As well as being the home of the Pasco High Bulldogs for sports and Chiawana High Riverhawks for football, the stadium is home to the Pasco Invitational, the nation's oldest high school track-and-field single-day competition, and the largest single day track-and-field competition of any kind, which is always held on the first weekend of April.

As Pasco grew, citizens considered the gravel pit to be an eyesore that did not fit with the expanding city.

Up until an hour and a half before the game started, school superintendent Herman Haeger feared the stadium would not be ready as only three of the six towers of lights functioned properly.

[3] In 2002, a voter-approved bond issue funded a major renovation of the stadium, which included the partial-demolition of the former Emerson Elementary which was transformed into a Boys & Girls Club.

[1][2] Brown died and was buried during the spring of 1957[5] before the stadium hosted its first event on September 13 of the same year.