Sam Boyd Stadium

About Sam Boyd Stadium

Sam Boyd Stadium was a College Football stadium in Whitney, Nevada. It opened in 1971 and closed in 2020. It was designed by Ellerbe Becket. Its last recorded capacity was 36,800. Its only tenant was UNLV Rebels (College Football, 1971–2019). On our ranked lists it ranks 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names and 163rd shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years. It has also been known as Las Vegas Stadium (1971–1977), Las Vegas Silver Bowl (1978–1983) and Sam Boyd Silver Bowl (1984–1993).

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• 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names
• 163rd shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 8th for most name changes among 68 football stadiums with 3 or more names
• 69th shortest-lived of 139 football stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 5th for most name changes among 55 College Football stadiums with 3 or more names
• 51st shortest-lived of 107 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.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

The site today

• The building still stands as Sam Boyd Stadium.

From OpenStreetMap data near the venue's recorded coordinates, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Maps show what is there now, not the old footprint.

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.

A season split between two home venues counts in full at each.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

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

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap (ODbL): What stands on the site today.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• 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 15 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY): Photograph.