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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3895259, member: 27"]
Nice post.

A couple of comments.

Seven tubas.  In those days, the SUMB was known as '100 Men and a Girl', where the girl was Orange Girl.  It was a simpler time.

What if Syracuse had remained a major national power in football into the late 1960s and early 1970s?

I believe the capacity of Archbold was raised to a little over 40K in the 1950s.  You can see the extra stands that were built above the concrete bowl on the northern sideline (closest to the Physics and Hendricks buildings).  I think they later added bleachers on the cinder track between the playing field and the concrete stadium to further expand capacity...don't see them here.

Had demand been there, would a complete second deck have eventually been built above the original concrete stadium?  Was there room?  I think so but the big castle turret behind the Western end zone would have been a problem.  My guess is that it would have been removed, and perhaps rebuilt above the second deck.

Or more likely, the second deck would have just stopped once it got close to the turret.

Was Archbold deteriorating so badly that it wouldn't have been possible to do a major expansion?  Did the university let the building fall apart because they didn't want to care for it any longer?

The Yale Bowl is older and still is standing.  I suspect if SU maintained it properly, it could still be there.  There are certainly some other buildings on campus that are older and remain in excellent shape.
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