Tulane Stadium

Tulane Stadium
The Sugar Bowl
Willow Street entrance in 1979
Map
New Orleans is located in the United States
New Orleans
New Orleans
Location in the United States
New Orleans is located in Louisiana
New Orleans
New Orleans
Location in Louisiana
AddressWillow Street and
Ben Weiner Drive
LocationTulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana
Coordinates29°56′34″N 90°7′3″W / 29.94278°N 90.11750°W / 29.94278; -90.11750
OwnerTulane University
OperatorTulane University
Capacity80,985 (1956–1975)
80,735 (1947–1955)
69,000 (1939–1946)
49,000 (1937–1938)
35,000 (1926–1936)
Record attendance86,598 (December 1, 1973)
SurfacePoly-Turf (1971–1979)
Natural grass (1926–1970)
Construction
Broke groundApril 7, 1924
OpenedOctober 23, 1926 (1926-10-23)
ClosedNovember 3, 1979 (1979-11-03)
DemolishedNovember 18, 1979–
June 15, 1980
Construction cost$295,968[1]
($60.8 million adjusted for inflation[2])
Tenants
Tulane Green Wave (NCAA) 1926–1974
Sugar Bowl (NCAA) 1935–1974
New Orleans Saints (NFL) 1967–1974
Pelican Bowl (NCAA) 1974
Sugar Bowl – 1948

Tulane Stadium was an outdoor football stadium in the southern United States on the campus of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. It stood from 1926 to 1980 and was officially the Third Tulane Stadium, following the "Second Tulane Stadium", which was located where the Telephone Exchange Building is now.[1]

The former site is currently bound by Willow Street to the south, Ben Weiner Drive to the east, the Tulane University property line west of McAlister Place, and the Hertz Basketball/Volleyball Practice Facility and the Green Wave's current home, Yulman Stadium, to the north.

Tulane Stadium hosted the Sugar Bowl through December 1974 and three of the first nine Super Bowls, in January 1970, 1972, and 1975.

  1. ^ a b "Tulane Stadium History" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on August 7, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2007.
  2. ^ Williamson, Samuel H. (2016). "Seven Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a U.S. Dollar Amount, 1774 to present". MeasuringWorth. To access, user must enter "1924" in the first search bar, enter "295968" in the second bar, enter "2015" in the third bar and click "Calculate". Archived from the original on November 19, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2017.

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