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Published: June 15, 2009
OSU's Boone Pickens Stadium renovations: It's not your father's Lewis Field
STILLWATER — When Bill Young arrived as a student at Oklahoma State in 1964, the seating capacity of Lewis Field was 39,000.
The facility hadn’t been expanded since 1950, and a dirt track circled the football field.
In one end zone, there were cedar trees and a scoreboard that was so bad "no high school would dare want it,” according to Young.
"The stadium looked like an er...
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