Cotton Bowl Stadium, Dallas, Texas - Capacity Crowd
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| Opening day of the 1948 State Fair of Texas, showing the newly rebuilt and enlarged Cotton Bowl during a University of Texas vs. University of Oklahoma football game with almost 70,000 fans. Major improvements for the 1948 season included a second deck on the west side and conversion of 1,200 box seats, increasing capacity from 45,195 to 67,435 seats, at a cost of $1,280,000. |
