Edwards Stadium

Famous events took place at Cal's track & field and soccer venue

Transcript

00:00 The movie Oppenheimer has been getting a lot of publicity.

00:04 That one and the other movie, Barbie, are getting a lot of publicity.

00:08 And part of the Oppenheimer movie was shot at Cal's famed Edwards Stadium.

00:14 Now, I assume that Edwards Stadium will be in the film.

00:18 It's in the trailer.

00:20 There are times when things that appear in the trailer don't actually appear in the movie

00:25 and get left on the cutting room floor.

00:28 But seldom that happens.

00:30 I'm assuming since it's in the trailer that it's going to be there.

00:33 It might be just like a two-second, three-second blurb of Oppenheimer

00:39 and a couple of his buddies walking across the field at Edwards Stadium

00:44 to presumably to do their work.

00:46 I don't think they're walking across the stadium to run a 400-meter hurdles race

00:52 or something like that.

00:54 They're not ready to get in there and start playing a soccer match either.

00:58 But there's been a lot of historic stuff at Edwards Stadium.

01:02 As noted in the story, the Jim Ryan's mile record was set there.

01:07 That was when it was a cinder track at Edwards Stadium.

01:11 He beat the record of Michael Jaycee, and he beat it by--

01:14 I can't remember how much, but it was more than a second.

01:17 And it was an amazing time.

01:19 He was only 19 years old.

01:21 Ryan never did win a gold medal in the Olympics,

01:24 but he was considered the best miler in the world for a while there.

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