Northrop Field

About Northrop Field

Northrop Field was a College Football stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It closed in 1923. Its only tenant was Minnesota Golden Gophers (College Football, 1899–1923).

Photo of Northrop Field — Photo by The Blake School. License: Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Venue Information

Year Closed

1923

Location

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Elevation

829 ft

253 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 Northrop Field by team, 1899–1923. Bars use each team's colors at the time; the table below lists every season.

Team	League	Years
Minnesota Golden Gophers While based here: 25 seasons · 149-40-14 regular season · no postseason trips (postseason results on record for 10 of 25 seasons) College Football · 1899–1923 Big Ten Conference 1899–1923 · Major College Territory map on ImperialismMap Home venue unknown 1892–1898 Northrop Field 1899–1923 Memorial Stadium 1924–1981 Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome 1982–2008 Huntington Bank Stadium 2009–present	College Football	1899–1923

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

Where did the Minnesota Golden Gophers play after Northrop Field?

After leaving Northrop Field in 1923, the Minnesota Golden Gophers moved to Memorial Stadium in 1924. They played there until 1981.

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: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
Wikidata (CC0): Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point).
Wikimedia Commons (Public domain): Photograph.

Location

Coordinates: 44.9764, -93.2322

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Nearby Venues

Venue	Years	Distance
University of Minnesota Armory	1896–	Same site
Memorial Stadium	1924–1992	0.2 mi
Huntington Bank Stadium	2009–	0.4 mi
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome	1982–2014	1.3 mi
U.S. Bank Stadium	2016–	1.3 mi
Athletic Park	1889–1896	2.1 mi

Straight-line distance between the venues' coordinates.

References

Teams on Wikipedia

Minnesota Golden Gophers

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