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Aggies, when did Kyle Field get rid of the track?
Posted on 7/21/16 at 9:33 pm
Posted on 7/21/16 at 9:33 pm
Watching the 1988 LSU/TAMU game. I never knew Kyle Field had a track. When did it get covered?
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Posted on 7/21/16 at 9:40 pm to stomp
99 when they put in the north endzone and ditched the horseshoe.
Posted on 7/21/16 at 9:41 pm to stomp
Don't know what year they got rid of it but until the most recent renovation you could still kinda see the old track outline.
Posted on 7/21/16 at 9:44 pm to Rebel Land Shark
You can see where it was.
You can also see the worst seats in football. We stuck our visitors there.
You can also see the worst seats in football. We stuck our visitors there.
This post was edited on 7/21/16 at 9:45 pm
Posted on 7/21/16 at 9:44 pm to Farmer1906
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99 when they put in the north endzone and ditched the horseshoe.
That was my senior year and the track was still there.
They got rid of the track in 2014.
Posted on 7/21/16 at 9:47 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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That was my senior year and the track was still there.
They didn't move the sidelines in until 2014, but the track was covered by the zone in the north and bleachers in the south.
It was covered with a different material years before as well.
Posted on 7/21/16 at 9:54 pm to stomp
They were sick of teams running laps around them
Posted on 7/21/16 at 10:01 pm to stomp
When the latest renovation were complete, the field was lowered and much of the space that used to be the track were filled in with seats.
Posted on 7/21/16 at 10:42 pm to Farmer1906
I like this version of that picture better.
Posted on 7/22/16 at 12:05 am to stomp
Field looks a lot better without the track. When was grass put in?
Posted on 7/22/16 at 9:39 am to CRDNLSCHMCPSN11
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CRDNLSCHMCPSN11
Aggies, when did Kyle Field get rid of the track?
Field looks a lot better without the track. When was grass put in?
Sometime in the 90s.
The company that made Astroturf went out of business just before ours needed to be replaced and those new pellet fields were still too new, so we went back to natural turf.
I don't miss the fake stuff. That old stuff was like concrete. Rain games were fun because you could see guys slide for 10 yds if they fell right.
Posted on 7/22/16 at 9:40 am to stomp
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when did Kyle Field get rid of the track?
when they realized this isn't high school.
Posted on 7/22/16 at 9:48 am to WG_Dawg
You'd be surprised how many other SEC stadiums originally had a track:
LSU
Arkansas
Ole Miss
MSU
Auburn
Missouri
Tennessee
LSU
Arkansas
Ole Miss
MSU
Auburn
Missouri
Tennessee
Posted on 7/22/16 at 9:50 am to WG_Dawg
Most stadiums had a track in the sec
Posted on 7/22/16 at 9:52 am to cjohn
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Rain games were fun because you could see guys slide for 10 yds if they fell right.
Reminds me of the rain scene in Necessary Roughness when they tie KU with the Kathy Ireland field goal
This post was edited on 7/22/16 at 9:52 am
Posted on 7/22/16 at 10:01 am to Gradual_Stroke
The reason A&M's persisted so long was that we built a permanent 32,000 seat horseshoe around the track in the late 20s. Most of those other schools started out with smaller stadiums that only had sideline seating, and ended up doing away with the track when they constructed permanent endzone seating mid-century. A&M first considered getting rid of the track in the '60s, but did two major expansions ('67 and '79) without touching the track, before finally rebuilding the north endzone in '99, and removing all traces of the track in the '14-'15 rebuilding.
Posted on 7/22/16 at 10:05 am to Gradual_Stroke
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Most stadiums had a track in the sec
in 1998?
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