Rows in Sections 4 , 5 , 6 and 7 Elevated seating between the yardlines Easily see over the players on the sidelines and fans standing near the entry tunnels Seats in sections are among the first be shaded.
Rows in Sections 52 , 53 , 54 and 55 Sideline seating with comfortable views to both sides of the field Rows 4 and above can see above the railing at the front of each section Less-sunny side of the field reduces glare during late afternoon games.
Rows in Sections 1 , 2 , 10 and 11 Fully covered seating keeps everyone dry and mostly shaded Within 20 rows of the concourse tunnel Less expensive ticket price than most lower sideline seating. Drink and food vendors were fast, f Too low. Have to look at the Jumbotron to see the game. Food was good and the crowd was friendly. You just could not se There was a tv camera blocking some of the view.
We had great view of jumbotro Section 41, Row 7 Verified Customer. We had to watch the game from the jumbo-tron. Great s The only way to watch the game is to stare at the Jumbotron.
Do NOT Bench style seating and can be very tight especially when the folks in your row u Well managed and stocked with all the goodies. Section 39, Row 6 Verified Customer. Section 38, Row 17 Verified Customer. Each section has a varying amount of rows and seats.
As you look towards the field from your seats, lower number seats are on your right. Today, Jordan Hare Stadium seats 87, fans. The main lower grandstand surrounds the entire field and upper decks are located on both sides of the field. Luxury suites and the press box are located between the lower and upper decks. The city of Columbus, however, felt betrayed, a sentiment to be reflected in Birmingham nearly thirty years later. Horseshoe to Bowl Winning seasons and bowl invitations continued through the s, and thoughts quickly turned to another expansion.
Beard sums up the feelings of Auburn's leaders at the time: "Adding The Board of Trustees, on October 25, , unanimously approved a proposal to begin study for enlarging Cliff Hare Stadium, "due to the continued increase in student enrollments and the demand for football tickets at home games in Auburn. The Board agreed by June of that "it appears necessary and advisable to enlarge the capacity of Cliff Hare Stadium, enlarge the present press box facilities, and construct a new running track facility.
The coach feared visiting track teams might hide fresh runners under the stands to sneak in during a race. The new track would be named in Hutsell's honor. The resolution also called for modification and enlargement of the dressing facilities. The June resolution noted that an act had been passed in the first special session of the state legislature "to permit such construction and to make provisions for the financing of same. In the mean time, the Board's Naming of Buildings Committee recommended that the former field house, which would be sealed off from the stadium by the north stands enclosure and which was being renovated for classroom and lab use, be named for the late Dean George Petrie, who had connections with both the sciences and athletics at Auburn.
Turf had become popular among colleges in the late s, but despite consideration, Beard and Jordan rejected the idea. They had misgivings about the safety of the artificial surface. Expansion plans were finalized at a Board meeting on November 22, The Trustees were clearly enthusiastic about Auburn football: "Dr. Philpott the university president reviewed several details concerning Auburn's invitation to play the University of Houston in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl on December 31, The Board unanimously approved a nineteen year bond issue to finance the north stands construction, and then gathered around Dr.
Philpott to look at an artist's conception of the finished stadium. Auburn added an additional detail to the north end zone enclosure, one that made school officials proud. This really attracted a lot of attention in the state. The final cost of the addition, including the relocation of Hutsell Track, was just over one and a quarter million dollars.
Tiny Cliff Hare Stadium had grown into a full-fledged bowl, and time had come to honor the coach whose success enabled the growth to occur.
The honor recognized "Jordan's lasting contributions to Auburn football. Jordan would coach the remainder of that season and two more before retiring after the season. Writing in the program for the dedication game in , David Housel, current athletic director and former sports information director, reflected back on the competitive advantage Auburn had gained with its fine home stadium.
He called the newly-christened Jordan-Hare Stadium "perhaps the hardest place in the country for a visiting football team to win.
Bar none. During the Cliff Hare Stadium period, from to , Auburn posted a record of , which included a run of thirty straight wins at home with thirteen shutouts. Housel points out that many of these wins came against such powers as Georgia, Florida, and Georgia Tech. Auburn would enjoy a similar run during the s under Coach Pat Dye, and again in the mids under Coach Terry Bowden.
Housel also wrote of the monetary advantage for visitors playing in Jordan-Hare. He described Jordan-Hare as "an extremely popular place to play football" in the South, despite Auburn's considerable home field advantage. Both had played Auburn's home game in Birmingham's Legion Field for a number of years, a situation used by Alabama to argue that Legion Field was a "neutral site" for the Auburn-Alabama game.
