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3 unusual facts about Sam Boyd Stadium


Sam Boyd Stadium

The stadium is also used for high school football championship games, and at times regular-season high school games for Bishop Gorman High School.

Despite a roster featuring international superstar Eusébio, the Quicksilvers could only manage an 11–15 record and a 5th place finish in their division.

The tournament brings together 16 national teams from all 6 continents in rugby sevens as part of the IRB Sevens World Series.


2011 Maaco Bowl Las Vegas

The 2011 Maaco Bowl Las Vegas, the 20th edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on December 22, 2011 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, Nevada as part of the 2011–12 NCAA Bowl season.

2011 USA Sevens

The 2011 competition was held on February 12 and February 13 in the Las Vegas Valley's Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, Nevada.

Cashman Field

Cashman Field was also considered as the home stadium for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League starting in 2011; however, the team remained at Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney for that season's only home game.

North–South All-American Game

The game, played in 2002 and 2003 in Saint George, Utah (on the campus of Dixie State College of Utah at Hansen Stadium), was held at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada and renamed the Las Vegas All-American Classic, which matched a team of players from Division I-A and I-AA schools located east of the Mississippi River (who play as the "East" team) against players from schools located west of Mississippi (who play as the "West" team).


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