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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Big South Conference football uniforms


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Rotary Field
Ejgreen77, I see that you've done a lot of work on CFB articles in general and the Buffalo Bulls in specific. Could you check out my new article at Rotary Field and see if you've got anything to add? I don't have any personal experience of the campus or the program, so there may be some glaring omissions.

In researching this article I found that from 1946 to 1955, War Memorial Stadium/Civic Stadium was the Bulls' home field, so I updated the navbox accordingly. After 1955, UB started using Rotary Field again, but for at least the first few years they played a split schedule at Civic and Rotary (in particular, I found, in articles in newspapers that covered the visiting teams, that the 1958 Buffalo Bulls football team played two games at Civic (vs. Columbia and vs. Temple) and at least one (vs. Bucknell) at Rotary. I'm not sure about the B-W game. If you have any insight on this, it would probably help the article. Or it would just be something to keep in mind when the rest of the 1950s season articles get written.

I don't currently plan on writing a Kunz Stadium article -- my current project of writing Ivy League season histories has me stuck in the 1950s and 60s right now -- but that would be the last redlink in the UB stadium history. Cheers! ``` t b w i l l i e ` $1.25 ` 17:13, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Wow, nice job!!! Yeah, Rotary was before my time, so I really don't have any first hand knowledge to contribute there. I didn't know about the split schedules, but it makes sense: between The Rockpile and The Aud, those two venues hosted just about every collegiate or professional sports team in Erie County that existed in the mid-to-late 20th century at one point or another. Those UB teams in the late 50's/early 60's were in the process of upgrading from the NCAA's College Division to the University Division, so the administration may have wanted to play some games in a venue with a higher capacity, though that's strictly just a guess on my part. Kunz Stadium still exists, it is used primarily for intramurals today at UB; though it hasn't been maintained or updated and has fallen into disrepair since UB Stadium opened in 1993. It's located about a mile west from where the current UB Stadium sits. Ejgreen77 (talk) 06:28, 15 July 2020 (UTC)