FLORIDA FIELD & GYMNASIUM

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FLORIDA FIELD: Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at Florida Field (better known as The Swamp) is the American football stadium for the University of Florida’s football team, nicknamed the Gators. The stadium and the university are located in Gainesville, Florida. Regularly holding just over 90,000 fans per game, it is the eleventh largest stadium in college football by capacity.

The Florida Gator football team has played all of their home games on Florida Field with very few exceptions since 1930. The most notable example is the annual contest against the Georgia Bulldogs, which has been played in Jacksonville, Florida almost every year since the 1930s, except in 1994 and 1995, when the old Gator Bowl Stadium was demolished and rebuilt as Jacksonville Municipal Stadium for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars. The 1994 Florida-Georgia game was played in Gainesville, and the 1995 contest was played at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia.

FLORIDA GYMNASIUM: Florida Gymnasium is an historic building located on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. It replaced the old 1915 University Gymnasium which then became the Women's Gymnasium. It opened in 1949 as a 7,000 seat multi-purpose arena which was home to the UF Gators basketball teams until the Stephen C. O'Connell Center opened in 1980. During this time, the Florida Gym was also known as Alligator Alley.

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