a terrible ratio, which I fixed by moving to the RCA my sophomore year, where the ratio was 2:1 women to men.

South end of Helser, as far as I know, is still standing. The north end of Helser is what got torn down. I was one of the last residents of Woodrow House (Long live the Beaver).

[Psyclone]

I was there when they added rows to to top of the east side and before the south endzone was closed. Original capacity was around 18000 and the addition brought it up to around 22000. Walked across the street from old Westgate Hall for the games. Parking was on the old ROTC drill fields and wasn't a problem. A popular chant was "All the way to Lincoln Way." We snuck in with vodka injected oranges in those days. Alcohol was strictly prohibited on campus and tailgating was yet to be invented. Fifty yard line seats behind the ISU bench were easy to get if you arrived an hour before kickoff, but there were usually 4-5000 noisy students there. Not bad for a student body of around 9000.

I wish we would bring back "All the way to Lincoln Way", for tradition's sake. I also remember the "Ohhhhhh shhhhh######ttttt!" chant whenever we turned the ball over. And one can't forget Dave Cox. Dave was a little inebriated as we were routing Idaho or one of those easy preseason teams. The game was rather boring and he got on the sideline and took the cheerleaders microphone (yes, they had a PA system in those days) and started to fire up the fans. He was just going nuts on the mic down there and the students were getting into it. He kept throwing his floppy hat on the ground and really got the crowd going. Eventually he got escorted out by security, but he did such a great job, the cheer squad had him back as a regular the rest of the season. It is one of the great memories of my time at ISU in the early 70's. Heck I've remembered his name all these years. I found his email address a couple of years ago and sent him an email, but he never responded. Maybe it's a part of his life he'd rather forget.