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Iowa State University's football stadium opened 50 years ago and was funded entirely by private donations.

The stadium was officially named Jack Trice Stadium in 1997 after a decades-long student-led campaign to honor the university's first Black athlete.

Recent expansions, including the 2015 Sukup End Zone Club, have increased the stadium's capacity to 61,500.

Fifty years ago, Iowa State University’s newly constructed football stadium opened for its first home game. The facility didn’t have an official name yet, but it had an exciting future ahead of it.

The $7.2 million stadium was a project of the ISU Foundation and was constructed — along with the rest of the $19.5 million Iowa State Center — without use of state or federal funds. Hilton Coliseum was complete

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