Home Stadium
The Horned Frogs have played their home football games at Amon G. Carter Stadium, located on the campus of TCU, since 1930.
Named for the famous Fort Worth newspaper magnate who made the original donation to finance the stadium, Amon Carter opened in 1930 with an original seating capacity of 22,000. The first game played in the stadium was in October, a 70-6 TCU victory over the Arkansas Razorbacks. Renovations in 1947 and 1955 added additional seating and an upper deck, which increased capacity to roughly 45,000. The stadium remained in this configuration until 2010, when a major renovation reduced the entire stadium to its original lower bowl, before erecting a new stadium on the same site. The design of the current Amon Carter stadium was influenced heavily by the surrounding architecture of Fort Worth, with emphasis on Art Deco style. The Frogs will open the new stadium in time for the 2012 season.
Amon Carter stadium features a natural grass field and a seating capacity of roughly 45,000. Standing-room only concourses allow capacity to exceed this number when ticket demand exceeds seating availability. The 2012-2012 renovation added a 54 ft. video board over the North endzone, with a smaller videoboard located in the Southeast corner. The attendance record at Amon Carter stadium was set on November 14, 2009, when the No. 4 ranked Horned Frogs beat the No. 16 ranked University of Utah Utes 55-28.
Before Amon Carter stadium, the Horned Frogs played their home games on campus at Clark Field, located at the current site of Mary Couts Burnett Library.
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