Memorial Stadium True Illini Spirit (2008)

Documentary traces the history of Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois in UrbanaChampaign Covers the earliest days of football at the university to early concepts for a stadium World War I honoring the true Fighting Illini and the first games at the arena built in the early 1920s Historical film and photographs are mixed with interviews from noted Illinois football players architects historians contractors veterans and their families college marching band directors newspaper reporters and broadcasters