PENNINGTON FIELD "The Stadium for All Seasons"

Pennington Field is named in honor of former L. D. Bell High School Coach Fred Pennington.  Coach Pennington began his Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District coaching career in the spring of 1959.  He took a team that was 2-8 in the fall of 1958 and turned it into an 8-2 team in 1959.  Coach Pennington died of electrocution in the summer of 1960 at his pool.  Bell High School was then located on the corner of Raider and Pipeline.  The football field behind the school was named for Fred Pennington after his death.  In the fall of 1987, the current Pennington Field Stadium, owned and operated by the Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD, was opened. 

Pennington Field is located between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, two miles from the south entrance of DFW International Airport on Airport Freeway and Central Drive in Bedford, Texas.  It was built as a multipurpose Stadium with two gymnasiums, one for gymnastics and the other for meetings. The football field is also utilized as a soccer field.  Pennington Field has been honored as the most used stadium in the State of Texas.  With a seating capacity of 12,500, the Stadium has been called the "Star of Stadiums" by the Fort Worth Star Telegram and was named in an article as one of the "Best Places To See A High School Football Game."  Others throughout the State of Texas refer to Pennington Field as the place to play or watch a high school football game. The priority use of Pennington Field is for the students enrolled in the Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD.  L. D. Bell and Trinity High Schools play their football and soccer games at the stadium. The seventh, eighth, and ninth grades of the five junior highs in the school district also utilize the field. The Hoot Smith Student Activity Center is used by the gymnastics teams of both high schools and the five junior highs.  Motor development classes also use the Activity Center for preschool day programs and age-group night programs.  The Activity Center was named in honor of Hulin "Hoot" Smith, the first and now former Athletic Director of the school district.