Cramton Bowl is a 21,000-seat stadium located near downtown Montgomery. Cramton Bowl opened in 1922 as a baseball stadium and has been home to major league baseball spring training, and to minor league baseball. Today, however, its primary use is football. It is the host of the annual Camellia Bowl for the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, and Montgomery's five high school squads. It was home to the Blue-Gray Football Classic, an all-star game usually played on Christmas Day, the Alabama State Hornets football team, and hosted the first ever football game played under the lights in the South.
Cramton Bowl is named for F.J. Cramton, who donated the land on which the stadium is built. The location was originally a sanitary landfill. In mid-2010 the City of Montgomery approved a measure for the renovation and addition to Cramton Bowl. The plans for Cramton Bowl included a unique mix of the old and the new. The current structure was revamped with updated entrances, a state-of-the-art press box, an aesthetically enhanced plaza area. Perhaps the most important and impressive addition is the 90,000-square-foot multi-purpose sports facility. Cramton Bowl will be home to a new college football showdown, the Montgomery Kickoff Classic, set for Saturday, August 26, 2017.
