It was located on the main campus of The Catholic University of America, next to Brookland Gymnasium (today's Edward M. Crough Center for Architectural Studies), in the area now occupied by the Columbus School of Law and the Law School Lawn.
In the early 1920s, Rector Thomas Joseph Shahan was the biggest booster for the new stadium, saying he expected "the finished Bowl would be our chief financial asset".
On September 30, 1924, Boston College's student newspaper The Heights wrote:[1] The completion of Catholic University's new Stadium, which will accommodate 30,000 people, signalizes the venture of the Brookland institution into a higher plane of college athletics than that school has heretofore known.
Holy Cross will be met in football this season, and Notre Dame's appearance on the Brookland gridiron in 1925 is practically assured.The stadium was dedicated on October 4, 1924, with a game against the Quantico Marines Devil Dogs,[4] with President Calvin Coolidge in attendance, to become the new home of the Catholic University Cardinals football team.
On October 29, 1983, Brookland Stadium hosted the last important football game with a victory of the Cardinals over the Georgetown Hoyas in the nation's capital own Holy War for the Steven Dean Memorial Trophy.