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Legion Field is an outdoor stadium in ... Legion Field has hosted various high school football games throughout its history. From 1996 until 2008, Legion Field was ...
Auburn played its last home game at Legion Field, outside of the Iron Bowl, in 1978 against Tennessee. [19] [20] Between 1969 and 1987, Auburn made additions to Jordan-Hare Stadium until it eclipsed Legion Field in size. Auburn was in the process of expanding Jordan-Hare Stadium from 72,169 seats to 85,214 for the 1987 season, almost 10,000 ...
The Houma Buccaneers and Houma Indians reportedly played minor league home games at American Legion Park in 1940 and from 1946 to 1952. The ballpark had a capacity of 3,000 in 1940, 3,800 in 1950 and expanded to 4,500 in 1952. American Legion Park had a wooden grandstand and was destroyed by fire in 1956.
William L. Grayson Stadium is a stadium in Savannah, Georgia.It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Savannah Bananas, an exhibition baseball team. It was the part-time home of the Savannah State University college baseball team from 2009 to 2011.
Well into the 1980s, Legion Field seated almost 20,000 more people than Bryant-Denny. As such, until the late 1990s, Legion Field hosted most of Alabama's important home games. The most notable of these games was the Iron Bowl with rival Auburn. Legion Field was considered a neutral site from 1948 through 1987. When the Iron Bowl became a home ...
UAB football began with the play of an organized club football team in 1989. [5] After two years competing as a club football team, on March 13, 1991, UAB President Charles McCallum and athletic director Gene Bartow announced that the university would compete in football as an NCAA Division III team beginning in the fall of 1991, with Jim Hilyer serving as the first head coach.
Protective Stadium is a football stadium owned and operated by the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Authority in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. [2] [3] Since its opening in 2021, the stadium has been named for Protective Life, a financial service holding company based in Birmingham, which pays $1 million per year as part of a 15-year naming rights deal. [4]
On January 25, 2022, the city of Birmingham announced that the league headquarters would be in Birmingham, and all games of the 2022 USFL season would be played at Protective Stadium and Legion Field. The first game was played on April 16, 2022, between the Birmingham Stallions and the New Jersey Generals at Protective Stadium.