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Ray Dennison Memorial Field (athletic stadium)

This plaque is on a rock outside the far/north end of the stadium that was dedicated on October 29, 1960 (at a game with Eastern Arizona Junior College) to the memory of Ray Dennison (1929-1955), an agriculture major at Fort Lewis College.  Mr. Dennison died as a result of an injury in a varsity football game in Trinidad, Colorado.  The bowl for the field was cut from a natural depression in 1955-56 by the Burnett Construction Company.  Construction began in the summer of 1958; the first football  games were played on the field in the fall of 1959.  Scroll down or click here to view the dedication program.

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