Keyworth Stadium exterior
Keyworth Stadium exterior
Description
Keyworth Stadium was opened in 1936 and was dedicated by FDR himself. After many years of use by Hamtramck High School, in 2016 the newly-formed Detroit City Football Club secured funding to renovate the stadium for soccer matches.
From the Detroit News: “Roosevelt, a few weeks shy of his landslide re-election, was on his way to a ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate the new Keyworth Stadium. It was one of the first Work Projects Administration projects in Michigan, a promise in the midst of the Great Depression of better days ahead, and FDR was here to trumpet its arrival, telling the crowd that night ‘this stadium is one of the things that will last for many years.'”
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Keyworth Stadium
Keyworth Stadium
Keyworth Stadium
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Keyworth Stadium
Keyworth Stadium
Keyworth Stadium
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Keyworth Stadium plaque
Keyworth Stadium plaque
Keyworth Stadium plaque
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Keyworth Stadium bleacher detail
Keyworth Stadium bleacher detail
Keyworth Stadium bleacher detail
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Keyworth Stadium
Source notes
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/columnists/john-niyo/2015/12/01/detroit-city-fc-spearheads-stadium-renovation/76593970/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyworth_Stadium https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/columnists/john-niyo/2015/12/01/detroit-city-fc-spearheads-stadium-renovation/76593970/ https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15188 https://detroit1701.org/Keyworth%20Stadium.html
Project originally submitted by Alan Jacobson and John Stehlin on August 30, 2017.
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Does anyone know what happened to the picture of FDR that used to hang in the back of the Polonia restaurant?
There is a bust in the Hamtramck High School library with “Mr. Keyworth” at the bottom. Does anyone know who Mr. Keyworth was and why the stadium was named after him?