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Goodwin Stadium first hosted the Sun Devils in the 1936 season, after the completion of its west side grandstand. The western portion was a [[Public Works Administration]] project, built at a total cost of $92,000. This first grandstand had room for 4,000 spectators.<ref name="thomas">Alfred Thomas, "A Documentary History of Arizona State University", Vol. 4, Part X: Buildings, 1960.</ref> The contractor for Goodwin Stadium was [[Del E. Webb Construction Company]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://delwebbsuncitiesmuseum.org/newsletters-webb-spinners/|title=Newsletters – "Webb Spinner" – Del Webb Sun Cities Museum|website=delwebbsuncitiesmuseum.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-13}}</ref> The engineer for Goodwin Stadium was L.M. Fitzhugh.

The eastern portion was built by the [[Works Progress Administration]] in 1940-411940–41. Designed by influential Phoenix architects [[Lescher & Mahoney]] (with [[Kemper Goodwin]] as one of the project's superintendents), it cost $87,500 to build and seated an additional 5,300. In 1946, to accommodate overwhelming growth in the university, a men's dormitory was added to the grandstand at a cost of $275,000.<ref name="thomas"/> The dormitory housed 88 men at normal capacity. The East stands also served as Haigler Hall, a men's dormitory. It was named after Charles Haigler, a member of the first football team at Tempe Normal School.

On June 3, 1964, [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] delivered an address at Goodwin Stadium, titled "Religious Witness for Human Dignity". The address was not noted in many biographies of King and was only found in 2013, when a woman discovered it along with reels from civil rights leader [[Lincoln Ragsdale]]'s radio show at a [[Goodwill Industries|Goodwill]] store.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The State Press|date=2014-02-03|accessdateaccess-date=2014-03-29|first=Emily|last=Mahoney|url=http://www.statepress.com/2014/02/03/asu-libraries-releases-lost-tape-of-martin-luther-king-jr-speech-at-the-university/|title=ASU Libraries releases lost tape of Martin Luther King Jr. speech at the University}}</ref> University president [[G. Homer Durham]], a member of [[Thethe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church), showed progressivism in inviting King to speak at the university, since the LDS Church did not fully recognize racial equality until 1978.