Lane Stadium - Aged to Perfection

October 2, 2015On this date 50 years ago, Virginia Tech played its first football game at its current home

It is the first building that students coming to Virginia Tech’s campus for the first time, or those returning to campus to continue their studies, see. They drive along U.S. 460, an asphalt path that meanders through a pastoral setting, and the building rises up, roughly a mile or so in the distance.

The highway leads to a stoplight, and students, or perhaps those riding with their parents, take a right onto Southgate Drive, one of the main arteries into Tech’s campus. The building towers over everything else, commanding one’s attention, and those seeing it for the first time usually…