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Nippert Stadium
Cincinnati, OH

Home of the Cincinnati Bearcats, Nippert Stadium is the sixth oldest stadium in college football. Football at the site of Nippert Stadium dates back over 100 years. Arch Carson led in getting football at the University of Cincinnati in the late 1880�s and helped found the field that the team began playing on in 1902. By 1916 , construction began on the brick and concrete stadium for the team. It was built section by section as funding became available for construction. In the mid 1920�s James Gamble provided $250,000 to complete the stadium, it was dedicated in November 1924, and had a seating capacity of 12,000. The stadium was named after Gamble�s grandson, Jimmy Nippert, who died from a spike wound while playing football for the Bearcats.

The first of several improvements and expansions to Nippert Stadium came before the 1936 season when the field was lowered 12 feet allowing for the seating capacity to be increased to 24,000. Nearly two decades later, the Reed Shank Pavilion was completed boosting the seating capacity by an additional 4,000. Astroturf replaced the grass field before the 1970 season and it has maintained an artificial playing surface since then. Prior to the 1992 season, $10.1 million in renovations occurred at Nippert Stadium. This included new luxury areas, a new seating configuration that increased the seating capacity to 35,000 with an upper deck extension. A new scoreboard was also installed but replaced with a new video/scoreboard before the 2001 season. Over the years, Nippert Stadium has been a nice quaint place for college football and will continue to be in the future.

Facts & Figures

-Tenant: Cincinnati Bearcats
-Conference: Big East
-Capacity: 35,000
-Surface: Fieldturf
-Opened: November 24, 1916
-Cost: Unknown
-Seating Chart
-Cincinnati Bearcats Sports
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BEARCAT TIDBITS

2007 SCHEDULE

NIPPERT STADIUM PICTURES

Players in the NFL: Eddie Johnson, Ray Jackson, Troy Evans
School Traditions: School Colors of Red and Black

-8/30 - SE MISSOURI STATE
-9/6 - OREGON STATE
-9/15 - at Miami-OH
-9/22 - MARSHALL
-9/29 - at San Diego State
-10/6 - at Rutgers
-10/13 - LOUISVILLE
-10/20 - at Pittsburgh
-11/3 - at South Florida
-11/10 - UCONN
-11/17 - WEST VIRGINIA
-11/24 - at Syracuse

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