Denny Field

Opened in 1895

About Denny Field

Denny Field was a College Football stadium in Seattle, Washington. It opened in 1895 and closed in 1920. Its only tenant was Washington Huskies (College Football, 1915–1919). On our ranked lists it ranks 88th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years. It has also been known as University Field (until 1920).

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88th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
32nd shortest-lived of 142 football stadiums with known opening and closing years
24th shortest-lived of 110 College Football stadiums with known opening and closing years

Venue Information

Year Opened

1895

Year Closed

1920

Location

Seattle, Washington

Elevation

192 ft

58 m above sea level

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.

Teams

Home seasons at Denny Field by team, 1895–1920. Bars use each team's colors at the time; the table below lists every season.

Team	League	Years
Washington Huskies While based here: 5 seasons · 14-4-2 regular season · no postseason trips College Football · 1915–1919 Pacific Coast Conference 1916–1919 · Independent 1915 · Major College Territory map on ImperialismMap Denny Field 1915–1919 Husky Stadium 1920–2011 CenturyLink Field 2012 Husky Stadium 2013–present	College Football	1915–1919

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

Frequently Asked Questions

When was Denny Field built?

Denny Field opened in 1895.

Where did the Washington Huskies play after Denny Field?

After leaving Denny Field in 1919, the Washington Huskies moved to Husky Stadium in 1920. They played there until 2011.

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 compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
Wikidata (CC0): Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 33 m of this point).
Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.

Historical Names

Denny Field

Unknown - 1920

Current

University Field

Unknown - 1920

Location

Coordinates: 47.6600, -122.3060

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Nearby Venues

Venue	Years	Distance
Husky Stadium	1920–	0.7 mi
Climate Pledge Arena	1962–	3.5 mi
Lumen Field	2002–	4.6 mi
Kingdome	1976–2000	4.6 mi
T-Mobile Park	1999–	4.9 mi
Sick's Stadium	1932–1979	5.5 mi

Straight-line distance between the venues' coordinates.

References

Teams on Wikipedia

Washington Huskies

Every source for the facts on this page is listed under Sources.