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Article: A Herd of new stadium seats is coming: ; Marshall plans expansion after tonight's MAC game
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- December 3, 1999
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
ONCE the fans file out of their seats after tonight's Mid-
American Conference football championship at Marshall University,
additional seats will almost immediately start filling the stadium.
Within the next week, plans call for contractors to move the
scoreboard in the south end zone to make way for about 10,000
additional seats. That will bring the stadium's total to about
40,000 seats.
With the addition, Marshall's stadium will be the largest in the
Mid-American Conference. (Akron's Rubber Bowl will be second with
35,202 seats.) Marshall officials believe fans will buy the extra
tickets.
"When games get close to being sold out people think there's no
use, that they can't ...