Hughes Stadium is a stadium in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the Colorado State University Rams. The seating capacity is 34,000. It has a state of the art video board along with club seats and 12 luxury suites completed in 2005. In 2006 a state of the art FieldTurf football field was installed, making Hughes Stadium one of the best in terms of ameneties in the Mountain West Conference.

September 28, 1968

	Capacity		34,000
	Opened
	Owner		Colorado State University
	Operator		Colorado State University
	Surface		FieldTurf
	Location		S Overland Trail Fort Collins, CO 80526

In the stadium’s first game, the Colorado State Rams lost to North Texas 17-12, on September 28, 1968. From October 21, 1989 to August 21, 1991, the Rams won 8 straight games at Hughes Stadium, a school record.

The stadium was built in 1968 on a plot of land on the edge of Fort Collins, approximately four miles west of the school’s campus. It replaced the old Colorado Field, a 12,000-seat on campus stadium. It sits in a natural oval bowl, with seats on three sides and an open grass berm (not open for seating) behind the south endzone. The west (home side) stands are expanded out of the bowl and capped by a press box. It is named for Harry Hughes, a longtime coach at then-Colorado Agricultural in the early 20th century. The field itself was renamed in 2003 in honor of coach Sonny Lubick.

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