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LEXINGTON, Ky. – As the University of Kentucky board of trustees debated a resolution Tuesday to change the name of the school’s football stadium to Kroger Field, faculty trustee Lee Blonder read from the minutes of the board’s April 1973 meeting.
Sitting at the end of a long table opposite UK President Eli Capilouto, Blonder reminded board members the football stadium had been originally named Commonwealth Stadium because athletics board members felt the name “would recognize the fact that the stadium actually belonged to the commonwealth and was merely leased to the University of Kentucky and, further, that it belonged to all the people.