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A weekend for the record books on and off the field
Environment Canada reported record rainfall
– more than Windsor usually gets all month–
for Saturday, September 13.
Any other year, a football game in a
drenching like that at University of Windsor
Stadium would have pulverized the field
into black pulp until no one could find a
hash mark or tell the colours of the players’
jerseys. A true Mud Bowl.
However, the torrents that swept
across the stadium did not wash out the
game or stymie Lancer running back Daryl
Stephenson as he rushed for 115 yards to
become Canadian university football’s all-
time leading rusher.
Stephenson was able to plunge sure-
footed through the downpour to raise his
career total to 4,740 yards at least partly
because he was on the new artificial turf
– the same FieldTurf brand now found in
many of the best professional stadiums on
the continent.
It gives UWindsor a world-class venue
for local, provincial and national field sports,
putting the spotlight on the University and
our internationally linked community.
That’s why they were celebrating yet
another record that evening – record that will
have a lasting impact for years to come. This
was the record half-million-dollar donation
from the University of Windsor Alumni
Association to install the artificial turf at the
University of Windsor Stadium.
In recognition of the Alumni Association’s
largest gift ever to the University, the stadium
field has been named Alumni Field.
Being
Influential
YOUR UNIVERSITY
- UWindsor alumni,
donors and friends making a difference
Alumni Field now features artificial turf.
For more UWindsor info, visit
BY JOHN CARRINGTON
