Beaver Field

Opened in 1893

About Beaver Field

Beaver Field was a College Football stadium in State College, Pennsylvania. It opened in 1893 and closed in 1909. Its last recorded capacity was 500. Its only tenant was Penn State Nittany Lions (College Football, 1893–1908). On our ranked lists it ranks 48th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

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48th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
14th shortest-lived of 142 football stadiums with known opening and closing years
8th shortest-lived of 110 College Football stadiums with known opening and closing years

Venue Information

Capacity

500

Source: Wikipedia

Year Opened

1893

Year Closed

1909

Location

State College, Pennsylvania

Elevation

1,180 ft

360 m above sea level

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Teams

Home seasons at Beaver Field by team, 1893–1909. Bars use each team's colors at the time; the table below lists every season.

Team	League	Years
Penn State Nittany Lions While based here: 16 seasons · 71-54-4 regular season · no postseason trips (postseason results on record for 1 of 16 seasons) College Football · 1893–1908 Independent 1893–1908 · Major College Territory map on ImperialismMap Old Main Lawn 1888–1891 Home venue unknown 1892 Beaver Field 1893–1908 New Beaver Field 1909–1959 Beaver Stadium 1960–present	College Football	1893–1908

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the capacity of Beaver Field?

The capacity of Beaver Field is 500.

When was Beaver Field built?

Beaver Field opened in 1893.

Where did the Penn State Nittany Lions play after Beaver Field?

After leaving Beaver Field in 1908, the Penn State Nittany Lions moved to New Beaver Field in 1909. They played there until 1959.

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
VenueStats compilation: Coordinates (compiled by VenueStats; no outside source was kept for this point), Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity.

Location

Coordinates: 40.7990, -77.8631

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Nearby Venues

Venue	Years	Distance
Old Main Lawn		0.2 mi
New Beaver Field	1909–1959	0.4 mi
Beaver Stadium	1960–	1.0 mi
Columbia Park	1884–	36 mi
DeGol Field	2005–	45 mi

Straight-line distance between the venues' coordinates.

References

Teams on Wikipedia

Penn State Nittany Lions

Every source for the facts on this page is listed under Sources.