La Playa Stadium is the on campus stadium for

Santa Barbara City College Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) is a public community college in Santa Barbara, California. It opened in 1909 and is located on a campus. History Santa Barbara City College was established by the Santa Barbara High School District in 1909, ma ...

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, United States. The serves as the home venue for the Santa Barbara City College Vaqueros football, soccer and track and field teams. The stadium also serves as the venue for the college graduation ceremonies. The stands for the stadium are built into the side of a coastal bluff below the college campus. With no stands on the opposite side, it provides for a clear view of

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, the Santa Barbara harbor and the

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portion of the Pacific Ocean across the street. Because of its proximity to the ocean, the stadium is under the purvue of the

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. The stadium was also used as the football home stadium for the

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from the days when it was known as Santa Barbara State College starting with the 1938 football season and served that role until the 1965 season. UCSB played their last game in the stadium against the Santa Clara University Broncos on October 30, 1965. The home venue was displaced by the on campus Campus Stadium, which was later re-named

Harder Stadium Harder Stadium is a 17,000-seat, outdoor multi-purpose stadium on the west coast of the United States, on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California. It serves as the on-campus soccer stadium for b ...

. La Playa Stadium is the home of the Santa Barbara Easter Relays, a multi-day

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carnival. It is the site where

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cleared the first 16 foot pole vault outdoors, during that meet, March 31, 1962. See the . It is also where

Dallas Long Dallas Crutcher Long (born June 13, 1940) is a retired American track and field athlete, who mostly competed in the shot put. Between 1959 and 1964 he set six official and five unofficial world records. His first was at the 1959 Santa Barbara ...

set his first of seven world records in the shot put. It was the site of the women's division of the 1967

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Barbara Ferrell Barbara Ann Ferrell, Mrs. Edmonson (born July 28, 1947, Hattiesburg, Mississippi) is an American former track and field athlete who competed mainly in the 100-metre dash. She was the U.S. national champion in that event in 1967 and 1969 and i ...

equalled the world record in the 100 meters; 11.1 (+0.3), at that championship, which would last until

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broke it in the Olympic final, at altitude in

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