Private Schools W/ Stadium but W/O Football

[Model Citizen]

DFW HOYA’s thread on largest schools w/o football got me thinking about this.

I’m listing only those private D-I schools with football stadiums already in place.

UOP (Pacific)
Santa Clara
Evansville—would need stadium remodified, since it has been customized for soccer.
Detroit Mercy

Left off my list are maac/nec schools that have dropped the sport recently…and Marquette, which is not bringing back football at a varsity level.

Others?

[Model Citizen]

Almost forgot St. Mary's...also dropped football recently.

[RadMann]

The University of Chicago which won seven Big Ten Conference titles and one national championship (undefeated against Notre Dame) discontinued football in 1939. They also had a Heisman Trophy winner. They brought back a club team in recent years, now division III.

Below is their original Stadium (Old Stagg Filed) - capacity 50,000, but since demolished:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/StaggField.JPG

Some trivia....

[Husky Alum]

Nickerson Field at Boston University still stands, is used for Terrier soccer, and lacrosse - it hosted the 2007 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championships.

Nickerson stands where Braves Field (former home of the Braves and Red Sox) once was - the home stands were the right field pavilion, I believe.

[crunifan]

University of Evansville

They have McCutchan Stadium which was originally built for Purple Aces football, but after UE dropped football several years ago it become their soccer only stadium.

It's a public school, but fellow MVC school Wichita State has a 30,000 seat football stadium on it's campus.

[GeeWiz]

Nickerson Field at Boston University still stands, is used for Terrier soccer, and lacrosse - it hosted the 2007 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championships.

Nickerson stands where Braves Field (former home of the Braves and Red Sox) once was - the home stands were the right field pavilion, I believe.

Boy I wish NU had this facility on our campus ...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/BUNickersonFldStands.jpg/800px-BUNickersonFldStands.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/Braves_Field_and_Nickerson_Field.JPG

[FCS Preview]

Nickerson Field at Boston University still stands, is used for Terrier soccer, and lacrosse - it hosted the 2007 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championships.

Nickerson stands where Braves Field (former home of the Braves and Red Sox) once was - the home stands were the right field pavilion, I believe.

Braves Field was not the home of the Red Sox. Maybe they played some games there? But their home fields were:

Huntington Avenue Grounds, 1901-1911 (http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/american/huntin.htm)

Fenway Park, 1912-current.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/attend.shtml

[AppChicago]

The University of Chicago which won seven Big Ten Conference titles and one national championship (undefeated against Notre Dame) discontinued football in 1939. They also had a Heisman Trophy winner. They brought back a club team in recent years, now division III.

Below is their original Stadium (Old Stagg Filed) - capacity 50,000, but since demolished:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/StaggField.JPG

Some trivia....

And what did they build on that land? A library. Some schools have NO sense of priorities. :) 81 Nobel Laureates? That's NOTHIN!

More trivia: That stadium? Home of the first self-sustained nuclear reaction ever achieved by scientists.

[UAalum72]

I’m listing only those private D-I schools with football stadiums already in place.


Mount St. Mary's (dropped football in 1951) has a soccer stadium

However


Left off my list are maac/nec schools that have dropped the sport recently…

No Northeast Conference member has dropped football since the league was formed (except the Big East's St. John's affiliation in the two years after and before it was in the MAAC) - PLEASE stop lumping the NEC together with the football-defunct MAAC.

[ngineer]

U of Chicago does have football, as pointed out earlier in D-III. Their current stadium, I think, is still named Stagg Field. I say that only because I was dating a girl at UC,in the mid-1970's, and I recall in the late summer the student had an outdoor movie festival at night in the football stadium and they were called..I kid you not.."Stagg Flicks".xnodx

[DFW HOYA]

DFW HOYA’s thread on largest schools w/o football got me thinking about this.

I’m listing only those private D-I schools with football stadiums already in place.
UOP (Pacific)
Santa Clara
Evansville—would need stadium remodified, since it has been customized for soccer.
Detroit Mercy

Left off my list are maac/nec schools that have dropped the sport recently…and Marquette, which is not bringing back football at a varsity level.

Others?

Creighton
Fairfield
Lamar
New Orleans
St. John's
UT-Arlington (built a year before dropping the sport)
Wichita St.

[DFW HOYA]

DFW HOYA’s thread on largest schools w/o football got me thinking about this.

I’m listing only those private D-I schools with football stadiums already in place.

UOP (Pacific)
Santa Clara
Evansville—would need stadium remodified, since it has been customized for soccer.
Detroit Mercy

Left off my list are maac/nec schools that have dropped the sport recently…and Marquette, which is not bringing back football at a varsity level.

Others?

Creighton
Fairfield
Lamar
New Orleans
St. John's
Texas-Arlington
Wichita St.

[Model Citizen]

Creighton
Fairfield
Lamar
New Orleans
St. John's
UT-Arlington (built a year before dropping the sport)
Wichita St.


