Edward L. Blackshear Field

About Edward L. Blackshear Field

Edward L. Blackshear Field was a College Football stadium in Prairie View, Texas. It opened in 1960 and closed in 2015. Its last recorded capacity was 6,000. Its only tenant was Prairie View A&M Panthers (College Football, 1977–2014). On our ranked lists it ranks 182nd shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

Appears in

• 182nd shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 86th shortest-lived of 142 football stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 64th shortest-lived of 110 College Football stadiums with known opening and closing years

Venue Information

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

The site today

• Panther Stadium at Blackshear Field (opened 2016) now stands on or beside the site.

Later venues are matched by the recorded coordinates in our own venue records.

Teams

Game results are on record only for top-division college football seasons; other seasons count toward seasons here but not toward the record.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• VenueStats: What stands on the site today.
• VenueStats compilation: Coordinates (compiled by VenueStats; no outside source was kept for this point), Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity.