{"id":76353,"date":"2022-11-17T04:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=76353"},"modified":"2022-11-18T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T14:39:49","slug":"throwback-thursday-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_17_2022\/throwback-thursday-19","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1936, the Works Progress Administration approved a $272,000 loan to UToledo to build a football stadium. With the University adding $51,000 to help fund the construction, a crew went to work, using hand tools to shape the ravine into a bowl shape, which prolonged the project but kept the workforce employed during the Great Depression. Originally called University Stadium, the facility had a seating capacity of 8,000 when it opened in 1937. Learn more about UToledo\u2019s 150th anniversary at <a href=\"http:\/\/utoledo.edu\/150celebration\">utoledo.edu\/150celebration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/TBT-Glass-Bowl-Construction-MAIN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-76354\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/TBT-Glass-Bowl-Construction-MAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/TBT-Glass-Bowl-Construction-MAIN.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/TBT-Glass-Bowl-Construction-MAIN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_17_2022\/throwback-thursday-19\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/TBT-Glass-Bowl-Construction-MAIN-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>In 1936, the Works Progress Administration approved a $272,000 loan to UToledo to build a football stadium. With the University adding $51,000 to help fund the construction, a crew went to work, using hand tools to shape the ravine into a bowl shape, which prolonged the project but kept the workforce employed during the Great Depression. Originally called University Stadium, the facility had a seating capacity of 8,000 when it opened in 1937.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":76354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,50,1,298,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76722,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76353\/revisions\/76722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}