Bryant-Denny Stadium

Bryant-Denny Stadium

Quick Info

Building # 7046

  • Alabama Crimson Tide Football
  • Intercollegiate Athletics General Administration

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Bryant-Denny Stadium is the on-campus home of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team, winners of 14 national championships. The stadium is the fifth-largest in the Southeastern Conference and seventh-largest on-campus football stadium in the nation.

Prior to Bryant-Denny Stadium being built, the Alabama football team played on the Quad from 1893 to 1914 and on the University Field, renamed Denny Field in 1920, from 1915 to 1917 and 1919 to 1928. Denny Field was two blocks east of the current stadium, behind Little Hall. Mallet Hall and Parker-Adams Hall now stand on the north endzone and a parking lot covers the rest of what remains of Denny Field.

Bryant-Denny Stadium was built in 1929 and christened George Hutcheson Denny Stadium after the 15th president of the University. In 1975, the state legislature renamed the stadium "Bryant-Denny Stadium" in honor of Coach Paul William "Bear" Bryant who led the Crimson Tide to six national titles.

The current stadium has a seating capacity of 101,000 with an all-time attendance record of the same amount. All Tuscaloosa home games since 1988 have been consecutively sold out. Bryant-Denny has three video scoreboards and state-of-the-art ribbon wrap-around display boards as well as 123 skyboxes.

Expansions

  • 1937 - 18,000 capacity
  • 1950 - 25,000
  • 1961 - 43,000
  • 1966 - 60,000
  • 1988 - 70,123
  • 1998 - 83,818
  • 2006 - 92,138
  • 2010 - 101,000

Tours of the stadium are available by appointment only. Send your request for a tour to cbobo@ia.ua.edu, or fax in a written request to (205) 348-5621.

List of Alabama Football Coaches

  1. E.B. Beaumont (1892)
  2. Eli Abbott  (1893-1895)  
  3. Otto Wagonhurst  (1896)
  4. Allen McCants  (1897)
    (In 1896 the University's board of trustees passed a rule forbidding athletic teams from traveling off the campus. As a result Alabama only played one game in 1897 and did not field a team in 1898. The ban was lifted in 1899.)       
  5. W.A. Martin (1899)
  6. M. Griffin  (1900)             
  7. M.H. Harvey  (1901)
  8. Eli Abbott  (1902)
  9. W.B. Blount (1903-1904)
  10. Jack Leavenworth (1905)
  11. J.W.H. Pollard (1906-1909)          
  12. Guy Lowman (1910)
  13. D.V. Graves (1911-1914)              
  14. Thomas Kelly (1915-1917)
  15. Xen C. Scott (1919-1922)                              
  16. Wallace Wade (1923-1930)
  17. Frank Thomas (1931-1946)
  18. H.D. Drew (1947-1954)  
  19. J.B. Whitworth (1955-1957)        
  20. Paul W. Bryant (1958-1982)         
  21. Ray Perkins (1983-1986)               
  22. Bill Curry (1987-1989)     
  23. Gene Stallings (1990-1996)          
  24. Mike DuBose (1997-2000)           
  25. Dennis Franchione (2001-2002)
  26. Mike Price (fired prior to the season)(2003)
  27. Mike Shula (2003-2006)                
  28. Joe Kines (Interim) (2006)
  29. Nick Saban (2007-Present)

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Information collected from The University of Alabama : a guide to the campus by Robert Oliver Mellown (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1988), The University of Alabama, a pictorial history by Suzanne Rau Wolfe (University : University of Alabama Press, c1983), the Paul W. Bryant Museum’s page, and RollTide.com’s Facilities page.