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Sun Devil Stadium, also known as Frank Kush Field is located on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe. It is home to the great Arizona State Sun Devils college football team.
Built in 1958, the stadium seats 73,379 people. The original seating capacity was 30,000 in 1958. The first addition in 1976 raised capacity to 57,722. Seating was added to the south end of the stadium, along with press and sky boxes. A year later, in 1977, the upper tier was completed to bring seating to 70,491. In 1988, 1,700 more seats were added to bring the facility to the current capacity. During that time the Carson Student Athlete Center was added to the south end. The building is the home of the ASU Athletic Department. On September 21, 1996, the playing surface was named in honor of former ASU football coaching great Frank Kush, and the name of the stadium was changed from Sun Devil Stadium to Sun Devil Stadium, Frank Kush Field.
The first game to be played at the stadium was on October 4, 1958. Arizona State defeated West Texas State 16-13. Sun Devil Stadium hosted college football's Fiesta Bowl from 1971 to 2006. The largest crowd ever seated for a college football game at the stadium was 74,963 for an Arizona State-California-Berkeley college football game won by the Sun Devils, 35-7 on November 9, 1996.
The first pro game played in the stadium was a pre-season game between the New York Jets and the Minnesota Vikings in 1975. This college football facility became an NFL stadium in 1988, when the St. Louis (football) Cardinals moved to Arizona and became the Phoenix Cardinals, later renamed Arizona Cardinals in 1994. The stadium hosted Super Bowl XXX in 1996 as the Dallas Cowboys won their fifth Vince Lombardi Trophy, defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17 in front of the all-time stadium record of 76,347 spectators.
In 2006, the Arizona Cardinals moved from Sun Devil Stadium to University of Phoenix Stadium in another Phoenix suburb called Glendale. The new stadium will also host the Fiesta Bowl, as well as Super Bowl XLII in 2008. ASU continues to use Sun Devil Stadium, which will now host the Insight Bowl, moving from Chase Field, (formally known as Bank One Ball Park, BOB), the home field of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Sun Devil Stadium Address
500 East Veterans Way
Tempe, Arizona 85281
Contacting The Sun Devil Ticket Office
Telephone: 480-965-2381
In-State Toll Free: 1-888-SUN-DVLS
Group Sales/Season Ticket Sales Office: 480-727-0000
Mail: ASU Ticket Office, PO Box 872405, Tempe, AZ 85287
E-Mail: sundeviltickets@asu.edu
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