Sun Bowl Stadium

Sun Bowl Stadium

Infobox_Stadium
stadium_name = The Sun Bowl
nickname =


location = Sun Bowl Dr
El Paso, TX 79968
broke_ground = 1963
opened = September 21, 1963
closed =
demolished =
owner = University of Texas El Paso
operator = University of Texas El Paso
surface = AstroPlay
construction_cost = $275,000 (approximate, original)
architect =
former_names =
tenants = UTEP (football) (1963-present)
Brut Sun Bowl Game (1963-Present)
El Paso Patriots (1989-2001)
Texas vs. The Nation Game (2007-present)
seating_capacity = 51,500

The Sun Bowl is an outdoor football stadium on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso. It is home to the UTEP Miners of Conference USA (formerly of the WAC), and the late December college football bowl game, The Brut Sun Bowl. The stadium was opened in 1963 and has a current seating capacity of 51,500.

The land on which the stadium sits was originally donated by the university to the city of El Paso, who built the stadium for the school and the Sun Bowl game. Both had previously used Kidd Field, the school's current track and field stadium, which only seats 15,000. The city had realized that the game could not expand its audience or the list of teams that it could invite without a bigger stadium, so the Sun Bowl was built in a natural bowl lying to the west of the old stadium. The AstroPlay playing field runs nearly north–south (tilted about 10 degrees NW-SE) and is at an elevation of 3910 feet (1191 m) above sea level. [http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=11&Z=13&X=894&Y=8789&W=3&qs=%7cEl+Paso%7cTX%7c]

The stadium, named for the game it hosts, was opened in September 1963 with a Texas Western win over North Texas State. The opening play was a 54-yard touchdown run by Larry Durham of the Miners.

It originally sat 30,000, with only the sideline grandstands. The current press box was added in 1969, and the stadium reached the current capacity in 1982 with the addition of the north endzone stands and the expansion of the east stands (The south endzone is still vacant, with the ground of the bowl covered with the school's logos.) The school retook control of the land and stadium in 2001.

The stadium holds the unusual distinction of being the closest major American stadium to a foreign country, sitting less than half a mile from the Rio Grande River and the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez.

For a short time before moving to Dudley Field, it was the home to PDL franchise, the El Paso Patriots. They now play at Patriot Stadium.

On February 2nd, 2007, the stadium hosted the first ever Texas vs. The Nation all star college football game. The Nation team defeated the Texas team by a score of 24-20.

Photos

External links

* [http://utepathletics.cstv.com/facilities/sun-bowl.html UTEP Athletics] – Sun Bowl Stadium
* [http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=11&Z=13&X=894&Y=8789&W=3&qs=%7cEl+Paso%7cTX%7c Terraserver.microsoft.com] – satellite photo (& USGS topo map) of UTEP campus

succession box
title = Home of the Sun Bowl
years = 1963 – present
before = Kidd Field
after = Current
succession box
title = Home of the UTEP Miners
years = 1963 – present
before = Kidd Field
after = Current


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