Lair of the Lion

Lee Stout is Librarian Emeritus at the Penn State University Libraries. He is the author of Ice Cream U: The Story of the Nation’s Most Successful Collegiate Creamery and A Matter of Simple Justice: The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a Few Good Women, also available from Penn State University Press.Harry H. West is Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at Penn State University, co-recipient of the 1970 Moissieff Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and recipient of the 1996 Teaching Fellow Award of the Penn State Alumni Association.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Old Beaver Field2 “Wish-Wack, Pink and Black, Go State Go”3 New Beaver Field: The Wooden Era4 New Beaver Field: The Steel Era5 Football Games at New Beaver Field6 Beaver Field Becomes Beaver Stadium7 “The Big Lift”8 The North-End Upper Deck9 Beaver Stadium Becomes a Building10 A New Era: Heritage Recognized11 Continuity and Change on Game Day12 Beaver Stadium’s Importance and FutureAfterword: The Power of PlaceNotesSelected BibliographyIndexCredits

“One could not find better, more authoritative authors to collaborate on [this] book than Lee Stout and Harry West.”—Lou Prato Blue White Illustrated