About: Veterans Stadium   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/J1mLheyouYbcNvSBXpt3wQ==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

It housed the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles, from 1971 to 2002 and the National League's Philadelphia Phillies baseball team, from 1971 to 2003. The 1976 and 1996 Major League Baseball All-Star Games were held at the venue. The Vet also hosted the annual Army-Navy football game seventeen times, first in 1976 and last in 2001. In addition to professional baseball and football, the stadium hosted other amateur and professional sports, large entertainment events and other civic affairs.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Veterans Stadium
rdfs:comment
  • It housed the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles, from 1971 to 2002 and the National League's Philadelphia Phillies baseball team, from 1971 to 2003. The 1976 and 1996 Major League Baseball All-Star Games were held at the venue. The Vet also hosted the annual Army-Navy football game seventeen times, first in 1976 and last in 2001. In addition to professional baseball and football, the stadium hosted other amateur and professional sports, large entertainment events and other civic affairs.
  • Philadelphia Veterans Stadium (informally called "The Vet") was a professional-sports, multi-purpose stadium, located at the northeast corner of Broad Street and Pattison Avenue, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as part of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. The listed seating capacities, in 1971, were 62,000 seats, for football and 56,371, for baseball. In addition to professional baseball and football, the stadium hosted other amateur and professional sports, large entertainment events and other civic affairs.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:americanfoo...iPageUsesTemplate
dbkwik:baseball/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
structural engineer
  • McCormick Taylor & Associates, Inc.
Footer
  • Veterans Stadium before and during of one of U2's Zoo TV Tour shows in 1992.
Team
  • Virginia Tech Hokies
  • Temple Owls
demolished
  • 2004-03-21(xsd:date)
Dimensions
  • Backstop — 54 feet
  • Baseball:
  • Center field — 408 feet
  • Left center field — 371 feet
  • Left field — 330 feet
  • Right center field — 371 feet
  • Right field — 330 feet
Closed
  • 2003-09-28(xsd:date)
Nickname
  • "The Vet"
Align
  • right
Caption
  • Aerial view of stadium .
broke ground
  • 1967-10-02(xsd:date)
construction cost
  • 5.0E7
Width
  • 200(xsd:integer)
Current Location
  • Parking lot for Citizens Bank Park
Title
  • Temple
  • Virginia Tech
  • Host of the All-Star Game
  • Host of NFC Championship Game
  • Home of the Philadelphia Eagles
  • Home of the Philadelphia Phillies
stadium name
  • Philadelphia Veterans Stadium
Operator
direction
  • vertical
general contractor
  • McCloskey & Co.
Before
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software