Rubber Bowl Stadium Akron Ohio

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.

Rubber bowl stadium akron ohio.

Rubber bowl stadium of akron ohio hosted crowds of cheering football fans and concert goers for nearly seven decades. The akron rubber bowl has sat abandoned since the zips moved back on campus over 10 years ago. Abandoned rubber bowl football field akron ohio. The stadium that replaced rubber bowl was called infocision stadium summa field.

Abandoned football stadium akron. Construction began in january 2008 and the official opening of the new stadium took place in september 2009. The rubber bowl is an abandoned and partially demolished stadium located in akron ohio that was 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. The zips team moved to the new stadium and the rubber bowl came to be owned by a company based in canton ohio known as team1 marketing group inc.

May 15 2016. Once the home field of the akron zips it now lays abandoned. Our first stop on the second day of our akron trip was the rubber bowl football stadium.