Team officials attended a meeting of the San Leandro Chamber of Commerce to look at playing games at a site in that town until a more permanent facility could be built in Oakland. Team owner Robert Osborne and assistant general manager Bud Hastings represented the Raiders at the meeting, which also included members of the San Leandro Board of Education.

The site in question was the campus of the recently built Pacific High School. The field, as currently configured, only had 500 seats but the team said it could be expanded to 20,000.