An Orange Homecoming Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is the renovated Memorial Stadium in Champaign, IL. Home of the University of Illinois football team. This was the homecoming game against Minnesota where the Illini lost 20-27.

Both the University of Illinois and the University of Missouri claim to have invented homecoming.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign credits two senior members of the class of 1910 with establishing the tradition of homecoming at Illinois. These two men were Clarence F. Williams and W. Elmer Ekblaw. According to recollections Williams in 1930, the idea came to the two men in 1910 while they were sitting on the steps of the YMCA discussing ways of contributing to their alma mater. The men's idea culminated in Illinois' first homecoming event on October 15, 1910. The event celebration centered around the football game against the University of Chicago, and it also included various alumni reunions, initiations, and banquets.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homecoming

There is also a basketball court in the south end of the stadium because the Illinois Basketball Team held the "World's Biggest Basketball Practice" during halftime and after the game.

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I reposted this picture because I figured out how to post a bigger picture and fixed the cropping.

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mark_mk (246) 2008-10-27 8:42

Hi Bill,
it`s a nice shot out of the stadium! What I like here is the crop, more people in the foreground would ahve been too much, though I wonder if you could have pointed the camera a bit more to the right to have more of the field in the frame, but maybe that wasn`t possible, so therefore I might be asking too much.
The image is nice, it just lacks some foreground sharpness and the left side of the sky is a bit too bright, I tried to correct that in a WS, I hope you like it and find it useful!

Take care
Mark

PS: Thanks for the note, very informative!

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Sistercosmo (2691) 2008-10-27 9:26

Hi Bill,
I like your pov and the colorful, busy shot. Excellent note too.
Thanks for sharing and see you around!
Linda