 It opened on September 20, 1975 (with a win against Air Force), and with hillside tickets it officially has 61,500 seats.The current record for single-game attendance, 61,500, was set on September 5, 2015 when the Cyclones played Northern Iowa.In 1997, the stadium was named in honor of Jack Trice, ISU's first African American athlete and the school's first athletics-related fatality.