Several years ago I was trying to find out what Texas High School football stadium had the largest seating capacity.
In a state where High School football is king, what school district had doled out tax money to build the most bleachers to seat the most high school football fans in the state of Texas? Was it the famed Ratliff Stadium in Odessa? Made famous not only by the success of the Odessa Permian football team but by the best selling book “Friday Night Lights” Ratliff holds only a mere 19, 302 fans. No it was Alamo Stadium in San Antonio with a capacity of 23,000. The stadium, built in 1940, was Civilian Conservation Corp project, a depression era program to employ young men during the depression.
This search for the largest High School Football stadium took me down many roads and in the end I had collected a lot of stadium information. TexasBob.com, my alter ego webpage, had been on line for several years and I decide to publish the information that I had collected. Over the years this has grown into a massive undertaking.
I now have a listing for every football stadium used for regular season games for every varsity high school team, every college team and both professional teams in the state of Texas. This amounts to 1140 stadiums, each listing has a map link to the stadium and other important information. Of the 1140 stadiums I have pictures of 550 stadiums. I have picture of all the majors stadiums but I take special pride in having a picture of most of the six man football stadiums. A good example of this is the one pictured above in Loop, Texas.
This has also created an amazing number of Texas football stadium facts and figures. For example: currently 46 High School Football Stadiums in Texas have full video scoreboards with replay capability.
Here are some selected stadium links:
Texas High School Stadium Facts
High School Stadiums with Video capability
Ratliff Stadium – Odessa, Texas
Longhorn Field – Loop, Texas
Texas Football Stadium Database
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