Camp Randall Stadium
Built: 1917
Original cost:Â $32,100
First game: Oct. 6, 1917 (Wisconsin 34, Beloit 0)
Official Dedication Game: Nov. 3, 1917 (Wisconsin 10, Minnesota 7)
Football team record: 348-194-23 (.638)
First televised game: Oct. 9, 1954 vs. Rice
Largest attendance: 83,184 on Nov. 12, 2005 (vs. Iowa)
Football Capacities Through the Years
1917: 10,000
1921: 14,000
1925: 29,783
1926: 38,293
1932: 32,700
1937: 36,000
1940: 45,000
1951: 51,000
1955: 52,788
1958: 63,435
1966: 77,745
1994: 76,129
2001: 76,634
2005: 80,321
Did You Know?
• The Rolling Stones played two concerts at Camp Randall Stadium (Camp Randall hosted a total of seven major concerts, including Pink Floyd twice, U2 twice and Genesis).
• The Green Bay Packers played 12 exhibition games at Camp Randall Stadium over 14 seasons from 1986 to 1999, going 9-3 in those games.
• In a Big 8 challenge meet run two months before the 1936 Summer Olympics, Jesse Owens (competing for Ohio State) broke world records in the 100-meter dash and long jump within 90 minutes of each other.
• Camp Randall Stadium has hosted the WIAA state football championships every year since 1982 and current Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst quarterbacked Platteville High School to the Division 4 title in 1983.
• Charles Lindbergh, who dropped out of UW-Madison in 1922, returned to campus on Aug. 22, 1927 following his trans-Atlantic flight and addressed a crowd of nearly 40,000 at Camp Randall Stadium.
• Two hockey games have been played in Camp Randall Stadium. The UW women's team beat Bemidji State, 6-1, and the men's team defeated Michigan, 3-2, on Feb. 6, 2010, in the Culver's Camp Randall Hockey Classic.
• Thousands of UW-Madison students have attended graduation ceremonies inside Camp Randall Stadium. The first commencement ceremony held in Camp Randall was held on June 19, 1925. In 2014, after a 24-year absence, spring commencement ceremonies moved back to Camp Randall.
• A total of 19 Heisman Trophy winners have played in Camp Randall Stadium (Alan Ameche and Ron Dayne – Wisconsin; Nile Kinnick – Iowa; Bruce Smith – Minnesota; Angelo Bertelli, Johnny Lujack and Jon Huarte – Notre Dame; Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, Howard Cassady, Archie Griffin, Eddie George and Troy Smith – Ohio State; Terry Baker – Oregon State; Mike Garrett – USC; Steve Owens – Oklahoma; Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson – Michigan; Gino Toretta – Miami)