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{{Infobox_Stadium |
== Accuracy Disputed ==
stadium_name = Folsom Field|
nickname = |
image = [[Image:Folsom Field.JPG|200px|Satellite View of Folsom Field in 2002.]] |
location = Colorado Ave<br>Boulder, CO 80309|
broke_ground = 1924|
opened = October 11, 1924 |
closed = |
demolished = |
owner = Univ. of Colorado|
operator = Univ. of Colorado|
surface = Grass |
construction_cost = $65,000 [[United States dollar|USD]] |
architect = |
former_names = Colorado Stadium ([[1924]]–[[1944]]) |
tenants = [[Colorado Buffaloes]] ([[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]]) ([[1924]]–present) |
seating_capacity = 53,425 |
}}
'''Folsom Field''' is a [[stadium]] in [[Boulder, Colorado]]. It is primarily used for [[American football|football]], and is the home field of the [[University of Colorado at Boulder|University of Colorado]] [[Colorado Buffaloes|Buffaloes]].


==History==
This article is more-or-less compeletely false in its assertion that Henry Wirz treated prisoners cruelly and makes absolutely no mention of the fact that the trial was a complete farce. All that I have read about Wirz notes that he actually did his best for the prisoners at Andersonville, but he lacked resources. The only person at his trial to claim to have been mistreated at Andersonville was a liar (he recanted his testimony later). The defense was not allowed to call the witnesses they wanted. Note the Library of Congress's summary of Wirz's trial. There are better sources than this, but this was quick.
Folsom Field opened in 1924, and has been the home of the CU football team ever since. Through the 2004 football season, the Buffs have a home record of 281-132-10, a winning percentage of .680.


Originally, it was named '''Colorado Stadium''', but in 1944 it was renamed after the great CU coach Frederick Folsom, who coached the Buffs three different times between 1895 and 1915. He led the teams to a combined .765 winning pct.
"Henry Wirz, former commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged on November 10, 1865 in Washington, D.C. Swiss-born Wirz was assigned to the command at Andersonville on March 27, 1864. When arrested on May 7, 1865, he was the only remaining member of the Confederate staff at the prison. Brigadier General John Winder, commander of Confederate prisons east of the Mississippi and Wirz's superior at Andersonville, died of a heart attack the previous February.


===Renovations===
A military tribunal tried Wirz on charges of conspiring with Jefferson Davis to "injure the health and destroy the lives of soldiers in the military service of the United States." Several individual acts of cruelty to Union prisoners were also alleged. Caught in the unfortunate position of answering for all of the misery that was Andersonville, he stood little chance of a fair trial. After two months of testimony rife with inconsistencies, Wirz was convicted on all counts and sentenced to death.
When originally opened, the stadium had a capacity of 26,000. A second deck was added in 1956 which upped the capacity to 45,000, and 6,000 more seats were added in 1967 with the removal of the running track. In 1968 a huge, six-level press box was added to the west side of the field, directly in front of Balch Fieldhouse, the former home of the basketball team. Renovations continued in 1976 when they took out the old, rickety wooden bleachers and replaced them with aluminum ones. This raised the capacity to 52,005. In 2003, suites and club seating was added to the east side of the stadium raising the capacity to 53,425.


== Playing surface ==
On the morning of November 10, 1865 Henry Wirz
From opening until 1971, the playing surface was natural grass. In 1971, [[AstroTurf]] was installed. The first game played on the new surface was on September 18 against the [[University of Wyoming]]. The Astroturf surface was replaced in 1978 and then again in 1989.


In the Spring of 1999, Folsom Field returned to natural grass. The project, which included bio-thermal heating, drainage, and a sub-air system, cost $1.2 million.
rose in his cell at the Old Capitol and wrote a last letter to his wife…Later that afternoon, after giving a few final strokes to a stray cat that had wandered in to share his confinement, he emerged from his cell with a black cambric robe draped over his shoulders…He followed the guards into an enclosed courtyard, where chanting soldiers and other spectators hung like vultures in the street. There was his life offered up to appease the public hysteria.
William Marvel, Andersonville: The Last Depot
(Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), p. 246-247."


