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 was instrumental in starting the football program at the University of
Cincinnati in the late 1880s 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 Bearcats. It was built section by section as
funding became available for construction. In the mid 1920s 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: 35,097 -Surface:
Fieldturf -Opened:
November 24, 1916 -Cost:
Unknown
-Seating Chart
-Cincinnati
Bearcats Sports
BEARCATS TIDBITS
2008 SCHEDULE
CAMPUS WEATHER
Players in the NFL: Eddie Johnson, Ray
Jackson, Troy Evans
School Traditions: School Colors of Red
and Black
"The
stadium has a lot of new additions. In beautiful setting much like
Rutgers stadium. Very Close to the sidelines and field. Feels like
your right in the action. "
- Josh Laferty
Nippert
Stadium
