Olympia Stadium (BR Catholic High Football)

Baw, it will never be ready in time

They finally adding bleachers after 40 years?

Memorial > Olympia

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Memorial > Olympia

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I remember as a kid circa 1980 watching a Tara-Broadmoor game that packed Memorial Stadium...at least 20,000 were there. Now with the sorry state of public schools in this town, and the location of the stadium, there are games that barely draw 200 fans. It's sad.

And a bowl game or 2 in the early 70's.

And Southern played their games there for a year or 2 in the 80's while their stadium was being renovated.

I saw Terry Bradshaw and LA Tech play in the Grantland Rice Bowl in Memorial Stadium. In the 70's most of our high school games were there.

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Memorial is a neat little stadium. It's a shame it's shite in a shite location now

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I would be curious to know what year it opened and who some of the legends were that played there. I can only date it back to the early 70's. I doubt it's old enough that Billy Cannon or Jimmy Taylor might have played HS ball there...and I don't know what all schools existed in the 60's who might have been tenants. Broadmoor and Tara opened in the 70's. McKinley was around I think...but might have played on their campus. Istrouma High had their own stadium too I believe. I don't know where BRHS played.

Any old timers here with some knowledge?

ETA: apparently they started playing HS games there in 1956. Would love to hear if anyone has memories of games they might have seen there. The oldest recounts I have heard have been about the earlier-mentioned Grantland Rice Bowl in the 70s

My grandfather was QB for that istrouma team with Cannon.

He used to tell me him and his brother would make him cry every practice.

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Went to a game between Bogalusa and Istrouma in the early 60s.

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I know as of the 90's, Istrouma had their own stadium on campus....do you know if they had it back then and maybe just played "big games" at Memorial since it was bigger?

Also, even though they are 2 hours apart, weren't Istrouma and Bogalusa actually in the same district back then?

Istrouma started using their stadium in th mid 70's and hosted a lot of games as all the other schools used Memorial or Olympia and each stadium had 4 games a week. East Ascension was in the same district as the BR schools and hosted a lot of games.
In 1964, the Friday before Hurricane Hilda hit LA, my brother was a Freshman at Catholic High in the band and they had a game at Memorial. My father was at the game and said the light poles swayed in the wind. No cancellations in the 60's

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irst football game I ever saw in person.. 1970 AAAA state title game West Jeff vs Bogalusa....

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Where was it played?

For that matter, where were the HS finals played before the Dome? Did the higher seed get to host? Or was there another neutral site?