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However, after massive rules violations resulted in the NCAA handing down the "death penalty" in 1987, SMU officials decided to move football games back to a heavily renovated Ownby Stadium. From 1976 to 1979 the chief tenant at Ownby was the Dallas Tornado of the North American Soccer League .
The stadium is named after Gerald J. Ford, a billionaire banker who provided most of the funding for its construction. [4]Outside the northeast corner of the stadium is Doak Walker Plaza, honoring the former Heisman Trophy winner and SMU's greatest football star.
This was the final season SMU played home games at Ownby Stadium, although the Mustangs moved their home game with Houston to the nearby Cotton Bowl. The scheduled home game with Texas A&M was shifted to the Alamodome in San Antonio for a guarantee of the gate; most of the crowd of over 51,000 wore the Aggies' Maroon and White.
The Southern Methodist University football scandal occurred in 1987 when the SMU Mustangs football program was investigated ... Games were moved to Ownby Stadium, a ...
The 2025 SMU Mustangs football team will represent Southern Methodist University (SMU) as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They are led by Rhett Lashlee in his fourth year as head coach. The Mustangs will play their home games at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas, Texas.
The 1991 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University (SMU) as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1991 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by first-year head coach Tom Rossley , the Mustangs compiled an overall record of 1–10 with a mark of 0–8 in conference play, placing last out of nine teams ...
The 1938 SMU Mustangs football team was an American football team that ... The team played its home games at Ownby Stadium in University Park, Texas, and the Cotton ...
The 1932 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University (SMU) as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1932 college football season. Led by 13th-year head coach Ray Morrison , the Mustangs compiled an overall record of 3–7–2 with a mark of 1–4–1 in conference play, tying for fifth place in the SWC.