Creighton is the only one of these that qualifies. They have a high school stadium next door—its land was actually donated by Creighton. Like, here you go…build a stadium. WE won’t be playing football again.

[BloomHusky'01]

Lasalle would be the most recent to join this club. They dropped football effective 11/19/2007.

[Ronbo]

Gonzaga University. Spokane, Washington.

Joe Albi Stadium, 28,646

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/north_america/united_states/washington/spokane_albi2.jpg

[terrierbob]

Gonzaga University. Spokane, Washington.

Joe Albi Stadium, 28,646

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/north_america/united_states/washington/spokane_albi2.jpg

Sure looks like a FB stadium. Did they ever have football?

[FCS Preview]

Sure looks like a FB stadium. Did they ever have football?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzaga_University


Like many smaller private universities, Gonzaga discontinued its football program during World War II, due to declining enrollment, but not before producing two Pro Football Hall of Famers: Tony Canadeo '41 of the Green Bay Packers, and Ray Flaherty '26, a coach of the Washington Redskins. The final season of Gonzaga football was 1941. Efforts to restart the program in 1946 were unsuccessful, and the football stadium was slowly torn down in 1949.

[Model Citizen]

Yes, they had football. However, I don't believe Gonzaga owns that stadium. They tore theirs down years ago.

[Ronbo]

I think they dropped football during WWII. Our last game with them was 1941 and Eastern Washington's last game was 1941. They had football from 1908 to 1941 it looks like. Doesn't matter that the City owns the stadium, if they started football back up that's where they would play.

[Ronbo]

University of Pacific. Stockton, Ca.

Amos A. Stagg Bowl 30,000

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/north_america/united_states/california/stockton_stagg.jpg

[Ronbo]

UC Santa Barbara

Harder Stadium, 17,000

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/north_america/united_states/california/santa_barbara_harder.jpg

[Ronbo]

CSU Bakersfield is moving to Division I. If they start up football and join the Great West they can play at Memorial Stadium in Bakersfield. 20,000. Football is huge in Bakersfield, similar to Fresno for size and distance to any other Div. I football.

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/north_america/united_states/california/bakersfield_memorial1.jpg

[Ronbo]

Santa Clara has a fan move on to restart Football. Santa Clara was a very good Football team in the past and even though they have a 7000 seat stadium on campus they played at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco to accomodate attendance.

Another good candidate for the Great West.

http://www.letthemplay.com/ltpf.htm

[Model Citizen]

Santa Clara only played at Kezar for the "Little Big Game" against St. Mary's. They played most games on campus.

[DFW HOYA]

Santa Clara only played at Kezar for the "Little Big Game" against St. Mary's. They played most games on campus.

Of course, Kezar isn't what it used to be.

The 59,000 seat stadium suffered structural damage in the 1989 earthquake and was radically downsized to 10,000 seats thereafter. Still, it would still make a nice stadium once some SF area team figured out to sponsor football.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

DFW HOYA’s thread on largest schools w/o football got me thinking about this.

I’m listing only those private D-I schools with football stadiums already in place.

UOP (Pacific)
Santa Clara
Evansville—would need stadium remodified, since it has been customized for soccer.
Detroit Mercy

Left off my list are maac/nec schools that have dropped the sport recently…and Marquette, which is not bringing back football at a varsity level.

Others?

I think Detroit Mercy and Evansville were considering sponsoring non-scholly football....

And Braves field never hosted the Red Sox, they hosted the Boston Braves... (hence the name... :) )

[Model Citizen]

Of course, Kezar isn't what it used to be.

True. The city operates the stadium for high school football (grass surface). I can't see USF getting access to it at this point, much less taking a third try with football.

With real estate prices as high as they are in SF, I think the any Bay Area school would need to use an existing facility.

[UAalum72]

And Braves field never hosted the Red Sox, they hosted the Boston Braves... (hence the name... :) )
Not regularly, but per the Red Sox :
"Even after the Sox made Fenway their home, they didn't always play their games there. Occasionally, the Red Sox scheduled their "big games" at Braves Field to accommodate larger crowds — like those that were over 42,000 strong for Games Three and Four of the 1915 World Series."

[GeauxColonels]

Creighton
Fairfield
Lamar
New Orleans
St. John's
UT-Arlington (built a year before dropping the sport)
Wichita St.
New Orleans is not private, nor does it have a football stadium on campus.

[gt_bison]

UC Santa Barbara

Harder Stadium, 17,000

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/north_america/united_states/california/santa_barbara_harder.jpg

My undergraduate advisor was a PhD student at UCSB when they dropped football. It's a really funny story. The graduate students were tired of paying for football, so they called for a referendum to discontinue it. Apparently the undergrads were so apathetic about football that few of them voted, and the program was shut down quite easily.

[DFW HOYA]

New Orleans is not private, nor does it have a football stadium on campus.

The list also included state schools such as UNO, Lamar, and Wichita St.

Tad Gormley Stadium is adjacent to City Park, which isn't far from UNO's Lakefront campus.