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| Location | 2000 W Russell St, Sioux Falls, South Dakota |
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| Owner | Sioux Falls School District |
| Operator | Sioux Falls School District |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| Surface | FieldTurf |
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| Opened | 1957 |
| Renovated |
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Howard Wood Field is a stadium in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, constructed in 1957. [1] Holding 10,000 people, it is one of the premier football, soccer and track facilities in the region. Field turf was installed to replace the natural grass after a renovation project in 2003. [2]
Howard Wood Field is host to the Howard Wood Dakota Relays, an extended weekend of collegiate and High School track and field, and soccer competition. [3] Howard Wood Field served as host for the Bob Burns Dakota Bowl, an annual fundraiser for O'Gorman High School, which is a Catholic school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the event has now since moved to O'Gorman's Mac Field. [4] The Bob Burns Dakota Bowl is focused around a football game between O'Gorman High School and another team chosen on a year by year basis. Additionally, Howard Wood Field is also host to the President's Bowl football games. The President's Bowl serves as a fundraiser for extra curricular activities for the Sioux Falls, South Dakota public High Schools. From 1993 through 2006 over $1.3 million has been raised from this annual set of football games. The stadium also serves as host to other track events as well as marching band for competitions.
Howard Wood Field also serves as the home football stadium for all four Sioux Falls Public High Schools (Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Jefferson).
The Minnesota Vikings played their first game, an exhibition against the Dallas Cowboys on August 5, 1961, at Howard Wood Field. [5] Legendary local football coach, Bob Burns, promoted the game.
On September 26, 2007, Augustana College announced it would no longer call Howard Wood Field home, after a $6.1 million donation was given to allow the college to build an on-campus football facility, called the Kirkeby–Over Stadium. [6] The school played at Howard Wood Field from 1958 to 2008.
Sioux Falls is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 121st-most populous city in the United States. It is the county seat of Minnehaha County and also extends into northern Lincoln County to the south, which continues up to the Iowa state line. The population was 192,517 at the 2020 census, and in 2022, its estimated population was 202,078. According to city officials, the estimated population had grown to 213,891 as of early 2024. The Sioux Falls metro area accounts for more than 30% of the state's population. Chartered in 1856 on the banks of the Big Sioux River, the city is situated in the rolling hills at the junction of interstates 29 and 90.
Augustana University is a private Lutheran university in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The university identifies 1860 as the year of its founding, the same as its Rock Island, Illinois, Swedish-heritage sister school, Augustana College. It derives its name from the Confessio Augustana, or Augsburg Confession, a foundational document of Lutheranism. Until September 2015, the university was known as Augustana College.
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Kirkeby–Over Stadium is the football stadium of the Augustana University Vikings in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It is located on the Augustana campus. The stadium opened in 2009 and replaced Howard Wood Field as the home field for the football team. The stadium seats approximately 6,500, including 2,200 chairback seats, and has a FieldTurf surface in a bowl venue. Luxury suites, a spacious press box and private media booths are featured on the west side of the stadium. The facility also boasts high definition television monitors in each suite and plenty of connection options for use by media. Fans are also able to watch the action from grass berms in the end zones. In 2021, the original FieldTurf was torn out and replaced with brand new turf.
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The Augustana Vikings football team represents Augustana University in college football at the NCAA Division II level. The Vikings are members of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC), fielding its team in the NSIC since 2008. The Vikings play their home games at Kirkeby–Over Stadium in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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