Brookland Stadium
| Location | Washington, D.C. |
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| Owner | Catholic University |
| Operator | Catholic University |
| Capacity | 30,000 |
| Surface | Grass |
| Opened | 1924 |
| Closed | 1985 |
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Catholic University Washington Darts |
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Brookland Stadium, or Killion Field, was the athletic field for Catholic University in Brookland, Washington, D.C.. from 1924 to 1985. It was located on the main campus of The Catholic University of America, next to Brookland Gymnasium (today's Edward M. Crough Center for Architectural Studies), in the area now occupied by the Columbus School of Law and the Law School Lawn.
Primarily used for college football, it was also a baseball and soccer stadium. It hosted the second leg of the 1970 NASL Final between the Rochester Lancers and the Washington Darts.
In the early 1920s Rector Thomas Joseph Shahan was the biggest booster for the new stadium, saying he expected "the finished Bowl would be our chief finantial asset". On May 26, 1923, ground was broken. Engineering professor Louis Crook served as the stadium's planner.
On September 30, 1924, Boston College's student newspaper The Heights wrote:
The completion of Catholic University's new Stadium, which will accommodate 30,000 people, signalizes the venture of the Brookland institution into a higher plane of college athletics than that school has heretofore known.
Catholic University plans to take its place in the athletic world among the foremost colleges of the East. Everything points to the ultimate admission of Catholic University into the Jesuit College circuit, composed of Georgetown, Boston College, Holy Cross and Fordham. Maybe not for a year or two, but it is highly probable that before many years roll by Catholic University will become a member of that select circle in which the rivalry is so intense and the competition of the highest order.
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