Holes in the database

[Draft Dodger]

ok, the database of teams is about ready...should have a "beta" version up somewhere in about an hour or so.

here's a breakdown of some of the stuff I'm trying to track down...

- Capacity for Buffalo Baseball Park (1922-1923)
- Capacity for Canisius College Villa (Buffalo) (1920-1921)
- Capacity for Hamilton's Civic Stadium from 1950-1958 (my guess is about 10,000).
- Whether London (England)'s Crystal Palace National Sports Centre is turf or grass Turf. Also Stadium Stamford Bridge Grass and White Hart Lane.
- Capacity for Douglas Park (in Rock Island, Il) from 1920-1925
- The date that artificial turf was installed at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium
- Ditto Ottawa's Frank Clair/Landsdowne, Winnipeg's Canad Inn Stadium (aka Winnipeg Stadium) and Regina's Taylor Field. (note, I know all would be post-1970, as Vancouver's Empire Stadium is billed to have the first turf in Canada installed in 1970.
- Capacity for Frankford, Pa's Frankford Stadium (I believe it is slightly over 15,000) (1920's)
- Surface type (artificial or grass) for Clemson's Memorial Stadium (1995) grass
- any good info on Calgary's Mewata Stadium (I know 1936 capacity was 2,000 and 1959 capacity was 16,700...no idea when changes were made).
- capacity for Potsville, Pa's Minersville park (1925-1928)
- confirmation that the Kansas City Cowboys and Kansas City Blues played at Muehelbach Field (1924-1926)
- capacity for Winnipeg's Osborne Stadium (1936-1952).
- capacity for Regina's Park de Young (1936-1946).
- stadium info, all from 1920's of Canton Bulldogs, Duluth Kelley's/Eskimos, Evansville (Ind) Crimson Giants, Louisville Brecks/Colonels, Milwaukee Badgers, Minneapolis Marines/Red Jackets, Newark Tornadoes, Boston Bulldogs, Racine Legion, Rochester Independents, Toledo Maroons.
- stadium info for Vancouver Grizzlies (1941)

some of this info may be hidden forever - I've spent sometime with Google over the last year or so researching this stuff...but some of you guys (cthomer, this means you) may be able to unearth stuff I couldn't.

EDIT
found information is bolded.

[cthomer5000]

Originally posted by Draft Dodger
some of this info may be hidden forever - I've spent sometime with Google over the last year or so researching this stuff...but some of you guys (cthomer, this means you) may be able to unearth stuff I couldn't.

I'll definitely look into some of this stuff this evening. I love reading anything about the early days of football, so this research is always fun for me.

[digamma]

If Memorial Stadium is Clemson's baseball stadium, it is grass. It is a unique field with a hill in the outfield instead of a warning track (all the way around).

[Bee]

You should post this as a quiz and you'd have the answers in about 5 minutes.

[Draft Dodger]

Originally posted by digamma
If Memorial Stadium is Clemson's baseball stadium, it is grass. It is a unique field with a hill in the outfield instead of a warning track (all the way around).

not sure if it's the same, but I did finally discover that it's grass.
thanks!

[Airhog]

Well I looked at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centers website it says that the surface is astroturf and is used for football 11-a-side

[Airhog]

Stadium Standford Bridge had undersoil heating and looks like real grass. It was built sometime ago, and I can see no mention of them changing the surface to turf.

[vtbub]

Artificial surfaces are not allowed on FIFA approved facilities.

They are allowing experiments in using "Real Turf" for a trial period. But I don't believe any of those are in England.