By Jerry Kutz

Winter, 2019

Charles Williams, the acclaimed British novelist, penned the phrase, "In order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been."

As we move forward into the future of FSU Athletics, we thought it would be useful for our Seminole Booster members and fans to look back at where your Athletics program and Seminole Boosters have been and where our leaders and supporters have positioned us to go.

Florida State University was founded in 1851 and 100 years later Seminole Boosters was founded with the intention of funding Florida State Athletics operations and facilities. In the early years, the focus was on Doak Campbell Stadium which was built in 1951 (capacity 25,000) and exapanded to 45,000 in 1964, in time to host the University of Florida, and expanded once again in 1978 to 60,147.

In this and subsequent issues of the Unconquered Magazine, Seminole Boosters will provide a timeline of the significant projects in FSU's athletics history. The timeline will be a walk down memory lane for some of our members, a course in Seminole history for others, and an insightful journey for all as we prepare for a new and exciting era ahead.

In this issue of the Unconquered Magazine, we will focus on significant developments from 1985 until 2003. We will present projects built from 2004 until today in future issues of the Unconquered Magazine.

1976 Bobby Bowden hired
1978 Doak Campbell Stadium is expanded to 47,413 capacity
1985 Scholarship Endowment begins
1990 Endowment reaches $650,000
1992 FSU joins ACC
1993 National Football Championship
1994 Doak Campbell expanded to 75,000
1995 Endowment reaches $9.9 million
1995 Varsity Women's Soccer added
1996 University Center Club founded
1997 Doak Campbell Stadium capacity 80,000
1999 Football Wire-to-Wire National Champions
2000 Dynasty Campaign announced to the public
2000 Endowed Scholarships - $21,010,763
2001 Doak Campbell Stadium capacity 82,000
2003 Maggie Allesee's Strum Plaza	The Sportsmanship Statue stands in Strum Plaza