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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: There’s A Bulldozer Under The University Of Illinois’ Stadium - Or Is There?
Description: Today in 1924, the University of Illinois dedicated Memorial Stadium, which holds some 60,000 football fans and, legend has it, one bulldozer. We'll look at what really happened. Plus: this weekend in Crowley, Louisiana, it’s the International Rice Festival.
Campus Mythbusting: Is there a bulldozer buried beneath Memorial Stadium? (University of Illinois Archives)Â
Crowley International Rice Festival
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