==Other Uses==
→Sounds like a rather biased review of the events that took place[[User:69.42.44.152|69.42.44.152]] 04:30, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Folsom has played host to many top national recording acts, including [[The Rolling Stones]], [[The Who]], [[Paul McCartney]], [[Eagles]], [[Van Halen]], [[REO Speedwagon]], [[The Beach Boys]], [[Grateful Dead]], [[The Doobie Brothers]], [[Journey (band)|Journey]], [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]], [[John Mellencamp]] and the [[Dave Matthews Band]].


==Attendance Records==
Extremely so... if I had the sources handy I'd put the other side of it on here. History Channel just aired a decent even-handed doucmentary on Andersonville. In balance the worst that can be said about Wirz is that he ran Andersonville no worse than any other prisoner camp in the South, or even the North for that matter. If anything he did his best to take care of the prisoners in his care but greatly lacked the resources to give them decent care. He constantly asked his superiors for better quality food, to stop sending more prisoners in the already overcrowded prison, and even petitioned the Union government to renew the prisoner exchange program (evidence of this was not allowed to be admitted at his trial because it was deemed slanderous to the Lincoln administration). What is presented here is at worst wholly inaccurate and at best extremely biased. At the very least, the side of Wirz and his defense should be presented also. If anyone has the sources to do this it would present an infinitely more neutral point of view.
CU’s all-time record at Folsom Field, through 2003, is 271-129-10 for a .673 winning percentage. The largest crowd for a football game was 54,972 when the Buffs played [[Colorado State University]] on [[September 3]], [[2005]]. The top crowd ever at Folsom was for a rock concert, not a football game. On [[May 1]], [[1977]], for one of the popular Colorado ''Sun Day'' concert series, 61,500 (estimated, but exceeds largest football crowd by about 9000) turned out to see [[Fleetwood Mac]], [[Bob Seger]], [[Carlos Santana|Santana]] and [[Country Joe McDonald]].
{| class="wikitable"
|Season || Games || Sold Out || W-L-T || Attendance || Average
|-
|1937 || 6 || || 6-0-0 || 46,826 || 7,804
|-
|1942 || 4 || || 4-0-0 || 15,796 || 3,949
|-
|1946 || 5 || || 4-0-1 || 53,000 || 10,600
|-
|1947 || 4 || || 2-2-0 || 54,000 || 13,500
|-
|1948 || 5 || || 3-2-0 || 79,479 || 15,896
|-
|1949 || 5 || || 2-3-0 || 98,776 || 19,755
|-
|1950 || 5 || || 4-1-0 || 97,748 || 19,550
|-
|1951 || 5 || || 5-0-0 || 107,121 || 21,424
|-
|1952 || 5 || 2 || 3-0-2 || 123,481 || 24,696
|-
|1953 || 5 || || 3-2-0 || 113,640 || 22,728
|-
|1954 || 5 || 2 || 3-2-0 || 129,700 || 25,940
|-
|1955 || 5 || 1 || 4-1-0 || 113,500 || 22,700
|-
|1956 || 5 || 2 || 3-2-0 || 175,000 || 35,000
|-
|1957 || 5 || || 3-2-0 || 152,500 || 30,500
|-
|1958 || 5 || 1 || 2-3-0 || 187,500 || 37,500
|-
|1959 || 6 || || 3-3-0 || 177,903 || 29,651
|-
|1960 || 5 || 1 || 4-1-0 || 185,653 || 37,131
|-
|1961 || 6 || 1 || 5-1-0 || 199,987 || 33,331
|-
|1962 || 4 || || 2-2-0 || 116,000 || 29,000
|-
|1963 || 5 || || 1-4-0 || 135,000 || 27,000
|-
|1964 || 5 || || 1-4-0 || 140,600 || 28,120
|-
|1965 || 5 || || 3-1-1 || 129,700 || 25,940
|-
|1966 || 5 || 1 || 3-2-0 || 196,188 || 39,238
|-
|1967 || 5 || || 4-1-0 || 196,817 || 39,363
|-
|1968 || 5 || 1 || 3-2-0 || 215,574 || 43,115
|-
|1969 || 5 || || 5-0-0 || 175,104 || 35,021
|-
|1970 || 5 || 1 || 3-2-0 || 219,521 || 43,904
|-
|1971 || 5 || || 5-0-0 || 220,171 || 44,034
|-
|1972 || 6 || 3 || 5-1-0 || 307,044 || 51,174
|-
|1973 || 5 || || 3-2-0 || 246,521 || 49,304
|-
|1974 || 5 || 2 || 3-2-0 || 253,762 || 50,752
|-
|1975 || 6 || || 6-0-0 || 281,199 || 46,867
|-
|1976 || 6 || 2 || 5-1-0 || 300,191 || 50,032
|-
|1977 || 6 || 2 || 5-1-0 || 293,483 || 48,914
|-
|1978 || '''8''' || 2 || 5-3-0 || '''383,048''' || 47,881
|-
|1979 || 6 || || 1-5-0 || 265,956 || 44,326
|-
|1980 || 6 || 1 || 1-5-0 || 245,868 || 40,978
|-
|1981 || 6 || || 3-3-0 || 209,224 || 34,871
|-
|1982 || 7 || 1 || 1-6-0 || 251,909 || 41,985
|-
|1983 || 6 || 1 || 3-3-0 || 237,674 || 39,612
|-
|1984 || 6 || 1 || 1-5-0 || 235,670 || 39,278
|-
|1985 || 6 || || 4-2-0 || 220,734 || 36,789
|-
|1986 || 6 || 2 || 3-3-0 || 269,546 || 44,924
|-
|1987 || 6 || 1 || 4-2-0 || 268,711 || 44,785
|-
|1988 || 6 || || 4-2-0 || 235,142 || 39,190
|-
|1989 || 6 || 2 || 6-0-0 || 293,726 || 48,954
|-
|1990 || 6 || 4 || 6-0-0 || 310,374 || 51,729
|-
|1991 || 6 || 4 || 4-1-1 || 311,458 || 51,910
|-
|1992 || 6 || 4 || 5-0-1 || 309,900 || 51,650
|-
|1993 || 6 || 5 || 4-2-0 || 311,360 || 51,893
|-
|1994 || 6 || 3 || 6-0-0 || 304,897 || 50,816
|-
|1995 || 6 || 4 || 4-2-0 || 312,958 || '''52,160'''
|-
|1996 || 6 || 4 || 5-1-0 || 312,586 || 52,098
|-
|1997 || 6 || 2 || 3-3-0 || 309,947 || 51,658
|-
|1998 || 6 || || 5-1-0 || 284,512 || 47,419
|-
|1999 || 5 || 1 || 4-1-0 || 239,313 || 47,863
|-
|2000 || 5 || || 1-4-0 || 249,950 || 49,990
|-
|2001 || 6 || 1 || 5-1-0 || 284,848 || 47,475
|-
|2002 || 6 || 2 || 5-1-0 || 295,286 || 49,214
|-
|2003 || 6 || 2 || 3-3-0 || 302,588 || 50,431
|-
|2004 || || || || ||
|-
|2005 || || || || ||
|}



