Pratt Field (1916)

Item Information

Title:
Pratt Field (1916)
Description:
This lantern slide shows an aerial view of Pratt Field in 1916. The shot is most likely taken from the top of the Administration building. The roof of the Administration Building and Woods Hall can be seen in the lower half of the photograph. Herbert L. Pratt donated the necessary funds for the construction of Pratt Field. The athletic grounds originally consisted of a quarter mile track, a 220-yard straightaway, eleven jumping pits, space for weight throwing, seven tennis courts, a football field, and a baseball diamond. An eight-foot-high reinforced concrete fence surrounded the field. The entrances were designed by Edward Lippincourt Tilton, who also designed Judd Gymnasia and the Marsh Memorial Building. The field formally opened in the fall of 1910, in connection with a football game, but the grandstand was not built until 1911. The grandstand could seat 1,200 people and contained storage rooms, a massage room, a dressing room, showers, lockers, bathrooms, a ticket office, and a check room. Both the grandstand and Pratt Field were built by the Fred T. Ley Company. Before the construction, the college’s outdoor athletics were confined to a six-acre field south of the gymnasium and fourteen acres north of Alden Street. For more information, see Elmer Berry's "The Pratt Athletic Field" (The Association Seminar, vol. 19 no. 9, June 1911). Text on border reads, "YMCA College Pratt Field 1916."
Date:
1916
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
College Archives Digital Collections
Series:
Lantern Slide Collection
Subjects:
International Young Men's Christian Association College
Springfield College
Pratt Field
Administration Building
Woods Hall
Springfield College--Athletic Fields
Springfield (Mass.)
Walls
Bleachers
Grandstands
Athletic fields
Buildings
Lantern slides
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
Extent:
3x4 in
Link to Item:
http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/3694
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Identifier:
LS-03-33