Clarke Hinkle Field is one of the two outdoor

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

practice facilities of the

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(the other being

Ray Nitschke Field Ray Nitschke Field is one of the two outdoor practice facilities of the Green Bay Packers (the other is Clarke Hinkle Field). These fields, together with the Don Hutson Center, comprise the team's training complex. The field is named for Ray Nits ...

). These fields, together with the

Don Hutson Center The Don Hutson Center is the indoor practice facility of the Green Bay Packers. Located across the street from Lambeau Field, it was built in 1994 at a cost of $4.7 million. The center is named after Don Hutson, who played for the Packers fro ...

, comprise the team's training complex. The field is named for

Clarke Hinkle William Clarke Hinkle (April 10, 1909 – November 9, 1988) was an American football player. He played on offense as a fullback, defense as a linebacker, and special teams as a kicker and punter. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame ...

, who played for the Packers from 1932 to 1941. Hinkle is a member of both the Pro Football and

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halls of fame. The field itself has been in use by the team since 1958, and was named for the former player in 1997. Clarke Hinkle Field has a sand-based natural turf surface, installed in 2005. The natural grass surface is reinforced with artificial fibers using the

Desso GrassMaster GrassMaster is a hybrid grass sports playing field surface composed of natural grass combined with artificial fibres. The method was developed and patented by Desso Sports from the Netherlands in 1993. This hybrid grass system is now marketed and ...

system. It was installed at Clarke Hinkle Field as a test for the turf problems that plagued

Lambeau Field Lambeau Field is an outdoor athletic stadium in the north central United States, located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The home field of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL), it opened in 1957 as City Stadium, replacing ...

in the later months of the season which proved successful, as Lambeau Field itself was sodded with the Desso GrassMaster system in 2007. The nearby outdoor

has an artificial FieldTurf surface, allowing the team to practice on surfaces used by the majority of NFL teams.

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