Sun Devil Stadium

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Sun Devil Stadium, Frank Kush Field
Sun Devil Stadium, The Valley of the Sun
Location	Tempe, Arizona
Broke ground	1958
Opened	1958
Owner	Arizona State University
Operator	Arizona State University
Surface	Bermuda Grass
Construction cost	$1 million
Former names
Sun Devil Stadium (1958-1996)
Tenants
Arizona State Sun Devils (NCAA) (1958-Present) Fiesta Bowl (NCAA) (1971-2006) Insight Bowl (NCAA) (2006-) Arizona Cardinals (NFL) (1988-2005) Arizona Wranglers (USFL) (1983-1984) Arizona Outlaws (USFL) (1985)
Capacity
73,379 (expandable to 76,000)

Sun Devil Stadium, Frank Kush Field is located on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe. It is home to the Arizona State Sun Devils college football team and was the home of the NFL's Arizona Cardinals from 1988 to 2005.

Built in 1958, the stadium now seats 73,379. The original seating capacity was 30,000 in 1958. The first addition in 1976 raised capacity to 57,722. Seating was added to the south end of the stadium, along with press and sky boxes. A year later, in 1977, the upper tier was completed to bring seating to 70,491. In 1988, 1,700 more seats were added to bring the facility to the current capacity. During that time the Carson Student Athlete Center was added to the south end. The building is the home of the ASU Athletic Department. On September 21, 1996, the playing surface was named in honor of former ASU football coaching great Frank Kush, and the name of the stadium was changed from Sun Devil Stadium to Sun Devil Stadium, Frank Kush Field.

The first game to be played at the stadium was on October 4, 1958. Arizona State defeated West Texas State 16-13. Sun Devil Stadium hosted college football's Fiesta Bowl from 1971 to 2006. The largest crowd ever seated for a college football game at the stadium was 74,963 for an Arizona State-California-Berkeley college football game won by the Sun Devils, 35-7 on November 9, 1996.

This college football facility became an NFL stadium in 1988, when the St. Louis Football Cardinals moved to Arizona and became the Phoenix Cardinals (renamed Arizona Cardinals in 1994). The stadium hosted Super Bowl XXX in 1996 as the Dallas Cowboys won their fifth Vince Lombardi Trophy, defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17 in front of the all-time stadium record of 76,347 spectators.

The first pro game played in the stadium was a pre-season game between the New York Jets and the Minnesota Vikings in 1975.

In 2006, the Cardinals moved from Sun Devil Stadium to University of Phoenix Stadium in another Phoenix suburb, Glendale. The new stadium will also host the Fiesta Bowl, and the first stand-alone Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game in 2007 as well as Super Bowl XLII in 2008. ASU continues to use Sun Devil Stadium, which will now host the Insight Bowl, moving from Chase Field, the home field of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

[edit] External links

• Arizona State Sun Devils - Sun Devil Stadium, Frank Kush Field (official site)

• Sun Devil Stadium Page at Arizona's S&E News

Preceded by none

Home of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl 1971–2005

Succeeded by University of Phoenix Stadium 2006–

Preceded by Busch Stadium 1966–1987

Home of the Arizona Cardinals 1988–2005

Succeeded by University of Phoenix Stadium 2006–

Preceded by Chase Field 2000-2005

Home of the Insight Bowl 2006-present

Succeeded by incumbent

Coordinates: 33°25′35.1″N, 111°55′57.2″W

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Football Stadiums of the Pacific Ten Conference
Arizona Stadium (Arizona) • Autzen Stadium (Oregon) • Husky Stadium (Washington) • Martin Stadium (Washington State) • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Southern California) • California Memorial Stadium (California) • Reser Stadium (Oregon State) • Rose Bowl (UCLA) • Stanford Stadium (Stanford) • Sun Devil Stadium (Arizona State)

Current NCAA Division I-A college football bowl game stadiums

Alamodome (Alamo) • Aloha Stadium (Hawaiʻi, Hula) • Amon G. Carter Stadium (Armed Forces) • AT&T Park (Emerald) • Bank of America Stadium (Meineke) • Bronco Stadium (MPC Computers) • Cotton Bowl (Cotton) • Dolphin Stadium (Orange) • Florida Citrus Bowl (Champs Sports, Capital One) • Ford Field (Motor City) • Galena Park ISD Stadium (North-South Classic) • Georgia Dome (Chick-fil-A) • Independence Stadium (Independence) • Jacksonville Municipal Stadium (Gator)• LP Field (Music City) • Ladd Peebles Stadium (GMAC, Senior) • Legion Field (Papajohns.com) • Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium (Liberty) • Louisiana Superdome (New Orleans, Sugar) • Qualcomm Stadium (Poinsettia, Holiday) • Raymond James Stadium (Outback) • Reliant Stadium (Texas, East-West Shrine) • Rogers Centre (International) • Rose Bowl (Rose) • Sam Boyd Stadium (Las Vegas, All-American) • Sun Bowl Stadium (Sun, Texas v. Nation) • Sun Devil Stadium (Insight) • University Stadium (New Mexico) • University of Phoenix Stadium (Fiesta, BCS Nat'l Champ.)