Profiles
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Running home
Director of Athletics Josh Whitman (GIES ’01, LAW ’08) answers the Proust Questionnaire
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Sideline storyteller
From her first interview on the Illinois campus to interviewing the Bears’ quarterback, Caleb Williams, Cassie Carlson’s preparation and belief in herself have driven her success.
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Mrs. Smith and the Mob
When a Chicago mobster was ready to talk, FBI agent Elaine Corbitt Smith (LAS ’67) was ready to listen.
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Memorial Stadium: 100 Years
Memorial Stadium holds a century full of stories—many of which happened off the field. Go behind the scenes of George Huff and Robert Zuppke’s fundraising tour, and meet Mr. and Mrs. Stadium, the real-life student couple who oversaw student fundraising.
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The stadium’s first family
Meet the Crackels, the family who lived in the stadium for its first thirteen years.
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“Fight, Illini!”
In 1921, a Daily Illini songwriting contest helped raise funds to build Memorial Stadium. For the first time in one hundred years, the sounds of the winning song will fill the stadium again.
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Music man
Dr. Claudius Conrad, associate dean for research and innovation at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, answers the Proust Questionnaire.
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Sentinels of the stadium
To the descendants of Private Dean Memmen, a casualty of World War I, Memorial Stadium has always been about more than just football.
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Bear hunting
Illinois Athletics historian Kent Brown (MEDIA ’87, AHS ’89) remembers when the Chicago Bears practiced at Memorial Stadium on the way to Super Bowl XX.