the cougars played their entire home schedule for the 1970 and 1971 football seasons at joe albi stadium in spokane. the fire also displaced the idaho vandals, whose wooden neale stadium was condemned before the 1969 season (and set afire by arson that november). the vandals had used wsu's rogers field for its three palouse home games in 1969 and were planning to use it again in for four home games in 1970. without another suitable stadium in the moscow-pullman vicinity, idaho played its 1970 home schedule at the reduced capacity rogers field, returning to its moscow campus in october 1971. the 1970 wsu-idaho game in spokane on september 19 was dubbed "the displaced bowl", and was easily won by the cougars, their only victory of the season.