Gayle and Tom Benson Stadium, NCAA Division I football stadium in San Antonio, United States.
The Gayle and Tom Benson Stadium is a college football facility at Incarnate Word University in San Antonio. The venue includes a synthetic playing surface, an eight-lane track, jumping areas, and a scoreboard that displays real-time game information.
Gayle and Tom Benson Stadium opened on the Incarnate Word campus on September 1, 2008, when Tom Benson, his family and more than 2,000 Cardinals fans and athletes declared it ready. Benson, a San Antonio native and owner of the New Orleans Saints until his death in 2018, funded the start of the university's football program. North bleachers added in 2010 brought permanent seating to 6,000, and in May 2018 the original Hellas Matrix turf was replaced with FieldTurf Classic HD.
The stadium serves as the home field for the Incarnate Word Cardinals football program at the largest Catholic university in Texas. Fans gather here regularly to support their team and experience game day traditions together.
The stadium sits on the University of the Incarnate Word campus in San Antonio, with the field surrounded by an eight-lane Sport Track 300 all-weather surface and three jumping pits. The Daktronics scoreboard stands behind the west endzone, its 20-by-10-foot video screen showing game information. The adjoining Benson Fieldhouse covers 16,000 square feet.
The record crowd of 6,498 on November 17, 2016, against Houston Baptist exceeded the stadium's listed 6,000 seats. The north bleachers added in 2010 brought permanent seating to that figure, while the south side holds six suites and the north side two press boxes, one a permanent home for KUIW Internet Radio and UIWTV.
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