The Bearcats navigated the challenges of a pandemic-altered year to finish an undefeated regular season inside an empty Nippert Stadium in 2020. The only way to top it was to make history.

With a permanent home atop the hill overlooking Cincinnati and a series of concrete seating sections lining Carson Field, Cincinnati football was charging into a new era as the sport’s popularity grew nationwide. ​

With a permanent home atop the hill overlooking Cincinnati and a series of concrete seating sections lining Carson Field, Cincinnati football was charging into a new era as the sport’s popularity grew nationwide. ​

With a permanent home atop the hill overlooking Cincinnati and a series of concrete seating sections lining Carson Field, Cincinnati football was charging into a new era as the sport’s popularity grew nationwide. ​

With a permanent home atop the hill overlooking Cincinnati and a series of concrete seating sections lining Carson Field, Cincinnati football was charging into a new era as the sport’s popularity grew nationwide. ​

With a permanent home atop the hill overlooking Cincinnati and a series of concrete seating sections lining Carson Field, Cincinnati football was charging into a new era as the sport’s popularity grew nationwide. ​

With a permanent home atop the hill overlooking Cincinnati and a series of concrete seating sections lining Carson Field, Cincinnati football was charging into a new era as the sport’s popularity grew nationwide. ​

With a permanent home atop the hill overlooking Cincinnati and a series of concrete seating sections lining Carson Field, Cincinnati football was charging into a new era as the sport’s popularity grew nationwide. ​

With a permanent home atop the hill overlooking Cincinnati and a series of concrete seating sections lining Carson Field, Cincinnati football was charging into a new era as the sport’s popularity grew nationwide. ​

With a permanent home atop the hill overlooking Cincinnati and a series of concrete seating sections lining Carson Field, Cincinnati football was charging into a new era as the sport’s popularity grew nationwide. ​

The 1920s The birth of a stadium 1920 – 1929 With a permanent home atop the hill overlooking Cincinnati and a series of concrete seating sections lining Carson Field, Cincinnati football was charging into a new era as the sport’s popularity grew nationwide.    The rapid expansion also brought...

Pre 1924 – Carson Field in Burnet Woods It was a farm, at first. A Scottish family was the first people of record to tame the land up the hill from Cincinnati in the early decades of the 1800s. In a 1901 Enquirer article published just after his death, Archibald Johnston recalled planting corn...