Stadium Project: Jones Stadium, El Paso (Texas)

Jones StadiumEl Paso High School overlooks Jones Stadium.
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Jones Stadium on the campus of El Paso High School (Texas) is a throwback to a bygone era.

The concrete stadium was built in 1916 with a seating capacity of 12,000.  The cost of construction was $500,000.

El Paso High School, named “The Lady on the Hill”, offers great views of El Paso and city of Ciudad Juarez, across the Mexico border.

Jones Stadium served as the host to the first three Sun Bowl from 1935 through 1937.  Interestingly, the first Sun Bowl in 1935 didn’t feature college football teams.  Instead, an all-star high school football team from El Paso played Ranger High School (Texas).  The all-stars won 25-21.

In 1936, New Mexico State played Hardin-Simmons in the first Sun Bowl between college football teams.

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Jeff Fisher
Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.