As Akron turns 200, we want to hear readers' favorite memories of being or living in the city. ... Getting soft serve at Strickland's by the Rubber Bowl with my parents as a child.

The Akron RubberDucks are soon going to be back in the swing of things this spring, and the team needs locals to sing the national anthem at each home game. Skip to Navigation Skip to Main Content ...

The Akron City Series used its own playoff system to crown league football champions from 1942-1990. ... From 1948-1990, every league title game occurred on Turkey Day at the Rubber Bowl.

The Akron City Series used its own playoff system to crown league football champions from 1942-1990. ... From 1948-1990, every league title game occurred on Turkey Day at the Rubber Bowl.

The Akron City Series used its own playoff system to crown league football champions from 1942-1990. ... From 1948-1990, every league title game occurred on Turkey Day at the Rubber Bowl.

Harry Welch worked with Hollywood stars, but the 92-year-old Akron native's role with USC football in the 1953 Rose Bowl is his greatest claim to fame ...

Annually, Goodyear partners with artist Blake McFarland who uses end-of-life tires to create life-sized sculptures of the Cotton Bowl teams' mascots. Still, the tire maker contends, there's something ...

The University of Akron was founded in Akron in 1870. It offered the first classes in rubber chemistry. As of 2022, it had 10,378 graduate students.

A sign with the number of University of Akron football player Chris Angeloff hangs in the closed end of the Rubber Bowl in Akron in the Oct. 11, 2103 file photo. (Ed Suba Jr./Akron Beacon Journal) ...

The Rubber Bowl is a shell of its former self. The partially demolished, 35,000-seat stadium, ravaged by vandals and splattered with graffiti, looks like the ruins of some ancient amphitheater ...

More than 14,000 fans on Thanksgiving morning flocked to the Rubber Bowl to watch Akron's high school title game, but only 2,208 were present for the NFL contest, per the Beacon Journal.