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Article: Yankee Stadium giving it the old college try
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2009
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NEW YORK - There was a time when great college football games
were regularly played in the Big Apple.
In the early and middle part of the 20th century, Ebbets Field,
the Polo Grounds, and Yankee Stadium hosted some of the most storied
college teams.
Major college football is coming back to New York next season,
starting when Army plays Notre Dame at the new $1.5 billion Yankee
Stadium.
A bowl game matching teams from the Big East and the Big 12
conferences to be played at Yankee Stadium following the 2010 season
is close to becoming a reality, and more regular-season college
games are also in the works.
"It is our goal to have two regular-season games as well as a
bowl game every year," ...