Watching the Minnesota Golden Gopher game against USC the shadows are indicated the endzones are East and West Side of the playing field.
Looking at the wiki entry for the TCF Bank stadium, it says:
To my knowledge, all major stadiums, when specifically designed for Football, have the end zones on the North and South side of the field.
Anyone know of any other stadium, specifically designed for Football, with the endzones on the East and West?
It only holds 11,000 and it was built in 1930, but Houck Stadium, at Sotheast Missouri State University, has always had an east/west orientation.
Penn State’s Beaver Stadium is on a northwest/southeast orientation.
Granted, they seem the exceptons, though.
Oklahoma State’s Boone Pickens Stadium - Stillwater, Oklahoma
Cleveland Browns Stadium (and Cleveland Stadium before it) is laid out on line running from south west to north east, basically at a 45 degree angle from the usual north-south configuration. This led to a tense moment a a coach’s press conference once when the Browns’ coach Butch Davis said that the team needed runners who ran “north south” and a smart aleck reporter pointed out that a back running north-south would go out of bounds.
And what a lovely stadium it is! Especially now that the newly filled in West End Zone blocks the late afternoon sun.
Do the Browns share a stadium with the Indians?
IMO, SW to NE is the worst configuration for a football field, particularly as the days get shorter in October and November and the sun gets lower in the sky.
PSU’s configuration at SE to NW makes much more sense.
Not any more. The old Municipal Stadium was home to both of them, but then the Indians moved to Jacobs Field, the Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens, and the stadium was torn down and rebuilt for the Browns’ revival. It’s possible that they deliberately made the new stadium in the same orientation as the old one, as part of the effort at appeasing the fans that it’s the same stadium.
I’m not entirely sure that the old Municipal Stadium was built either for football or baseball. I think it’s more likely that, like the Los Angeles Coliseum (which was also adapted for both baseball and football) and Soldier’s Field in Chicago, the city fathers just wanted a really big stadium that could be used for a lot of different things. Also, like Soldier’s Field, it’s more aesthetically pleasing to run the long axis along the lake, rather than at an angle to it.
Sadly, the sun shining in players’ eyes isn’t much of problem in Cleveland in November. 
University of Washington’s Husky Stadium is basically laid out east-west, with a slight northwest to southeast tilt. It is famously open on the west end so you can see Lake Washington and the mountains in the distance.
Wouldn’t the mountains be to the east? :dubious:
D’oh!
At the time it was built, Cleveland was making a bid for the Olympics. Needless to say, it wasn’t successful.
That Olympic bid thing isn’t true. The 1932 games had been awarded to LA before ground was broken for Cleveland Stadium. wikipedia link.
Clemson Stadium is in a mostly East-West configuration.