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Students and alumni paid for it themselves, and a century later their 275,000-dollar bet holds a hundred thousand people on football Saturdays. Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium at 2100 San Jacinto Boulevard, on the University of Texas campus in Austin, broke ground on 4 April 1924 after athletics director L. Theo Bellmont and thirty student leaders persuaded the regents to replace wooden Clark Field with concrete. The first unit - east and west stands seating 27,000, hailed as the largest ...