2A - Thursday, October 26, 2006 MONDAY: Ten Spot TUESDAY: Arbor Anecdotes WEDNESDAY: FRIDAY: Jobs at the 'U' Explained _Before You Were Here What's the real stadium capacity? Here's a clue: It's not 107,501 It's a staple of any football Sat- urday at Michigan Stadium. In the second half, the announcer informs the crowd that it is once again the largest crowd watch- ing a football game anywhere in America. And the attendance is usually above 110,000. Therein lie the questions: Doesn't the Big House officially only seat 107,501? Why is our normal attendance between 109, 000 and 112,000? And what's with that one extra seat? The extra seat was included in the renovation plans by head football coach Fritz Crisler back in 1949. Crisler wanted the extra seat to be reserved for then-Ath- letic Director Fielding Yost. The legend goes that Crisler was the only one who actually knew where the extra seat was. The new plans raised the capacity of the stadium from he WHAT: An exbibit drawn afety from 100 shelves of the Hu s bard Imaginary Voyages tiga- Collection, including copi of "Gulliver's Travels" and "Swiss Family Robinson." 97, dat ins ins ble in in 1,0 80 sea lar unt of' Sta all' Big ad a1 res* thr try dar b- es The student section durint Michitan's victory over the Wis- consin Badgers on Sept. 23. Michigan Stadium holds far more people than its official capacity of 107,501. CAMPUS NEWS & NOTES 000 to 100,001 to accommo- te the post-World War II boom attendance and included the tallation of 13 rows of steel achers to replace temporary oden bleachers. Further renovations to seat- g in the Big House were made 1973. Capacity went up by 00 seats. and then another 0 in 1991, for a total of 102, 501 ats. The Big House was the gest stadium in the country til 1996 when the University Tennessee expanded Neyland idium. But the University refused to ow the Big House be the Next- gest House. In 1998, 5,000 ditional seats were added for grand total of 107,501 seats, toring the stadium to its one as the largest in the coun- However, the reported atten- nce for each game exceeds the in connection with the Royal Shakespeare Company's residence. The company will be on campus for just under three weeks. WHO: Michael Neill, a professor at the University of Auckland in New Zea- land WHEN: Today from noon to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Forum Hall, Palm- er Commons CORRECTIONS C A story on the front page of yesterday's Daily (Two campus groups and the student between them) misidentified Brian Hull as a former secretary of the Michigan Student'Assem- bly. Hull served as the assembly's treasurer. Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com. seating capacity. Isn't that a fire hazard of some kind? There's an explanation for that as well. 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