The University of Minnesota Will Get Its On-Campus Stadium

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The University of Minnesota successfully campaigns for an on-campus stadium.

Ook 706 Ab In the evening hours of Saturday, May 20, Minnesota lawmakers came together in St. Paul to launch a new era of Saturday afternoons in Minneapolis. By reaching a compromise on separate but related stadium funding bills, state senators and representatives pulled the University of Minnesota football program out from under the translucent roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome and back into the campus sunshine - something supporters of the Golden Gophers haven't felt at a football game in a quarter-century. "We've missed a generation of fans who weren't able to experience Big Ten football on campus," says assistant athletic director Phil Esten, "and now we're excited about bringing it back."

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