Akron Rubber Bowl Fire

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Akron rubber bowl fire.

Made obsolete by the newly built infocision stadium summa field in 2009 the rubber bowl now sits empty and rapidly decaying from age and vandalism. It was televised on espn. Current and former players and coaches were involved. The rubber bowl has also hosted around 1 500 football games for the high schools in akron as well as for ohio high school athletic association ohsaa playoff games.

800 george washington boulevard. The rubber bowl was also a regular performance venue. When the university took ownership of the stadium in 1971 they began holding rock concerts there starting in 1972 with the rolling stones. Akron ohio firefighters extinguished a fire monday evening near the city s old rubber bowl akron officials said.

After the game was finished a ceremony was held to look back over the 68 years that the stadium had been active. The ringling brothers and barnum bailey circus gave its first performance since the hartford circus fire on july 6 1944. The rubber bowl was a stadium located in akron ohio primarily used for american football from its opening in 1940 until 2008 it served as the home field of the akron zips football team of the university of akron prior to the opening of infocision stadium summa field throughout its history it has also hosted concerts professional football high school football and other events. The fire broke out monday near the old akron university football stadium around 4 45 p m.

The university of akron zips were its main tenant but the rubber bowl hosted over 1500 high school games. The akron zips football match against the buffalo bulls in november 2008 was the final game to be played at the rubber bowl stadium. Akron police say they re not ready for the loudfest 2015 dance and hip hop concert planned for friday at the rubber bowl vacant since 2009. Akron fire near rubber bowl stadium.

Rubber bowl stadium of akron ohio hosted crowds of cheering football fans and concert goers for nearly seven decades.