Cotton Bowl (stadium)

  • Football World Cup 1994
  • Red River Rivalry
  • Football games SMU Mustangs

The Cotton Bowl is a 1932 opened, traditional sports complex at Fair Park Dallas. It is equipped with natural grass and holds 92,200 spectators. The name is a pun on the term cotton boll ( boll of cotton).

Here were and are a number of sports teams located:

  • SMU Mustangs ( NCAA) College Football
  • Dallas Cowboys (NFL, 1960-1970 ) pro football
  • Dallas Texans (NFL, 1952) pro football
  • Kansas City Chiefs ( as the Dallas Texans ) (AFL, 1960-1962 ) pro football
  • Dallas Tornado ( NASL; 1967-1968 ) Football
  • F. C. Dallas ( Dallas Burn up to 2005) (MLS; 1996-2002, 2004-2005) football

Some matches of the 1994 World Cup were held here. Furthermore Football is here annually to the Cotton Bowl trophy in college fought. The discharged annually Red River Rivalry between the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oklahoma, which represents one of the greatest rivalries in American sports, takes place here.

The stadium was renovated in 2008, the seating capacity was increased from 76,000 to 92,200.

Gallery

Panoramic view of the Missouri game against Arkansas in 2008

Cotton Bowl Stadium during the Red River Rivalry

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