I agree with most of the answers, but if you want to see a actual picture taken on the 28th April 1923 at the first ever Football Game then go to worldstadia.com and click on the fifth photo. The amount of people there is amazing, it`s reported to be over 200,000.
2007-03-13 00:55:44
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answered by madge 51 6
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Wembley Stadium was a football stadium located in Wembley, London, England.
First known as the Empire Stadium, the original stadium was built for the British Empire Exhibition of 1924, at a cost of £750,000, on the former site of Watkins' Tower. Sir John Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton were the architects and Sir Owen Williams was the Head Engineer. Originally intended to be demolished at the end of the Exhibition, it was saved at the suggestion of Sir James Stevenson, a Scot who was chairman of the organising committee for the Empire Exhibition.
The stadium's distinctive Twin Towers became its trademark. Also well known were the thirty nine steps needed to be climbed to reach the Royal box and collect a trophy (and winners'/losers' medals). Wembley was the first pitch to be referred to as "Hallowed Turf", with many stadia around the world borrowing this phrase.
The stadium's first turf was cut by King George V and it was first opened to the public on 28 April 1923. In 1934 the Empire Pool was built. The Wembley Stadium Collection is held by the National Football Museum.
The stadium closed in October 2000 and was demolished in late 2002 for redevelopment
2007-03-11 10:41:39
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answered by Anonymous
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I believe, that the OLD Wembley Stadium, - famed "TWIN TOWERS" and all, - was built in the early 1920's, - staging its FIRST F.A. Cup Final, in 1923, - but, I COULD be wrong!
2007-03-11 10:41:58
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answered by Spike 6
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properly, I stand corrected in this entire situation. i presumed that when NFL Europa flopped, it meant Europeans weretn't drawn to our activity. yet seeing 80 one,000 human beings at Wembley getting excited approximately an American soccer activity, i think of possibly they have been in basic terms hungry to make certain some suited-point action by skill of our maximum suitable gamers. i think of back to the Churchill Cup in rugby this summer season. the u . s . a . rubgy team takes section in this adventure each twelve months, and a few eu communities often deliver over some gamers to take part interior the contest. yet they do no longer deliver their maximum suitable gamers. England sent what's certainly its 2nd-string unit over right here. I comprehend that if that they had sent their A team, the u . s . a . rugby team might are transforming into annihilated, regardless of the incontrovertible fact that it additionally might have generated greater activity interior the adventure. the eu champs, Munster, did a similar element for a adventure later interior the summertime -- they sent over their scrubs to play against us. that's what we've been doing in NFL Europa. that's no ask your self human beings weren't involved. i'm exicted approximately this. i like American soccer, and that i might love for different areas of the international to get excited approximately it. possibly all we ever needed to do became into deliver over our maximum suitable gamers to positioned on a great activity. and that they valuable did that on Sunday. there is not any reason it may no longer seize on, as quickly as human beings comprehend what's taking place interior the activity. (powerful Ra, there are various stops with the aid of fact the performs are scripted, and it takes time to set them up.) it is not all that diverse from rugby league -- in basic terms with pads and forward passes.
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answered by valaria 4
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April 23rd 1924
2007-03-11 10:49:54
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answered by Quizard 7
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1924
2007-03-11 10:39:18
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answered by Del Piero 10 7
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I'm not sure but I know the first FA Cup Final to be played there was in 1923, it was nicknamed the White Horse final and Bolton Wanderers beat West Ham.
2007-03-11 11:13:36
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answered by Anonymous
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1923
2007-03-12 23:52:41
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answered by watford05 3
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http://www.wembleystadium.com/GloriousPast/historyIntroduction/
Check out the history here.
2007-03-11 10:39:02
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answered by richard_beckham2001 7
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