Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium at the University of Texas

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JOE JAMAIL FIELD

In 1997, The University of Texas named the playing field at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium in honor of Joe Jamail, who completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at UT in 1950, after serving in World War II. Jamail went to law school at Rice University and moved back to Austin where he became the wealthiest practicing attorney in America. Joe Jamail made many large gifts to the University of Texas, most notably a $15 million dollar gift in 2008 to support the law school, nursing school, and college of undergraduate studies. This same year, fourteen stadium suites were added to the west side of the stadium and the total capacity at this time increased to 75,512.

Joe Jamail and Darrell K Royal stand on the sidelines of a University of Texas football game and pose for a photo together by holding up the hook em hand gesture.
Image credit: Joe Jamail and Darrell K Royal, Texas Athletics Photo Collection at The Stark Center
The Texas Longhorn football team, wearing burnt orange jerseys, run out of the South end zone tunnel underneath big letters that read, "Joe Jamail Field."
Image credit: Texas Athletics Photo Collection at The Stark Center
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