Robertson Stadium

About Robertson Stadium

Robertson Stadium was a College Football and NFL stadium in Houston, Texas. It opened in 1942 and closed in 2012. It was designed by Harry D. Payne. Its last recorded capacity was 32,000. Tenants included Houston Cougars (College Football, 1946–1950, 1994–2012), Houston Oilers (NFL, 1960–1964) and Texas Southern Tigers (College Football, 1977–1992, 2001). In all, 3 teams from 2 leagues have called it home. On our ranked lists it ranks 59th for most name changes among 125 venues with 3 or more names, 31st for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams and 236th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years. It has also been known as Public School Stadium (1942–1957) and Jeppesen Stadium (1958–1980).

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• 59th for most name changes among 125 venues with 3 or more names
• 31st for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams
• 236th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 29th for most name changes among 71 football stadiums with 3 or more names
• 10th for most tenants among 22 football stadiums with 3 or more teams
• 118th shortest-lived of 142 football stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 21st for most name changes among 57 College Football stadiums with 3 or more names
• 90th shortest-lived of 110 College Football stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 10th shortest-lived of 11 AFL 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.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

The site today

• John O'Quinn Field at TDECU Stadium (opened 2014) now stands on or beside the site.

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

Teams

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.

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: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Capacity, Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (Public domain): Photograph.