CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Illinois has announced detailed plans for the upcoming Memorial Stadium Rededication weekend, set for Thursday, Oct. 17-Saturday, Oct. 19. The Fighting Illini are in the middle of a season-long celebration of the Memorial Stadium 100th Anniversary, including hosting Purdue on Oct. 12 before welcoming Michigan for the Rededication Game on Oct. 19.
Symposium: “Ghost Stories at Memorial Stadium” – Red Grange & the Game of the Century
Memorial Stadium 77 Club
Thursday, Oct. 17 at 6:30 p.m. CT
The Univesity of Illinois’ department of recreation, sport, and tourism will host a symposium on Red Grange and his impact to football and Illinois on Thursday, Oct. 17 leading up to the 100th Anniversary of his legendary performance against Michigan. The event will take place in the 77 Club, which dons Grange’s famous #77, inside of Memorial Stadium.
Chris Willis, author of “Red Grange – the Galloping Ghost” (2019), will join the event as a special guest. Willis is one of the top football historians in the nation and the head archivist and producer at NFL Films.
The event is free and open to the public.
Rededication Ceremony
Grange Grove
Friday, Oct. 18 at 11 a.m. CT
Exactly 100 years after Red Grange’s historic performance in the Memorial Stadium Dedication Game against Michigan on Oct. 18, 1924, the University of Illinois will host the Memorial Stadium Rededication on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.
Illinois’ Rededication Ceremony will be free and open to the public inside Grange Grove. After previously being announced as an afternoon start, the event is now scheduled to commence at 11 a.m. CT.
The ceremony will feature a program that honors the many uses of Memorial Stadium over the last century and an unveiling of new historic features around the stadium.
100th Anniversary Gala
Memorial Stadium Colonnades Club
Friday, Oct. 18 at 5:30 p.m. CT
A sold-out 100th-anniversary gala will be hosted inside the Colonnades Club inside Memorial Stadium at 5:30 p.m. CT on Friday, Oct. 18.
The event, themed “The Story of the Stadium”, will feature some of the greatest players to wear the Illinois uniform sharing stories and reliving memories of the past 100 years.
Illinois vs. Michigan
Memorial Stadium
Saturday, Oct. 19 (Time TBA)
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