5 things you don't know about... LANE STADIUM

(sorry I don't have a date for this article...guessing it was 2005 based on #2)

1. More than 200 vendors, 200 ushers,150 police officers and 40 rescue workers work each home football game.

2. Tech police average nine arrests at each evening game. At last years night game against Maryland more than 50 arrests were made. Arrests range from fraudulent tickets to Drunk in public.

3. On average the stadium holds 7 ambulances, resuce workers treat 40 patients and 7 patients are taken to the hospital. Patients are treated for anything from diabetes to alcohol poisoning.

4. It takes around 150 Virginia Tech students to clean Lane Stadium after each home game. Members of Tech’s Corp of Cadets participate in stadium clean-up after every game.

5. For nationaly televised games up to nine cameras are on Whorsham Field: two in the South End Zone, one in the North End Zone, three in the West Stands (one on the 50 yard line and one on each 30 yard line) and three on the sidelines (one stationary, one handheld and one on a rolling cart).