Football | 11/2/2016 6:35:00 PM
By RON HADFIELD
Assistant VP for University Communication | Editor, ACU Today Magazine
ABILENE – I was not born around these parts, and have no natural affinity for P.E. Shotwell Stadium, whose namesake was Prince Elmer Shotwell, also known as "Pete," a Texas football-coaching legend.
Shotwell looks like other mostly concrete high school gridiron venues I have seen before in Texas. It also has a certain charm about it, and some engineering features not everyone has seen, like a restroom with a strategically placed window down the hall in the press box, allowing 99.9 percent privacy as well as a fine view of the game below. Say what? It's hard to explain but one need not worry about answering the call of nature and missing a play.
I am one of the fortunate fellows invited to help staff the press box at home ACU football games, a privileged view of the action I don't take for granted. It's not really a box and not everyone present is a member of the press, but there is no cheering in this upper room, at least in the professional press boxes at Shotwell run through the years by ACU sports media icons
Lance Fleming and his Hall of Fame predecessor, Garner Roberts, who help keep the statistics team running smoothly and media guests happy.
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