Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium, Football stadium at University of Texas campus, Austin, United States
Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium is a football arena on the University of Texas campus in Austin that holds over 100,000 spectators. The facility spans multiple levels with stands surrounding the playing field on all sides and contains club rooms, press boxes, and a separate section for the marching band.
The arena opened in 1924 as Memorial Stadium with room for 27,000 people to honor Texan soldiers who died in World War I. Several expansions followed over the decades, including a major south zone renovation in 2021 that brought capacity to its current size.
The stadium is named for Darrell K Royal, who led Texas to three national championships and eleven Southwest Conference titles and was honored in 1996. The student body dedicated the original 1924 stadium to the 198,520 Texans who fought in World War I, 5,280 of whom died. A statue representing democracy stands atop the north end zone seats, with a granite monument placed at its base in 1977.
The arena sits on the northeastern edge of the university grounds, within walking distance from the main campus. On game days the facility fills hours before kickoff, so arriving early helps avoid crowds.
The video board nicknamed "Godzillatron" was installed around 2006 with a screen area of 685 square metres, then the largest in the world until a Tokyo display surpassed it shortly after. It hangs at the north end of the stadium, not the south, where a later end zone project was planned.
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