Palo Duro HS Class of 70: Dick Bivins Programs

Dick Bivins Stadium Programs

Table of Contents

1967 Football Season <~~ click to see programs

1967-09-09 Dumas Demons

1967-09-23 Caprock Longhorns

1967-11-11 Amarillo Golden Sandies

1968 Football Season <~~ click to see programs

1968-09-21 El Paso Irvin Rockets

1968-09-28 Caprock Longhorns

1968-10-04 Wichita Falls Rider Raiders

1968-10-11 Lubbock Westerners

1968-10-19 Lubbock Coronado Mustangs

1969-10-26 Tascosa Rebels

1968-11-02 Plainview Bulldogs

1968-11-09 Amarillo Golden Sandies

1969 Football Season <~~ click to see programs

#1 *1969-09-13 Dumas Demons 42-7

#2 1969-09-19 El Paso Irvin Rockets 40-12

#3 1969-09-27 Caprock Longhorns 56-0

#4 *1969-10-03 Wichita Falls Rider Raiders 40-20

#5 *1969-10-10 Lubbock Westerners 48-0

#6 *1969-10-17 Lubbock Coronado Mustangs 20-0

#7 1969-10-25 Tascosa Rebels 55-13

#8 1969-10-31 Plainview Bulldogs 30-14

#9 1969-11-15 Amarillo Golden Sandies 35-7

#10 1969-11-22 Abilene Cooper Cougars 0-17

* Astris denotes – not a Bivins stadium pgm. I thought the Plainview pgm is very well done. Notice the community pride and workmanship they put in theirs, especially page 17 😊

Notes

Dick Bivins stadium is named after Dick Bivins, Amarillo civic leader and nephew of Lee Bivins. It has the distinction of being the first stadium in the world to use the next-generation artificial turf surface FieldTurf (an artificial turf that closely resembles natural grass by using sand and rubber as an infill material), which it first installed in 1998.

Pioneer Lee Bivins arrived in the state in the early 1900s. By the time he died in 1929, he had become the largest individual cattle owner in the world and the largest landowner west of the Mississippi. The Mary E Bivins Library was housed for years on Polk St.

In 1905, cattle rancher Lee Bivins and his wife, Mary, built an enormous brick-and-stone home at 1000 S. Polk St. The Bivins family was highly influential in Amarillo’s first decades, and their three-story home immediately became one of the city’s grandest. After several years as a city commissioner, Lee Bivins was elected Amarillo’s mayor in 1925. At the time, he owned more than a million acres of land, had struck oil and gas, and was speculated to be the largest individual cattle operator in the world. He was still in office when he died of a heart attack in 1929. Following her husband’s death, Mary E. Bivins lived in the house until her passing on Dec. 31, 1951. The family then donated the property to the City of Amarillo to become the Mary E. Bivins Memorial Library, operating there from 1955 until 1976. Today the historic building is home to the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce, Center City of Amarillo, and other community organizations.