Labels:bulletin board | daily | earth | gazette | person | poster | reckoner | sky | windowpane OCR: Bryant-Denny Stadium Capacity: 83.000+ On October 1929 Gov Bibb Graves officially the then President George Denny The first game was played in the stadiun years ago AS the Crimson Tide defeated Mississip pi on Homecoming day The seating capacity 12 000 af time Seven vears after the birth of he stadium, an additional 6000 seats were added the east side and soon after that, 6000 more were added the west side to bring the capacity slightly over ,000. After World War Coach Frank Thomas. his 15th season with the Crimson Tide watched Denny Stadium grow again with additional bleachers put in both end zones bring the capacity to 1,000 When Paul Bryant. former player under Coach Frank took over head coach. additional 000 seats were constructed with press box and levator bring capacity to 60 000 196 ...