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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Mighty Michigan came to Nashville in October 1922 to christen the South's first stadium built purely for college football - and 20,000 fans watched Vanderbilt hold them to a scoreless tie. FirstBank Stadium, on Vanderbilt University's campus at Jess Neely Drive and Natchez Trace, opened that year as Dudley Field, a horseshoe that dwarfed rival Tennessee's 3,200-seat field and announced the Commodores' stature in the young sport. The stadium grew in stages to 34,000 by 1960, then was essentially...