Old Oval

Opened in 1895

About Old Oval

Old Oval was a College Football stadium in City of Syracuse, New York. It opened in 1895, closed in 1907 and was demolished in 1929. Its only tenant was Syracuse Orange (College Football, 1895–1906). On our ranked lists it ranks 41st shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

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41st shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
11th shortest-lived of 142 football stadiums with known opening and closing years
6th shortest-lived of 110 College Football stadiums with known opening and closing years

Venue Information

Year Opened

1895

Year Closed

1907

Location

City of Syracuse, New York

Elevation

563 ft

172 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 Old Oval by team, 1895–1907. Bars use each team's colors at the time; the table below lists every season.

Team	League	Years
Syracuse Orange While based here: 12 seasons · 39-27-3 regular season · no postseason trips (postseason results on record for 1 of 12 seasons) College Football · 1895–1906 Independent 1895–1906 · Major College Territory map on ImperialismMap Home venue unknown 1891–1894 Old Oval 1895–1906 Archbold Stadium 1907–1979 JMA Wireless Dome 1980–present	College Football	1895–1906

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

When was Old Oval built?

Old Oval opened in 1895.

Where did the Syracuse Orange play after Old Oval?

After leaving Old Oval in 1906, the Syracuse Orange moved to Archbold Stadium in 1907. They played there until 1979.

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: 43.0376, -76.1340

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Nearby Venues

Venue	Years	Distance
Archbold Stadium	1907–1979	0.2 mi
JMA Wireless Dome	1980–	0.2 mi
Newell Park		0.8 mi
Upstate Medical University Arena	1951–	0.9 mi
Star Park		2.6 mi
State Fair Coliseum	1927–	5.0 mi

Straight-line distance between the venues' coordinates.

References

Teams on Wikipedia

Syracuse Orange

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