Stadium Project: Cramton Bowl – Montgomery, Alabama

Cramton Bowl
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There’s nothing better than an old-time stadium to wake you up on a cold day during our week-long stay in Montgomery, Alabama. While snow flurries greeted me as I left the warmth of my Homewood Suites room, the thoughts of getting inside the Cramton Bowl that opened in 1922 and hosted the first-ever night game in the South. That game was in 1927 between Cloverdale and Park Road High Schools. It drew about 7,200 fans.

  • Cramton Bowl

Currently, the 25,000 seat stadium is shared by five teams in the Montgomery Public Schools system  —  Carver Jeff Davis, Lanier, Lee and Park Crossing.

The Cramton Bowl is named for Fred J. Cramton, a local businessman who donated the land for the stadium. It first opened as a baseball stadium. It is known as the home of the Blue-Gray Classic Football Classic that featured college football all-stars from 1938 to 2001.

In addition to the local football games, the Cramton Bowl is also the host of the Camellia Bowl, a college football bowl game featuring teams from the Sun Belt Conference and Mid-American Conference.

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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.