The pledge from David Booth, a KU alumnus, was one of the biggest single donations in the history of college athletics. The money is intended to help build a Gateway District next to the new Kansas Memorial Stadium.

The founder of a large investment firm pledged $300 million to the University of Kansas in what was described as the largest gift in the university’s history and touted as one of the biggest single donations in the history of college athletics.

David Booth, the Austin, Texas, founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors, was responsible for a $50 million donation in 2017 to kick off renovation at what became David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. In 2010, he presented KU with basketball inventor James Naismith’s original 1891 copy of the 13 basic rules of the game. The document is in B

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