It's worth pointing out that Wiki's article on the Andersonville Prison itself is nowhere near as biased as the article on Wirz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersonville_Prison
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Folsom Field
Satellite View of Folsom Field in 2002.
Map
Former namesColorado Stadium (1924–1944)
LocationColorado Ave
Boulder, CO 80309
OwnerUniv. of Colorado
OperatorUniv. of Colorado
Capacity53,425
SurfaceGrass
Construction
Broke ground1924
OpenedOctober 11, 1924
Construction cost$65,000 USD
Tenants
Colorado Buffaloes (NCAA) (1924–present)

Folsom Field is a stadium in Boulder, Colorado. It is primarily used for football, and is the home field of the University of Colorado Buffaloes.

History

Folsom Field opened in 1924, and has been the home of the CU football team ever since. Through the 2004 football season, the Buffs have a home record of 281-132-10, a winning percentage of .680.

Originally, it was named Colorado Stadium, but in 1944 it was renamed after the great CU coach Frederick Folsom, who coached the Buffs three different times between 1895 and 1915. He led the teams to a combined .765 winning pct.

Renovations

When originally opened, the stadium had a capacity of 26,000. A second deck was added in 1956 which upped the capacity to 45,000, and 6,000 more seats were added in 1967 with the removal of the running track. In 1968 a huge, six-level press box was added to the west side of the field, directly in front of Balch Fieldhouse, the former home of the basketball team. Renovations continued in 1976 when they took out the old, rickety wooden bleachers and replaced them with aluminum ones. This raised the capacity to 52,005. In 2003, suites and club seating was added to the east side of the stadium raising the capacity to 53,425.

