Yale Field, Scene of Wide Construction Program, is Expecting Brilliant Future

The following article on the new construction program being carried out on Yale Field was written by H.F. Woodcock, Graduate Manager of the Yale Athletic Association. The article is reprinted by special permission to the Crimson from the official football program of the Yale Athletic Association.

Many changes and improvements are occuring through new construction at Yale Field this year. New projects either completed or nearing completion include the Walter Camp Memorial, the Charles E. Coxe Memorial, new Baseball stands, new varsity Soccer and Lacrosse Field, and new Roadway from the Walter Camp Memorial to the Bowl.

The Walter Camp Memorial with its impressive colonnade entrance to the Walter Camp Field is nearing completion and serves as a magnificant improvement to the property along Derby Avenue. The new baseball stands containing 6,000 covered seats and 6,000 bleacher seats will be ready for the first baseball game next spring. These new stands are symmetrical and fire proof and will be a great improvement over the old wooden stands which were built in a very irregular fashion. The new stands will provide 1453 more covered seats than were available in the old stand. The varsity baseball diamond and field which has been considered one of the best baseball playing fields in the country has been preserved and has not been disturbed in any way through the construction of the new stands.

The Charles E. Coxe Memorial is to be completed December 20. This Field Gymnasium will provide ample space for indoor practice of the track, baseball, football, lacrosse, soccer, and tennis teams and probably will be the largest athletic "cage" in existence. The building will contain one huge room with a cinder track, eight laps to the mile, and runs and pits for jumping and pole vaulting beyond the end of the track oval. A netting will be suspended just inside of the track oval which will enable the track team and other teams to practice at the same time without any interference with each other. The building will be 330 feet seven inches long and 159 feet wide and the area within the track oval will be 259 feet six inches by 118 feet. The structure will correspond with the Lapham Field House architecturally the walls being made of solid brick Flemish bond. The entrance to the Coxe Memorial will be but a few steps from the Lapham Field House and the lockers and showers in the latter will therefore be used in connection with the "cage".

The Coxe Memorial which is just northwest of the Lapham Field House occupies the area previously used for varsity soccer and lacrosse. This old soccer and lacrosse field, however, was never in a satisfactory condition and a new varsity soccer and lacrosse field has been constructed immediately north of the Coxe Memorial toward the Bowl. This will provide these two sports with a highly satisfactory field next year.

In addition to the above new work the Phipps Polo Field back of the Armory was completed last spring and it is expected that a schedule of indoor polo games will be held on this Field next May and June.

The new track stand was completed last spring and a new fence was erected this past summer between the old Yale Field and the St. Lawrence Cemetery.