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It is primarily used for football and soccer, and is the home field of the University of Connecticut Huskies (UConn). In 2010, it was home to the Hartford Colonials of the United Football League. The stadium, which opened in 2003, was the first stadium used primarily by an NCAA FBS (formerly Division I-A) team to open in the 21st century.
On October 13, 2014 it was announced the former UConn men’s soccer student-athlete Tony Rizza ’87 (BUS) has pledged a total of $8 million to transform the soccer complex and build a new soccer stadium on the Storrs campus. [15] The new facility will be built on the site of the current Joseph J. Morrone Stadium and will bear the same name.
Dillon Stadium was built in 1935. Formerly named Municipal Stadium, it was renamed in 1956 after James H. Dillon, the City's recreation director. [9] Dillon Stadium was the home of two minor league football teams in the 1960s and 70s: the Hartford Charter Oaks of the Atlantic Coast Football League and Continental Football League, owned by the Brewer family, and the Hartford Knights, also of ...
It also hosts the Connecticut Crushers of the National Women's Football Association. The stadium was also home to the Connecticut Wolves team of the United Soccer Leagues before that team folded in 2002. The stadium is an 8-lane oval track around a regulation-size football field. The track was dedicated to coach Irving S. Black in April 1992.
Seminole Soccer Complex: 2,000 Tallahassee: Florida: Florida State Seminoles: Grass 1999 Shawnee Mission District Stadium: 6,150: Overland Park: Kansas: Formerly FC Kansas City: Turf: 2005: Site of the first NWSL Game: Shea Stadium: 3,800 Peoria: Illinois: Bradley Braves. Peoria City. Grass 1970 Built as a baseball stadium, converted into a ...
The New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL) won just one of the dozen home games they played in New Haven in the 1973 and 1974 seasons. (With the exception of the games played with replacement teams during the 1987 NFL strike and the COVID-19 -disrupted 2020 season , the attendance at the final game at the Yale Bowl is the ...
One team is the Stanislaus District’s biggest riser this season after a tough nonleague slate and a key Week 5 win.
The final game of the minor league Atlantic Coast Football League was held at the stadium, when the New England Colonials defeated the Bridgeport Jets by 41–17 in the ACFL championship game. A total of 10,176 fans attended the contest on November 23, 1973—ten years and a day after President Kennedy died, in a stadium named after him.