Jordan-Hare was an unqualified success, selling out despite a dearth of championships and Sugar Bowl trips. With six home games a year by and revenues increasing, thoughts once again turned to expansion. An upper deck would be added to the west stands by , credited by the Auburn Media Guide as due to the exploits of players such as James Brooks and Joe Cribbs.
For whatever reason, the stadium's success despite the Tigers' mediocrity and probation during the late s proves that Auburn had finally come into its own. The Trustees of were slightly less enthusiastic over the prospect of expansion than their counterparts of earlier years had been. When Coach Lee Hayley, Chairman of the Stadium Expansion Committee, presented the recommendation of the committee for an upper deck and lighting to be installed, "a lengthy discussion ensued.
The days of instant unanimous votes for stadium growth had ended. The Board discussed the possibility of authorizing the president to develop a bond plan for funding the additions on June 5, Once again Coach Jordan motioned for a vote, and the Board approved the measure, eight to one. The matter came to a head on November 29, Once again, Coach Jordan asked for a vote of the Trustees, and by a margin of only four to three, the Board authorized the expansion.
The resolution stated that expansion and lighting of the stadium were "felt to be in the best interest for a quality athletic program at Auburn University. Approval at last obtained, construction began before the year was out. The Auburn Bulletin reported specifics on the new addition in late The deck towers feet over the field, and projects twenty feet out over Donahue Drive. The article describes the west deck's combination of press and television area, president's and athletic director's boxes, concession and reception areas, and a deck of over 10, new seats.
Light stands were incorporated into the west upper deck while three light towers stood feet over the east stands. These three towers would stand only seven years before making way for the east deck. The lights would not be used until Auburn's first night game, September 19, , against Wake Forest. The stadium itself, however, opened in renovated form to begin the season and was an immediate success. A tough competitor who had coached at Alabama under "Bear" Bryant and played at Georgia under Wally Butts, Dye understood the importance of making Auburn's home game with Alabama a true home game.
Jordan-Hare, though at this point holding over 72, fans, still trailed Birmingham's Legion Field in capacity. Dye knew that a stadium larger than Alabama's would be a lever with which he could move the heretofore intransigent Tide.
Almost immediately after taking the reigns at Auburn, he set out to make that goal a reality. In late , with a feasibility study completed, Dye's proposal came before the Board. On July 2, , the Board met in a special called meeting in Foy Union, on the Auburn campus, with much of the administration and the media present, in order to clarify the financial aspects of the expansion.
The new resolution pledged funds from revenue-generating sports, executive suite revenue, other concessions, and a portion of student fees to underwrite the stadium bond issue. Clearly the Alabama game figured prominently in the actions of the Trustees as well as in those of Dye. On December 21, , significantly only days after Alabama had defeated Auburn on a last-second field goal, in Birmingham, and on an Auburn "home" year, the Board voted unanimously to "endorse the recommendation of the Athletic Director [Dye] and the President of Auburn University and instructs that a contract be negotiated with the University of Alabama to have the Alabama game played in Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium when Auburn University is the home team.
With the posturing and paperwork complete, construction of the east upper deck began. This expansion also saw installation of the mammoth scoreboard, complete with animated display screen and massive public address system, over the south stands. Jordan-Hare, one of the few stadiums in the country with absolutely no interior advertising, could not allow a scoreboard which contained advertising.
Coca-Cola made the offer contingent on the right to sole distribution of Coke products in the stadium for the next ten years. The Board agreed. The eighth expansion, it would bring the stadium's capacity to its current level of 85, In addition to the deck of seats, more than a thousand scholarship donor seats and seventy-one luxury executive suites were built.
These skyboxes, expected to be leased by corporations entertaining clients, would figure significantly in the funding of the expansion. The University uses the seventy-first. The suites are carpeted, with theater seats, a kitchenette, bathrooms, heat and air conditioning, and a closed-circuit television. Food and alcoholic beverages are available in the suites as well.
In addition to the suites and a new section for high school recruits, former Associate Athletic Director Oval Jaynes saw other benefits to the expansion: "[It] will allow Auburn to move ahead with its scholarship donor program. Last season scholarship donors had to sit in the stands rather than in the special section on both sides of the press box. Room had existed for them within the stadium, but older season ticket holders would have had to be relocated to the end zones.
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