Memorial Stadium is an American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 and soccer stadium

Stadium

A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...

 in Wichita Falls, Texas

Wichita Falls, Texas

Wichita Falls is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States, United States. Wichita Falls is the principal city of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Archer, Clay and Wichita counties. According to the U.S. Census estimate of 2010,...

 located on Southwest Parkway at Barnett Road. It is owned and operated by the Wichita Falls Independent School District

Wichita Falls Independent School District

Wichita Falls Independent School District ' is a public school district based in Wichita Falls, Texas, United States and is accredited by the Texas Education Agency....

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Built in 1970, the stadium can comfortably seat 14,500 fans with room for 2,500 more and is one of the largest high school football stadiums in the state of Texas. Some of the stadium's attractions include parking for up to 3,600 cars, a luxurious two-story press box for visiting coaches, dignitaries, and the media, as well as an artificial playing turf and state of the art scoreboard. Every summer, Memorial Stadium is host to the Oil Bowl

Oil Bowl (high school)

The Oil Bowl is a high school football game played between All-Star teams from Texas and Oklahoma. The all star game began in 1938, originally between East and West Texas high school football all-stars. It was not until 1945 that the game began pitting Oklahoma against Texas...

 Classic, an annual high school all-star football game that pits the best football players from Texas against those from Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

. On April 10, 1979, Memorial Stadium was severely damaged when a F4 tornado tore through the southwest portion of Wichita Falls.

Memorial Stadium is home to the John Hirschi High School Huskies, S.H. Rider High School Raiders

S. H. Rider High School

S.H. Rider High School is a public school in Wichita Falls, Texas . It is part of the Wichita Falls Independent School District and is one of the district's three high schools....

, and Wichita Falls High School Coyotes

Wichita Falls High School

Wichita Falls High School or WFHS is a public school in Wichita Falls, Texas . It is part of the Wichita Falls Independent School District and is one of the district's three high schools....

. Also, it has served as home to the Midwestern State University

Midwestern State University

Midwestern State University is a public liberal arts college in Wichita Falls, Texas, and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges...

 football program since 1988.