On Oct. 26, 1930 the Southern Methodist University Mustangs took the field against the Indiana Hoosiers in the first football game ever played in the brand new Cotton Bowl in Dallas Fair Park. The new stadium could hold 46,000 cheering fans–three times as many as the old Fair Park Stadium that had occupied the site since 1921. As they inaugurated a classic Texas landmark, perhaps it’s fitting that SMU won the game 27-0.