Playing surface

From opening until 1971, the playing surface was natural grass. In 1971, AstroTurf was installed. The first game played on the new surface was on September 18 against the University of Wyoming. The Astroturf surface was replaced in 1978 and then again in 1989.

In the Spring of 1999, Folsom Field returned to natural grass. The project, which included bio-thermal heating, drainage, and a sub-air system, cost $1.2 million.

Other Uses

Folsom has played host to many top national recording acts, including The Rolling Stones, The Who, Paul McCartney, Eagles, Van Halen, REO Speedwagon, The Beach Boys, Grateful Dead, The Doobie Brothers, Journey, Jethro Tull, John Mellencamp and the Dave Matthews Band.

Attendance Records

CU’s all-time record at Folsom Field, through 2003, is 271-129-10 for a .673 winning percentage. The largest crowd for a football game was 54,972 when the Buffs played Colorado State University on September 3, 2005. The top crowd ever at Folsom was for a rock concert, not a football game. On May 1, 1977, for one of the popular Colorado Sun Day concert series, 61,500 (estimated, but exceeds largest football crowd by about 9000) turned out to see Fleetwood Mac, Bob Seger, Santana and Country Joe McDonald.

Season Games Sold Out W-L-T Attendance Average
1937 6 6-0-0 46,826 7,804
1942 4 4-0-0 15,796 3,949
1946 5 4-0-1 53,000 10,600
1947 4 2-2-0 54,000 13,500
1948 5 3-2-0 79,479 15,896
1949 5 2-3-0 98,776 19,755
1950 5 4-1-0 97,748 19,550
1951 5 5-0-0 107,121 21,424
1952 5 2 3-0-2 123,481 24,696
1953 5 3-2-0 113,640 22,728
1954 5 2 3-2-0 129,700 25,940
1955 5 1 4-1-0 113,500 22,700
1956 5 2 3-2-0 175,000 35,000
1957 5 3-2-0 152,500 30,500
1958 5 1 2-3-0 187,500 37,500
1959 6 3-3-0 177,903 29,651
1960 5 1 4-1-0 185,653 37,131
1961 6 1 5-1-0 199,987 33,331
1962 4 2-2-0 116,000 29,000
1963 5 1-4-0 135,000 27,000
1964 5 1-4-0 140,600 28,120
1965 5 3-1-1 129,700 25,940
1966 5 1 3-2-0 196,188 39,238
1967 5 4-1-0 196,817 39,363
1968 5 1 3-2-0 215,574 43,115
1969 5 5-0-0 175,104 35,021
1970 5 1 3-2-0 219,521 43,904
1971 5 5-0-0 220,171 44,034
1972 6 3 5-1-0 307,044 51,174
1973 5 3-2-0 246,521 49,304
1974 5 2 3-2-0 253,762 50,752
1975 6 6-0-0 281,199 46,867
1976 6 2 5-1-0 300,191 50,032
1977 6 2 5-1-0 293,483 48,914
1978 8 2 5-3-0 383,048 47,881
1979 6 1-5-0 265,956 44,326
1980 6 1 1-5-0 245,868 40,978
1981 6 3-3-0 209,224 34,871
1982 7 1 1-6-0 251,909 41,985
1983 6 1 3-3-0 237,674 39,612
1984 6 1 1-5-0 235,670 39,278
1985 6 4-2-0 220,734 36,789
1986 6 2 3-3-0 269,546 44,924
1987 6 1 4-2-0 268,711 44,785
1988 6 4-2-0 235,142 39,190
1989 6 2 6-0-0 293,726 48,954
1990 6 4 6-0-0 310,374 51,729
1991 6 4 4-1-1 311,458 51,910
1992 6 4 5-0-1 309,900 51,650
1993 6 5 4-2-0 311,360 51,893
1994 6 3 6-0-0 304,897 50,816
1995 6 4 4-2-0 312,958 52,160
1996 6 4 5-1-0 312,586 52,098
1997 6 2 3-3-0 309,947 51,658
1998 6 5-1-0 284,512 47,419
1999 5 1 4-1-0 239,313 47,863
2000 5 1-4-0 249,950 49,990
2001 6 1 5-1-0 284,848 47,475
2002 6 2 5-1-0 295,286 49,214
2003 6 2 3-3-0 302,588 50,431
2004
2005


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