Arizona Wildcats athletic director Dave Heeke calls himself a traditionalist.
As he guided the media on a tour of Arizona Stadium on Friday, he stopped to marvel at some of the archaic details that are still baked into the nearly-100-year-old venue.
“This structure, and these first 30 rows, still remains the original construction of the stadium, the 1928, 29 structure,” he said, patting the stone foundation of the west-side grandstands. “So a lot of history, a lot of tradition here.
“Some of the old tie-up stations are still existing here from the early 1920s, 1930s, where you’d actually tie up a horse or you’d tie up your carriage as you came to a game, which is pretty interesting.