page_title: Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field
section_title: Hartford Colonials
hierarchical_section_title: Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field / Hartford Colonials
caption_attribution_description: en:Scoreboard at Rentschler Field, home of en:Connecticut Huskies football.
context_page_description: Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field is a stadium in East Hartford, Connecticut. It is primarily used for football and soccer, and is the home field of the University of Connecticut Huskies. It may also host the Connecticut Underground of the Freedom Football League; in the fall of 2010, it was home to the Hartford Colonials of the United Football League. The stadium, which opened in 2003, was the first stadium used primarily by an NCAA Division I-A team to open in the 21st century. The permanent stadium capacity is 40,000, consisting of 38,066 permanent seats with a standing-room area in the scoreboard plaza that can accommodate up to 1,934 people. It also has a game day capability to add approximately 2,000 temporary seats as it did for UConn
  football vs. Michigan in 2013. Connecticut played on campus at Memorial Stadium in Storrs, before 2003.
  Rentschler Field was originally the name of the company airfield for Pratt & Whitney that formerly occupied the site. The airfield, which began operations in 1931, was named after Frederick Rentschler, who founded Pratt & Whitney in 1925 and also founded its parent company, United Technologies.
context_section_description: The Hartford Colonials were a United Football League team that played their home games at Rentschler Field. During their (2010 UFL season), the Colonials played all four home games at Rentschler, after having played one there the previous season while they were known as the New York Sentinels. Attendance at Colonials games averaged a consistent 15,000 people, third place in the five-team league behind Omaha and Sacramento. The UFL suspended the Colonials franchise in 2011 and the franchise was officially terminated when the team's former owner (Bill Mayer) was named as the new owner of the Virginia Destroyers.
caption: Rentschler Field scoreboard in 2010 (Replaced with $1.7 mil, 28 ft X 73 ft w/ 15 HD pixel board in 2013)
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