Goodwin Stadium was a stadium in Tempe, Arizona. It hosted the Arizona State University Sun Devils football team until they moved to Sun Devil Stadium in 1958, as well as the team for local Tempe High School[1] until 1969. The stadium held 15,000 people at its peak and was opened in 1936.
The stadium was named for Garfield Goodwin, former mayor of Tempe, member of the Arizona State Teachers College Board of Education and receiver on the 1899 Tempe Normal School football team.
Dormitory
The east side of the building housed a men's dormitory.[2]
Martin Luther King address
On June 3, 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered an address at Goodwin Stadium, titled "Religious Witness for Human Dignity". The address was not noted in many biographies of King and was only found in 2013, when a woman discovered it along with reels from civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale's radio show at a Goodwill store.[3] University president G. Homer Durham, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, showed progressivism in inviting King to speak at the university, since the LDS Church did not fully recognize racial equality until 1978.
Demolition and site reuse
The university needed the land on which Goodwin Stadium sat as it grew in the 1970s, and in 1976, the west side of Goodwin Stadium was knocked down with the east side following in 1978. A road (Lemon Street) was extended through the property; a parking garage now occupies the southern half of the footprint, while several buildings of the W. P. Carey School of Business were constructed on the site north of the extended Lemon Street. A plaque placed on the northwest corner of the parking garage, at College Avenue and Lemon Street, commemorates Goodwin Stadium's existence.
References
- ^ http://www.tuhsd.k12.az.us/ths/about_us/history.html
- ^ https://asunews.asu.edu/20110811_gallery_asurephotographed#4
- ^ Mahoney, Emily (2014-02-03). "ASU Libraries releases lost tape of Martin Luther King Jr. speech at the University". The State Press. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
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