Show U fAVOR n nI I PA COAST CAST GRID E I I I I Great Game of Bears and Stanford Will Open Schools School's luge 1 New Stadium I i UNIVERSITY Cal Cat Nov I S STANFORD 19 By United Press The press The Pacific I coast football championship was as to tobe tobe tobe be decided today today today-in in full view of ot people Stanford's Indians and California's Bears were to meet here in tha bl big game of the coast football season CALIFORNIA FAVORED Dope was all In favor of California A good many bets however were laid at money that Stanford would score and other bets were made at t varying varying- odds that would not win by more inure than ihan 15 points Today just one week less than six months from the inception of the stadium stadium stadium sta idea In the minds of students students students stu stu- dents and alumni the big game classic of or the Far West Vest will be play played d I between the University of California and 1 Stanford Stanfor In the new outdoor bowl It was on May 25 last that a group of ot Stanford people assembled in a San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- ct cisco co hotel and announced to the world at large that this years year's jig lg Ig game would be played in the bowl Stanford engineers set immediately to the preparation of plan plana A A. financial ln committee was organized and trod the I necessary for the construction of the stadium was raised by a quiet campaign GET NO RETURNS Donors cf sums which w wre re us used by th the I stadium committee received nothing concrete concrete con con- crete rete for their gifts gUts Earnings from froni stadium stadium sta stat diun imes s by Stanford will be diverted Into ether university channels until a 1 sum equal to the original cost has b been ell I counted That Is understanding I with th there thure who made the stadium pos pos- I sible The adopted for the stadium was ore One of two possible es s of construe construe- tion A bowl of earth somewhat similar simi simi- lar to a r reservoir as conceived in the completion of Yale bowl was adopted in preference to a reinforced concrete structure based on the plan of or the Roman Roman Ro- Ro iraan man coliseum Following the style adopted except for a larger playing area the stadium resembles resembles bles the one at Athens scene of the 1916 Olympic games gaines Absolute security against trie ravages ravage of ot time Is guaranteed by the engineers headed by Professor Protessor Leon Wing Seats are fixed in the earth embankment These may be removed piecemeal I Here ar are the dimensions of Stanford's new stadium which will be dedicated today today to to- to day in t the tle e big game with California THE NEW STADIUM Depth of pl playing field below surface 23 feet Height of ot top embankment above present present pres pres- ent slope 30 36 feet Length of ot oval ovalS or surface of ot field feet I Width of oval feet Width of running track 15 feet Width of f straightaway 30 ao feet Distance of nearest seat from center of f field sides field sides feet ends feet i- i Distance of highest seats from center of field sides field sides feet ends feet Width of ot esplanade at top 15 feet teet outside outside out out- side 12 feet clear I Slope of ot seats 8 to 13 Inches rise in two feet Slope of ou outside embankment 2 feet I horizontal to 1 foot vertical I |