Hale Stadium

Opened in 1953

About Hale Stadium

Hale Stadium is recorded as a College Football stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. It opened in 1953. Its recorded capacity is 10,000. Its only tenant was Tennessee State (College Football, 1972–1984, 2020).

Venue Information

Capacity

10,000

Source: Wikidata

Year Opened

1953

Address

3500 John A Merritt Boulevard, Nashville, Tennessee 37209

Elevation

454 ft

138 m above sea level

Address 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 Hale Stadium by team, 1953–2020. Bars use each team's colors at the time; the table below lists every season.

Team	League	Years
Tennessee State While based here: 12 seasons · 10-3-1 regular season in the 4 seasons with results on record · no postseason trips College Football · 1972–1984, 2020 Ohio Valley Conference 2020 · Independent 1972–1984 · FCS (Division I-AA) Hale Stadium 1972–1984 Nissan Stadium 2002–2019 Hale Stadium 2020 Nissan Stadium 2021–present	College Football	1972–1984, 2020

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.

Game results are on record only for top-division college football seasons; other seasons count toward seasons here but not toward the record.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the capacity of Hale Stadium?

The capacity of Hale Stadium is 10,000.

When was Hale Stadium built?

Hale Stadium opened in 1953.

Where did the Tennessee State play after Hale Stadium?

After leaving Hale Stadium in 2020, the Tennessee State moved to Nissan Stadium in 2021.

Sources

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

Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Address.
VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
Wikidata (CC0): Capacity, Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 6 m of this point).

Location

Coordinates: 36.1681, -86.8269

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Nearby Venues

Venue	Years	Distance
FirstBank Stadium	1922–	1.9 mi
Sulphur Dell	1885–1963	2.3 mi
Bridgestone Arena	1996–	2.8 mi
Nissan Stadium	1999–	3.1 mi
Johnny "Red" Floyd Stadium/Horace Jones Field	1933–	34 mi
Fortera Stadium	1946–	39 mi

Straight-line distance between the venues' coordinates.

References

Teams on Wikipedia

Tennessee State

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