A change is coming to the name around Georgia Tech’s football facility.
Tech has been in discussions regarding the potential sale of naming rights to the field at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field. The change was approved Tuesday by the Board of Regents to rename the stadium to Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field.
The stadium was known as Grant Field for many years after it was built in 1913. It remained that way until 1988, when the name of Bobby Dodd was added in honor of the legendary coach. Dodd compiled a 165-64-8 record from 1945-66. He served as Tech’s athletic director from 1951-76 and then worked as a consultant for the alumni association until his death in 1988 following a 57-year association with the school.
According to Tech, that name change was the first for the facility since it was named Hugh Inman Grant Field in 1914 after a gift from John W. Grant, a member of the school’s Board of Trustees. The Grant family gave the initial $15,000 used in 1913 to build the first permanent concrete stands on the west side of the field. In gratitude for the gift, trustees named the field Hugh Inman Grant Field in memory of Grant’s deceased son.
Hugh Inman Grant died in 1906 at age 10. He is a grandson of Hugh T. Inman, who owned the second Kimball House and is a great-grandson of W.D. Grant, who built the historic Grant Building in Atlanta.
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