Autostade

Built in 1966, The Autostade (officially known in English as the Automotive Stadium, although this name was not much found in common usage) was a Canadian football stadium that formerly stood at the north-west corner of the Cit? du Havre sector of the Expo 67 site. It was the home of the Montreal Alouettes from 1968-1976, except for a brief period in 1972 when the team returned to its previous home, Molson Stadium.

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Autostade was built in preparation for the 1967 World's Fair, Expo 67 as a venue for use in several events including the World Music Festival, the Rodeo Show, and others. It was designed by architects Victor Prus and Maurice Desnoyers. With a seating capacity of 33,172 people, the stadium is best remembered for its odd shape: To allow the stadium to be dismantled and re-erected on a new site if required, the architects employed a segmental structural system comprising 19 independent but linked pre-cast concrete grandstands, each 40 seats wide, arranged around the central field.

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Canadian football: Canadian football is a sport in which two teams of twelve players each compete for territorial control of a field of play 110 yards (100.58 metres) long and 65 yards (59.43 metres) wide, with end zones 20 yards (18.29 metres) deep. At each goal line is a set of forty-foot (12.2 metre) high goalposts...