12 Things You Didn't Know About Ohio State Football's Ohio Stadium

Ohio State football keeps a bell 150 feet up a stadium tower, a vote that sent an unbeaten team home from the Rose Bowl, and a marching band that writes Ohio in cursive — and that is only part of the twelve secrets below. 12 things you didn't know about Ohio State football: a mascot made of papier-mâché, colors picked after Princeton took orange and black, a stadium built for a man who never played in it, a game where Michigan never made a first down — and the band's Script Ohio. 📍 Ohio Stadium, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 12 Things You Didn't Know About Ohio State Football 00:47 The place: city, university and football program 02:47 12. The Bell 150 Feet Up 03:17 11. A Buckeye Made of Paper 04:01 10. The Sticker Nobody Can Trace 04:41 9. Orange and Black Was Taken 05:26 8. Four Hours for Sloopy 06:16 7. The Stadium Below the River 06:55 6. The Song From an 86–0 Train Ride 07:38 5. The Gold Pants 08:22 4. The House That Harley Built 09:13 3. The Snow Bowl 09:56 2. The Faculty Voted No 10:42 1. Script Ohio 11:41 Plan your Ohio State game day 12:18 Now you know all twelve 📚 Before the countdown you get the place in numbers: Columbus (905,748 people at the 2020 census), the university's founding in 1870 as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College and its new name in 1878, football since 1890, Ohio Stadium's 102,780 seats, and the program's Heisman winners. 🎟️ Plan your own Buckeyes game day Official athletics site: https://ohiostatebuckeyes.com/ The Ohio State University: https://www.osu.edu/ The Ohio State University Marching Band: https://tbdbitl.osu.edu/ Experience Columbus: https://www.experiencecolumbus.com/ Getting there: John Glenn Columbus International Airport is about 8 miles by road from campus. Fan tip: the band's Skull Session in St. John Arena starts two hours and twenty minutes before kickoff — up to 14,000 people pack it — and the ramp entrance into Ohio Stadium follows. ▶️ A new college every week — subscribe to College Traditions Secrets, and tell us in the comments which program we should crack open next. 🔎 Facts checked against ohiostatebuckeyes.com (Ohio State Athletics), tbdbitl.osu.edu, the Ohio State University Libraries, osu.edu, Ohio State News, Wikipedia, NCAA.com, Sports Illustrated and ESPN. The helmet-sticker origin (#10) is disputed and told that way; the Carmen Ohio train story (#6) is a legend; the first Script Ohio is dated to October 10, 1936 by the band's own site, while some sources say October 24 — Michigan's band spelled a cursive "Ohio" in 1932 (#1). ⚖️ College Traditions Secrets is an independent channel and is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Ohio State University, its athletics department, the Big Ten or the NCAA. Team names, logos, "Brutus Buckeye" and "Script Ohio" belong to The Ohio State University. 📸 Image credits Photos via Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0: RightCowLeftCoast, Lectrician2, Nheyob, Kirchybaby, Addis Wang, JonRidinger, Kevin Payravi · CC BY 3.0: Joebengo (Wikimedia Commons user) · CC BY 4.0: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY-SA 3.0: Pi.1415926535, Robert Chriss, Btrains, Nheyob, Btrains (Wikimedia Commons user) · CC BY 2.0: puroticorico, Prayitno / Thank you for (12 millions +), Wally Gobetz, James St. John · GFDL: Int3gr4te Public domain / CC0: The Ohio State University Libraries and Photo Archives (via DPLA), David E. Lucas, Carol M. Highsmith, Paul Wasneski, Smallbones (CC0), CarCai (CC0), Grace Freeman, Dean L. Rager, City of Columbus, Columbus Citizen-Journal, Metronome Records, photographers of unknown authorship. Stock: Pexels (Sora Shimazaki, Sergei Starostin, Tanja Lončarić Leontić, Andrew Patrick Photo, Gundula Vogel, Christina & Peter, Bem Partington, Recep ÇELİK, RDNE Stock project, Marcelo Mora, Engin Akyurt, SÀI GÒN CÔNG TY CP SẢN XUẤT - THƯƠNG MẠI, Pavel Danilyuk, Karam Alani, Freek Wolsink, Nothing Ahead, Castorly Stock, Skyler Ewing, kaboompics.com, Tom Fisk, Shameel mukkath, Tolga deniz Aran). Every photo's author, license and source link are listed in the pinned comment. #OhioStateFootball #CollegeFootball #OhioStadium #ScriptOhio #Buckeyes #CollegeFootballHistory