Camp Randall 100 headline Burt Reynolds

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Camp Randall 100: Burt Reynolds

A different type of football film brought The Longest Yard star and former college halfback to Madison

General News

Camp Randall 100: Burt Reynolds

A different type of football film brought The Longest Yard star and former college halfback to Madison

Camp Randall 100 logoThe Camp Randall 100 is an exclusive list celebrating 100 people who have shaped Camp Randall Stadium's history across the realms of sports, music, culture and beyond. A new honoree will be revealed each day over the final 100 days leading up to kickoff of the Wisconsin football team's season opener with Utah State on Friday, Sept. 1. The Camp Randall 100 reveal is part of a year-long celebration of the history of the iconic stadium, which opened in 1917.

MADISON, Wis. — A former halfback at Florida State, actor Burt Reynolds famously tackled the topic of football on screen in the 1974 feature The Longest Yard — he'd eventually do so again in the 2005 reboot of the same name — but 20 years after his turn as a prison yard quarterback, he spent two days in Camp Randall Stadium filming a very different pigskin project.

Learn about Reynolds' 1994 shoot in his Camp Randall 100 profile.

View the complete Camp Randall 100.

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