Frank Youell Field was a
football stadium on the
west coast of the
United States , located in
Oakland, California . It was the home of the
Oakland Raiders of the
American Football League for four seasons, from
1962 through
1965 .
The stadium was a temporary home while Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum was being built; it seated 22,000 and cost $ 400,000 to build. The facility was named for Francis J. Youell (1883–1967), an Oakland undertaker , owner of the Chapel of the Oaks, Oakland City Councilman, and sports booster.
Frank Youell, the namesake of the Oakland Raiders temporary home from 1962 to 1965.
It was located at 900 Fallon Street, on the grounds of what is now part of Laney College , next to the channel which connects Lake Merritt to the Oakland Estuary and adjacent to the Nimitz Freeway . The site was formerly part of the "Auditorium Village Housing Project", one of several temporary housing tracts built by the federal government in the San Francisco Bay Area for the thousands of workers who poured into the region during World War II to work in war industries, especially, in shipyards such as the Kaiser Shipyards .
During their first two seasons, the Raiders played their home games in San Francisco , at Kezar Stadium (1960 ) and Candlestick Park (1960, 1961 ). They played their first regular season game at Frank Youell Field in 1962 on September 9 against the New York Titans and the Raiders lost, 28–17, the first of thirteen consecutive losses that season. The final game at the stadium in December 1965 was also against New York, renamed the Jets , and the Raiders won, 24–14.
Frank Youell Field remained in operation for several years and hosted some high school football games after the Raiders moved into the Coliseum in 1966; it was demolished in 1969 to make way for extra parking for Laney College.
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Early era:1920 –1940
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Wisconsin State Fair Park (Green Bay Packers)
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Post-War and Pre-Merger era:1941 –1969
Alumni Stadium (Boston Patriots)
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Busch Stadium (St. Louis Cardinals)
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Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium (Philadelphia Eagles, Phil-Pitt Steagles)
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Ebbets Field (Brooklyn Dodgers/Tigers)
Fenway Park (Boston Yanks, Boston Patriots)
Forbes Field (Pittsburgh Steelers, Phil-Pitt Steagles, Card-Pitt)
Frank Youell Field (Oakland Raiders)
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Griffith Stadium (Washington Redskins)
Harvard Stadium (Boston Patriots)
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Kansas City Municipal Stadium (Kansas City Chiefs)
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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles Rams, Los Angeles Chargers)
Metropolitan Stadium (Minnesota Vikings)
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Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum (Oakland Raiders)
Philadelphia Municipal Stadium (Philadelphia Eagles)
Pitt Stadium (Pittsburgh Steelers)
Polo Grounds (New York Giants, New York Bulldogs, New York Titans/Jets)
Rice Stadium (Houston Oilers)
Riverfront Stadium (Cincinnati Bengals)
San Diego Stadium (San Diego Chargers)
Shea Stadium (New York Jets)
Tulane Stadium (New Orleans Saints)
War Memorial Stadium (Buffalo Bills)
Wisconsin State Fair Park (Green Bay Packers)
Wrigley Field (Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals)
Yankee Stadium I (New York Yanks, New York Giants)
Current era:1970 –present Stadiums used by NFL teams temporarily
†= Team's stadium under construction or refurbishment at time 1 = A team used the stadium when their permanent stadium was unable to be used as a result of damage.