Largest crowd ever for a U.S. stadium sports event?

[willisraverchk77]

What's the largest crowd ever for a regular stadium sporting event in the U.S.? Not counting motorsports or horse racing-type events. Just a regular stadium.

???

[the_Bored]

Probably a college football game at Michigan Stadium, which has a capacity of 111,501.

[Lafferty Daniel]

The largest crowd at a baseball game. 95,000+ at the LA Coliseum

[TonyK]

3/28/08: 115,300 Bos vs LA MLB game at the LA Coliseum

1956: 114,000 US Servicemen vs Australia National Team
at the '56 Melbourne Olympics

[JeepingBaseball]

Soldiers Field in Chicago and all time college football attendance record was set on November 16, 1929 when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish beat the USC Trojans 13-12 in front of 112,912 fans.

[Philtration]

Unofficially, the NCAA estimates that crowds of 120,000 people watched games involving Notre Dame and USC in 1927 and Notre Dame and Navy in 1928 at Soldier Field in Chicago.
A confirmed 112,912 fans watched Notre Dame defeat USC at Soldier Field in 1929, which beats Michigan's record of the current era.
They once packed 260,000 people in there for something called the Catholic Church's Marian Year Tribute in 1954.

[Manhattan]

Largest crown ever for a U.S. stadium sports event?

3/28/08: 115,300 Bos vs LA MLB game at the LA Coliseum

1956: 114,000 US Servicemen vs Australia National Team
at the '56 Melbourne Olympics

I watched the game on TV. The Boston Red Sox versus the Los Angeles Dodgers at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 3/28/08.

[bleacherbum73]

I watched the game on TV. The Boston Red Sox versus the Los Angeles Dodgers at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 3/28/08.

:applaud:

[mandrake]

If you count boxing, I think crowds of 140,000 saw Dempsey fight in Philadelpia's Muncipal (JFK) Stadium and maybe even Soldiers Field in Chicago.

[Chevy114]

Does the silverdome still hold the record for the largest indoor spors event with wwf's wrestlemania 3? I think it was around 90,000. I think Ford field may have beaten that record though.

[Philtration]

Does the silverdome still hold the record for the largest indoor spors event with wwf's wrestlemania 3? I think it was around 90,000. I think Ford field may have beaten that record though.

Wrestlemania is not a sport.

Bad acting? Yes
Rehearsed stunts? Yes
Some meathead yapping into a microphone? Yes
Scripted entertainment? Yes
But it is not a sport.

[Captain Cold Nose]

Wrestlemania is not a sport.

Bad acting? Yes
Rehearsed stunts? Yes
Some meathead yapping into a microphone? Yes
Scripted entertainment? Yes
But it is not a sport.

Don't forget that for tax purposes it stopped classifying itself as a sport. But they are athletes, and the entertainment is based upon sport.

[hellborn]

Wrestlemania is not a sport.

Bad acting? Yes
Rehearsed stunts? Yes
Some meathead yapping into a microphone? Yes
Scripted entertainment? Yes
But it is not a sport.

Couldn't they pay Alexander Karelin $1,000,000 or so to come over from Russia and throw some of those guys around?
I'd pay good money to see that.
Heck, give him a rematch with Rulon Gardner while he's in town.

[Captain Cold Nose]

Couldn't they pay Alexander Karelin $1,000,000 or so to come over from Russia and throw some of those guys around?
I'd pay good money to see that.
Heck, give him a rematch with Rulon Gardner while he's in town.

I'm sure they would if they could. Gardner was approached, he wasn't interested. But wrestling ability only goes so far when you have the personality of a tree stump and move like a turtle. I've only seen Karelin in the Olympics, so I have honestly have no idea how he would do in other important areas of rasslin'.

I do believe a Dempsey fight hold the U.S. record. An Oscar De La Hoya fight in Mexico drew about 150,000, I believe.

[Philtration]

The 1974 Kentucky Derby had a crowd of 163,628.

Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro had a crowd of 199,854 for the 1950 World Cup Final to see Brazil vs. Ururguay

A crowd of 136,274 saw Julio Cesar Chavez fight Greg Haugen in Mexico's Azteca Stadium in 1993