Harvard Stadium opens.

Architect: Charles Follen McKim. And Daniel Burnham. Harvard loses to Dartmouth 11-0 in the first game played at the new stadium at today’s 79 North Harvard Street. The first permanent football stadium in the U.S., it initially seats 22,000 fans and its dimensions are said to give rise to the institution of the forward pass in football. Its capacity is subsequently expanded to hold as many as 57,166, and its current capacity is 30,323. Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell subsequently writes, “It’s a beautiful building. It successfully employs classical imagery to suggest the tradition of athletics going back to Greece and Rome, but does so without pretension and without disguising the fact that this was probably the biggest single chunk of concrete in the world up to that time.”