On July 23, 2010, Prairie View A&M University officials announced plans to raise money for the construction of a new 15,000-seat football stadium and athletics fieldhouse, Panther Stadium, on the footprint of Blackshear Field. On January 23, 2015, the old stadium was demolished and construction began on the complex, which opened for the 2016 football season.[3]
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^McGinty, Ryan, ed. (2011). 2011 Media Guide(PDF). Prairie View A&M Department of Sports Information.
^Mather, Frank Lincoln (1915). "Who's who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent".
^"Prairie View A&M to Unveil New Stadium and Complex". Onnidan.com. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
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