5. Yale Bowl, Yale University
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Popular Mechanics: “With nearly 71,000 seats when it opened more than a century ago, this was the first bowl shape in football and inspired many of the country’s most famous stadiums. The design of the façade matched the Neo-Gothic tradition on campus. Deemed a National Historic Landmark, the Yale Bowl gave the world a new way to watch football.”
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Our Take: Maybe you think of the Rose Bowl, or Michigan Stadium when you think of bowl stadiums, but those are merely imitators of this college football original. In typical Ivy League fashion Yale led the way with the construction of their bowl stadium in 1914, the first of it’s kind in the country. Yale is truly a college football haven.
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