I was randomly going through historical pictures of Kyle Field on the Cushing Library's website and came across this rendering from 1966 of "a look at the future Kyle Field Stadium". I've never seen this before and was wondering if anyone else had any background on this and why it never happened (this way at least)?

It's wild to think that Kyle could've looked completely different than it currently does.

I like that they were planning and loading a bowl on the first deck, while still leaving the possibility of having a tackle box like second and 3rd deck.

But based on that it looks like we could have ended up with 3 wrap around decks. Which would have been awesome. Who knows maybe after we built that we would have had a better chance at a natty

Obviously expecting sellout crowds wasn't a big vision back in 1966

G. Rollie White!

Aggie said:

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Obviously expecting sellout crowds wasn't a big vision back in 1966

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Go check out what enrollment and the alumni base was in 1966. That stadium would be hard to sell out for 1966 A&M. Hell, I think the midpoint for total graduates in the history of A&M is approaching the year 2000 by now.

Referring to the lack of fans in the rendering… not the size of the expansion

Should have had "Texas Aggies" in the endzones.

Deware

Do you remember...back in nineteen sixty-six?
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I've never seen this before and was wondering if anyone else had any background on this and why it never happened (this way at least)?

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I cannot speak to the "why", but can address the when…

I was a fish in '67, the last time we won the SWC. At that time Kyle was a single deck horsehoe, open on the south end, and a west side second deck that extended between the 35's (if memory serves). I think it was after the '68 season that construction began on the addition of the two upper decks on both sides. Think that project was completed before the '69 season.

So, the rendering you posted was supplanted by the much larger two-tier design that stood for 45 years.

Looks like Floyd Casey before the tarps….

It looks nothing like Floyd Casey to me lol

CDMAg21 said:

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It looks nothing like Floyd Casey to me lol

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In reference to the empty seats…….

I attended the 1967 sip game with my high school friend whose brother and SIL were Aggie grad students and we were their guests. We stood in the partially completed east side upper deck and had a great view of the Edd Hargett to Bob Long touchdown pass. There was a plywood barrier at the end of the unfinished deck to keep people from falling off.

Caesar4 said:

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Should have had "Texas Aggies" in the endzones.

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No bevel!! Big T. I have never seen AMU at the bottom of the T like that. But matches the 1963 renaming.

I was a fish in '68 and the new east side upper deck was complete and getting final touches in August '68. I got a job working every afternoon and weekends installing the fiberglass bench seats. We then had to wire brush them after the first home game because of the complaints of fiberglass "splinters."

CDMAg21 said:

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I was randomly going through historical pictures of Kyle Field on the Cushing Library's website and came across this rendering from 1966 of "a look at the future Kyle Field Stadium". I've never seen this before and was wondering if anyone else had any background on this and why it never happened (this way at least)?

It's wild to think that Kyle could've looked completely different than it currently does.

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Shading is all wrong.

Give it a 2/5. WNB

AgEngineer72 said:

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I was a fish in '68 and the new east side upper deck was complete and getting final touches in August '68. I got a job working every afternoon and weekends installing the fiberglass bench seats. We then had to wire brush them after the first home game because of the complaints of fiberglass "splinters."

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Ah yes the joys of cheap fiberglass and its cheese grater, flesh rending surface

CDMAg21 said:

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It looks nothing like Floyd Casey to me lol

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Correct. It looks like Rice Stadium.

CDMAg21 said:

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I was randomly going through historical pictures of Kyle Field on the Cushing Library's website and came across this rendering from 1966 of "a look at the future Kyle Field Stadium". I've never seen this before and was wondering if anyone else had any background on this and why it never happened (this way at least)?

It's wild to think that Kyle could've looked completely different than it currently does.

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This design would have forced them to tear down everything that was existing and start from the ground up, because there's no room for the track. We jus got rid of the track in the last remodel and had to lower the field to extend the existing east stands over the old track.

Typical 1960s approach to "build new, newer is better!" without any reference to the historical, architectural or symbolic importance of spaces. Lost a lot of beautiful county courthouses, churches, public buildings, schools, train stations, and gained soulless Bauhaus and Soviet bloc buildings back in that era of false optimism.

I love any thread that brings the old dusty ags out to tell their stories

sleepybeagle said:

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G. Rollie White!

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DeWare Field House

Even for the 60s this is a ****ty rendering. Lol.

I started a thread on old Kyle Field photos a year and a half ago, if anyone is interested:

https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3113635/replies/56597641#56597641

Grackle on duty.

I mean it's ahead of it's time. We basically have a Rectangular 1st deck now. Architects were early abolishers of the horseshoe and reveille graves.

What is that a stadium for ants?

So the guy just gave up after drawing 22 cars? I mean, i guess a lot of people had to have walked to have even that sparse of a crowd with 22 cars in the parking lot but...

Maybe you either need to hire out the rest of the cars in there or maybe make the parking lot slightly smaller.

Also, if you park in the "front row" doesn't look like you'll be leaving until the yell leaders have dried off because you cant leave until the guy behind you does....

And then there seems to be the worlds first "Jackass of the Game" parking not in a parking spot, but just randomly in the drive space between behind the parking rows. And yes I can blame him because there's at least another 60 or 70 spots you could have parked in really, without having to resort to this type of behavior.

22 cars in the parking lot....

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AgEngineer72 said:

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I was a fish in '68 and the new east side upper deck was complete and getting final touches in August '68. I got a job working every afternoon and weekends installing the fiberglass bench seats. We then had to wire brush them after the first home game because of the complaints of fiberglass "splinters."

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Ah yes the joys of cheap fiberglass and its cheese grater, flesh rending surface

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That crap makes me ITCH like hell. No two ways around it, fiberglass surfaces suck.

You're off by a year. The construction was during the '67 season. If you were a fish in '67 then you might recall we played Purdue in the Cotton Bowl stadium because the work on Kyle Field was not finished.

bigblackag12 said:

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I love any thread that brings the old dusty ags out to tell their stories

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I resemble that remark.

aggiejim70 said:

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bigblackag12 said:

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I love any thread that brings the old dusty ags out to tell their stories

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I resemble that remark.

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I have definitely enjoyed some of your shared memories Mr. aggiejim70 sir.

BoerneGator said:

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I've never seen this before and was wondering if anyone else had any background on this and why it never happened (this way at least)?

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I cannot speak to the "why", but can address the when…

I was a fish in '67, the last time we won the SWC. At that time Kyle was a single deck horsehoe, open on the south end, and a west side second deck that extended between the 35's (if memory serves). I think it was after the '68 season that construction began on the addition of the two upper decks on both sides. Think that project was completed before the '69 season.

So, the rendering you posted was supplanted by the much larger two-tier design that stood for 45 years.

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Maybe I'm misunderstanding your post but 1967 was far from the last time we won the SWC. We won it outright in '85, '86, '87, '91, '92, and '93 and shared the title in '75 (would have won it in '94 had we not been on probation).
Furthermore, things changed well before 45 years. Both sides got second decks in '67 and then the third decks were added in '80. The north 'Zone' was added in '99.