SUN BOWL STADIUM
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EL PASO, TX
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Over the years, many people
have come to know the Sun Bowl as the annual site of the Sun Bowl Game, taking the same name as the facility,
the Sun Bowl. However, the Sun Bowl is also the home of the Texas El
Paso Miners. In 1935, the first Sun Bowl game was played at Kidd
Field, as a
fundraising effort, that led to the annual Sun
Bowl game each year.
The Sun Bowl Association was found
in order to construct a stadium for this annual game and other football games. It took
several decades for the actual Sun Bowl Stadium to be built. By the early 1960s support grew and the
Sun Bowl was finally constructed near Kidd Field. The 30,000 seat stadium
opened on September 21, 1963 when UTEP beat North Texas State.
The first Sun Bowl Game was played at the stadium on December 31, 1963
between Oregon and SMU. Over the past five decades the Sun Bowl has
been expanded once, before the 1982 season. It was expanded to seat nearly 51,000, as
seats were added on the east side of the stadium. In 2001, the seating
capacity was reduced slightly as some seats were removed for soccer.
Although it continues to be home of the annual Sun Bowl game, the
facility is the home of the Texas El Paso Miners football team each
Fall.
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2015 UTEP
MINERS SCHEDULE
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-9/5 - at Arkansas
-9/12 - at Texas Tech
-9/19 - at New Mexico State
-9/26 - INCARNATE
-10/3 - UTSA
-10/10 - at FIU |
-10/24 - FLORIDA ATLANTIC
-10/31 - at Southern Miss
-11/7 - RICE
-11/14 - at Old Dominion
-11/21 - LOUISIANA TECH
-11/28 -
at North Texas |
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MAP & DIRECTIONS TO
THE STADIUM
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Address: Sun Bowl Drive, El
Paso, TX 79968
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