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It is used for American football, and is the home field for the Houston Christian Huskies football team. The stadium is located near the corner of Beechnut and Fondren. Initial capacity is 5,000 with future construction phases to increase capacity.
The Chartiers-Houston School District covers the Borough of Houston and Chartiers Township in Washington County, Pennsylvania. The district operates Chartiers-Houston Jr/Sr High School (7th-12th) and Allison Park Elementary School (K-6th). Named for Peter Chartier (1690—1759) who established a trading post in the area in 1743.
The Chartiers-Houston School District services the educational needs of the Township in addition to the residents of Houston Borough. Chartiers Township can be categorized as primarily a residential and agricultural community. Many seek rural parcels in the Township for the keeping of private horses, and farming is still a viable enterprise.
After the Chartiers Valley Railroad was completed through that section in 1871, David C. Houston, a son of Daniel Houston, saw the possibilities of a town at that point and laid out the present plan of Houstonville. The first house in the new town was completed in the summer of 1871 by A. T. Haft and the second by J. C. Johnson.
The University of Houston continued to host home football games there from 1946 to 1950 before moving to Houston Stadium in 1951 and then to the Astrodome in 1965. Prior to the 1957 football season, HISD changed policy at the stadium to disallow any teams with black students to play there despite this being previously allowed without issue. [ 7 ]
Chartiers Branch, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, followed Chartiers Creek Chartiers Run (Allegheny River) , a tributary of the Allegheny River Chartier's Old Town , a former trading post named after Pierre Chartiers ; was sited on present-day Tarentum, Pennsylvania
Houston won sixteen straight football games at TDECU Stadium from 2014 to 2017, including four wins over ranked opponents. This was the longest active home winning streak in the nation at the time. [58] The 2015 Houston Cougar football team finished a perfect 8–0 at home, and the 2016 team
The stadium hosted the Houston Bowl before the Texas Bowl's inception and also hosted both the 2002 and 2005 Big 12 Championship Games. The 2005 game featured Houston native Vince Young at quarterback for the University of Texas at Austin and led the Longhorns to a 70–3 rout of the University of Colorado in front of 71,107. [49]