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Spartan Stadium opened in 1923 in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It is primarily used for football, and is the home field of the Michigan... State University Spartans. After the addition of luxury boxes and club seating in 2004–2005, the capacity of the stadium grew from 72,027 to 75,005—though it has held more than 80,000 fans—making it the Big Ten's sixth largest stadium. Its atmosphere has been described by ESPN's Lee Corso as a that of a "snake pit." In the early 1920s school officials decided to construct a new stadium to replace Old College Field. The resulting stadium--the lower half of the current stadium--was ready in the fall of 1923 with a capacity of 14,000. Over the years the stadium grew. In 1935 the seating capacity increased to 26,000 and the facility was dedicated as Macklin Field. John Macklin, football coach from 1911 to 1915, put Michigan State football on the map with a 29–5 record over five seasons with victories over big name programs such as Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State and Wisconsin.
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Augie Blunt was an American film and television actor. Blunt was born Augustine Durell Blunt in Monroe, Michigan, located south of Detroit,... Michigan; his parents were William Blunt and Essie C. Wilson-Blunt. He and his parents lived Monroe. After the military Augie moved to Los Angeles, California where he was a musician and a teacher for LAUSD before deciding to become an actor, and so he did by appearing in films and television shows. His son Erin Blunt was too a child actor in Car Wash and Bad News Bears. Blunt married Dolores Scott on February 2, 1962, in Las Vegas, Nevada, together they had 3 children, , Jean Adele Scott- Blunt , Carla Nicole Scott- Blunt , Erin Durell Blunt Augie died on May 2, 1999, in Los Angeles, California, he was 69 years old at the time of his death.
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Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan is the 8th most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area. Its capital is Lansing, and the largest city is Detroit. Michigan has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the world,... being bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair. Michigan is one of the leading U.S. states for recreational boating. The state has 64,980 inland lakes and ponds. A person in the state is never more than six miles from a natural water source or more than 85 miles from a Great Lakes shoreline. It is the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River. Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula, to which the name Michigan was originally applied, is often noted to be shaped like a mitten.
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