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Kyle Field
Kyle Field is currently the biggest football venue in the State of Texas. However , the renovation of the north end of Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin will supplant it upon its completion in 2008.
In the fall of 1904, Edwin Jackson Kyle, an 1899 graduate of Texas A&M and professor of horticulture, was named president of the General Athletics Association.
Kyle wanted to secure and develop an athletic field to promote the school's athletics. Texas A&M was unwilling to provide funds, so Kyle fenced off a section of the southeast corner of campus that had been assigned to him for agricultural use.
Using $650 of his own money, he purchased a covered grandstand from the Bryan fairgrounds and built wooden bleachers to raise the seating capacity to 500 people.
The Texas A&M Board of Directors set this area as a permanent athletic field, which served as the home for the football and baseball teams.
After the stands were built, students supported naming the field after its founder and builder. Although some believe that the field was instead named after Dr. J. Allen Kyle, a member of the Board of Directors from 1911-1915, the Board of Directors decreed that Kyle Field was in fact named for E.J. Kyle '99.
After the first World War, the stadium was dedicated as a living memorial to the Aggies who died in the war. On game days 55 American flags, one for each Aggie killed, fly around the highest points of the stadium.
In 1921, the November game between the Aggies and their archrival the University of Texas at Kyle Field became the first college football game to offer a live, play-by-play broadcast. The Aggies enjoyed an undefeated season in 1919, accumulating a combined score of 275-0.
Aggie supporters began to clamor for a stadium, but only $2,400 was raised by 1920. In 1927, the school chose to build a new stadium, at a cost of $345,001.67.
The new stadium--the lower half of the current structure's west grandstand--opened later that year. In 1929, grandstands were added on the north and west ends, turning the facility into a 33,000-seat horseshoe.
Capacity was raised to 35,000 in 1954 when a partial second deck and a pressbox were added at a cost of $346,000.
More of second deck and other improvements were added in 1969 to raise the capacity to 49,000 at a cost of $1,840,000.
In 1974, two flagpoles were added at the south end of the stadium in memory of Lt. William B. Blocker, Texas A&M class of 1945.
Expansion continued in 1979, when a third deck was added to Kyle Field, bringing the capacity to 72,000.
Construction took place during the football season, and students were allowed into the area as each row of seating was added.
In 1981, 16-foot-high letters spelling out "KYLE FIELD" were installed.
The Bernard C. Richardson Zone was added in 1999 at a cost of $32.9 million raising the capacity to 82,600.
For high-demand games, temporary bleachers are installed in the south end zone and folding chairs are placed on the sidelines. The record for the largest crowd at Kyle Field was 87,555, set November 23, 2001 against the University of Texas.
In the fall of 2003, the Bright Football Complex was completed on the south end of the stadium. The facility includes a players' lounge overlooking Kyle Field, dressing rooms, one of the largest training and rehabilitation facilities in the country, and a state-of-the-art academic center.
The field had a grass surface until 1969, when Astroturf was installed. It returned to a grass surface in 1996. Since that time, the turf has consistently received praise from players and coaches.
For their efforts, the groundskeepers were honored in 2004 as the winners of the STMA College Football Field of the Year. Kyle Field remains the largest football venue in the State of Texas
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