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Alonzo Stagg Field is the name of two different football
American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
 fields for the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
. The earliest Stagg Field is probably best remembered for its role in a landmark scientific achievement by Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of Quantum mechanics, nuclear physics and particle physics, and statistical mechanics....
 during the Manhattan Project
Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was the project to develop the first atomic weapon during World War II; involving the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada....
. The site of the first nuclear reaction received designation as a National Historic Landmark
National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark is a building, :wiktionary:site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the Federal government of the United States for its historical significance....
 on February 18, 1965. On October 15, 1966, which is the day that the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966
National Historic Preservation Act of 1966

The National Historic Preservation Act is legislation intended to preserve historical and archaeology sites in the United States of America. The act created the National Register of Historic Places, the list of National Historic Landmarks, and the State Historic Preservation Offices....
 was enacted creating the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation....
, it was added to that as well.






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Alonzo Stagg Field is the name of two different football
American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
 fields for the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
. The earliest Stagg Field is probably best remembered for its role in a landmark scientific achievement by Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of Quantum mechanics, nuclear physics and particle physics, and statistical mechanics....
 during the Manhattan Project
Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was the project to develop the first atomic weapon during World War II; involving the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada....
. The site of the first nuclear reaction received designation as a National Historic Landmark
National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark is a building, :wiktionary:site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the Federal government of the United States for its historical significance....
 on February 18, 1965. On October 15, 1966, which is the day that the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966
National Historic Preservation Act of 1966

The National Historic Preservation Act is legislation intended to preserve historical and archaeology sites in the United States of America. The act created the National Register of Historic Places, the list of National Historic Landmarks, and the State Historic Preservation Offices....
 was enacted creating the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation....
, it was added to that as well. The site was named a Chicago Landmark
Chicago Landmark

Chicago Landmark is a designation of the Mayor of Chicago and the Chicago City Council for historic buildings and other sites in Chicago, Illinois, United States....
 on October 27, 1971.

First nuclear chain reaction

On December 2, 1942 Enrico Fermi and his team set off the first nuclear chain reaction
Nuclear chain reaction

A nuclear chain reaction occurs when one nuclear reaction causes an average of one or more nuclear reactions, thus leading to a self-propagating number of these reactions....
 at Chicago Pile-1 in a racquets
Racquets (sport)

Rackets or Racquets is an indoor racquet sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. The sport is infrequently called "hard rackets," possibly to distinguish it from the related sport of squash ....
 court under the west stands of the abandoned stadium. The old Stagg Field plot of land is currently home to the Regenstein Library
Regenstein Library

The Joseph Regenstein Library is the main library of the University of Chicago, named after industrialist and philanthropist Joseph Regenstein. Holding over 4.4 million volumes, it is one of the largest repositories of books in the world, and is noted for its brutalist architecture....
. A Henry Moore
Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore Order of Merit Companion of Honour Federation of British Artists was an English artist and Sculpture. He is best known for his abstract art monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as Public art....
 sculpture, Nuclear Energy, in a small quadrangle commemorates the nuclear experiment.

Sports venue


First Stagg Field

The first Stagg Field was a stadium
Stadium

A modern stadium is a place, or venue, for outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field or stage partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event....
 at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
 in Chicago, Illinois. It was primarily used for college football
American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
 games, and was the home field of the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
. Stagg Field originally opened in 1893 as Marshall Field after Marshall Field
Marshall Field

Marshall Field was founder of Marshall Field's, the Chicago-based department stores....
 donated land to the university to build the stadium. In 1913, the field was renamed Stagg Field after their famous coach Amos Alonzo Stagg
Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg was an United States collegiate coach in multiple sports, primarily American football, and an overall athletic pioneer. He was born in West Orange, New Jersey, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy....
. The final capacity, after several stadium expansions, was 50,000. The University of Chicago discontinued its football program after 1939 and left the Big Ten in 1946. The stadium was demolished in 1957.

New Stagg Field

The current Stagg Field is an athletic field located several blocks to the northwest that preserves the Stagg Field name, as well as a relocated gate from the original facility. The school's current Division III
Division III

Division III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States....
 football team uses the new field as their home. Stagg Field has a seating capacity of 1,650.

See also

  • SCRAM
    Scram

    A scram or SCRAM is an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor – though the term has been extended to cover shutdowns of other complex operations, such as server farms and even large model railroads ....


External links

  • Photographs from assembling the pile
  • Artist drawing of CP-1