Goodbye Alumni Fields...

[billhoward]

You'd have to figure that if more sites are relocated to there, they'd probably add parking, too.

You'd think. One suspects Cornell downplayed the need for parking. Two miles is too long of a walk from the old Hoy Field and there's no bus service, I believe.

Parking has been a hot button for Cornell. Recall the "Rosebud Woods" controversy circa 2005 about relocating ~175 parking spaces near to campus as part of West Campus redevelopment. As part of the settlement that got the land cleared, students of the era got free bus passes. Which went away after students of the era graduated.

There was also significant protest against Cornell's plan to create faculty parking under the Arts Quad in the early 1970s. Tempers cooled after it turned out to the Daily Sun's spoof issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbud_Woods_controversy

[upprdeck]

All students get free bus passes all over the city now. you can bus up to EHP.

Its not that far. compare it to many colleges.

Look at PSU football. from the center of many of those dorms its a mile to the stadium.  from the center of Cornell campus its just over a 1.5 miles to baseball.

Look at Syracuse soccer/softball fields.  Thats about 1.5 from center of campus as well.

Now kids live on north campus its a haul for sure.

[Swampy]

All students get free bus passes all over the city now. you can bus up to EHP.

Its not that far. compare it to many colleges.

Look at PSU football. from the center of many of those dorms its a mile to the stadium.  from the center of Cornell campus its just over a 1.5 miles to baseball.

Look at Syracuse soccer/softball fields.  Thats about 1.5 from center of campus as well.

Now kids live on north campus its a haul for sure.

UCLA plays football in the Rose Bowl.According to Google Maps, the fastest route is 26.5 miles and at least 39 min. via freeways. But then again, maybe that's why I only went to one UCLA football game when I was a graduate student there. (This and the facts that student seats were expensive and in the nosebleed sections.)

[CAS]

Playing at Booth Field seems to agree with the team.  Cornell has a 7-2 home record this year.  Cornell baseball's last Ivy title was back in 2012

[David Harding]

Hello new field hockey stadium?!

http://www.cornellbigred.com/News/fhockey/2008/7/2/FieldHockeyField08.asp?path=fhockey

I have a strange feeling this will just be leftover parts from Schoellkopf.

The old link that started this topic is broken, but there's news on the field hockey front https://ithacavoice.org/2024/11/cornell-pitches-new-field-hockey-facility-in-town-of-ithaca/

[billhoward]

As field hockey moves from Alumni Fields to off campus, I hope Cornell invests an extra $10,000? $100,000? to get the field hockey stands 10 feet off the ground (first row) so spectators have a better view. A lot of schools including Cornell stint on initial expenditures for their sports facilities. My personal sense is Cornell's Berman/Kane soccer / track complex would be a better facility with stadium seating a bit higher.

I understand that some citizens (townies, also students & faculty with no great love of sports) who want fields to be grass and environmental but there just isn't space, and athletics is forced farther off campus. Artificial turf fields used to be for pro stadiums and Jock U schools because of the high initial cost. It was fabulous to watch lacrosse and soccer played across the street from the ILR complex. This when a greater number of games were played midweek afternoons.

The growth of artificial fields began in the late 1960s. Most schools who bought in early were Big College sports. Although, the first artificial turf field was in the mid-1960s in Providence at Brown, but this was the Morris Brown prep school. And the first NFL stadium to get artificial turf was the Eagles using AstroTurf (original name: ChemGrass) and it was necessary because the Eagles were playing at Penn's Franklin Field and a dozen home games was too much for grass. Now artificial turf is the lower cost (over an 8- to 10-year life) and allows for far more use by youth league sports.

[billhoward]

As field hockey moves from Alumni Fields to off campus, I hope Cornell invests an extra $10,000? $100,000? to get the field hockey stands 10 feet off the ground (first row) so spectators have a better view. A lot of schools including Cornell stint on initial expenditures for their sports facilities. My personal sense is Cornell's Berman/Kane soccer / track complex would be a better facility with stadium seating a bit higher.

I understand that some citizens (townies, also students & faculty with no great love of sports) who want fields to be grass and environmental but there just isn't space, and athletics is forced farther off campus. Artificial turf fields used to be for pro stadiums and Jock U schools because of the high initial cost. It was fabulous to watch lacrosse and soccer played across the street from the ILR complex. This when a greater number of games were played midweek afternoons.

The growth of artificial fields began in the late 1960s. Most schools who bought in early were Big College sports. Although, the first artificial turf field was in the mid-1960s in Providence at Brown, but this was the Morris Brown prep school. And the first NFL stadium to get artificial turf was the Eagles using AstroTurf (original name: ChemGrass) and it was necessary because the Eagles were playing at Penn's Franklin Field and a dozen home games was too much for grass. Now artificial turf is the lower cost (over an 8- to 10-year life) and allows for far more use by youth league sports.