Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium, College football stadium in Fort Collins, United States
Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium was a college football stadium in a natural oval bowl near Horsetooth Reservoir, about four miles west of Colorado State University's main campus. It seated 32,500 with club seats and 12 luxury suites completed in 2005. The field was natural grass for 38 years until FieldTurf was installed in 2006.
Opened on September 28, 1968, replacing the 14,000-seat on-campus Colorado Field, Hughes Stadium hosted the Colorado State Rams for 49 seasons. The west stands were expanded and capped by a press box, and club seats and 12 luxury suites were completed in 2005. The finale on November 19, 2016, was a 49–31 win over New Mexico; demolition followed in 2018.
The playing surface was named in 2003 for Sonny Lubick, head coach from 1993 to 2007, the winningest coach in school history, with six conference titles and nine bowl appearances. The stadium hosted Bob Dylan's NBC special and live album Hard Rain, recorded during a rainstorm in May 1976.
The stadium stood on a 161-acre site near Horsetooth Reservoir, about four miles west of the main campus, so visitors reached it by road rather than on foot. The field lay at roughly 5,190 feet (1,580 m) above sea level. Seating covered three sides, with an open grass berm behind the south end zone that was not open for seating.
Bob Dylan recorded the NBC television special and live album Hard Rain at Hughes Stadium during a rainstorm in May 1976. The venue also hosted a school-record eight consecutive Rams wins between October 1989 and August 1991.
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