- TD Waterhouse Stadium
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stadium_name = TD Waterhouse Stadium
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location = London, Ontario
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opened = 2000
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owner = University of Western Ontario
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surface = FieldTurf
construction_cost = $10.5 million
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tenants = University of Western Ontario
seating_capacity = 8000-16000
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scoreboard =TD Waterhouse Stadium is an 8,000-seat
Canadian football stadium located at 100Philip Aziz Avenue on the campus of theUniversity of Western Ontario inLondon, Ontario ,Canada . It was built in2000 at a cost of approximately $10.5-million and replaced J.W. Little Stadium.In addition to playing host to the
Western Mustangs teams, TD Waterhouse Stadium was also used as the main venue for the 2001Canada Summer Games . The stadium is expandable to a capacity of about 16,000; it has been expanded temporarily a few times in its history including for an exhibition CFL game in2002 between theToronto Argonauts andHamilton Tiger-Cats .It also holds host to all "Red Feather" games, in which local senior high school football teams play their first game of the season. Students are brought to the events to cheer on their team, the student body that cheers best wins a spirit award.
In the summer of 2007, the old AstroTurf was replaced by new FieldTurf at a cost of approximately 1 million dollars. [http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/OtherSports/2007/06/19/4272720-sun.html]
External links
* [http://www.londontourism.ca/sportstour.aspx?&sitemapid=9 Link to Virtual Tour of TD Waterdouse Stadium]
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