The 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.
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MADISON, Wis. — The seeds of what would become the remarkable renaissance of the University of Wisconsin's athletic program were planted late in the 1989 football season when chancellor Donna Shalala looked on in embarrassment at a Camp Randall Stadium crowd that — for the first time in modern history — numbered fewer than 30,000.
Soon after, Shalala installed Pat Richter as athletic director and oversaw the hiring of Barry Alvarez as head football coach. The rest is history.
Dive into Shalala's memories of UW in her Camp Randall 100 profile.
