Shields-Watkins Field

About Shields-Watkins Field

Shields-Watkins Field is a former name of Neyland Stadium, used 1921–1961. Neyland Stadium is a College Football stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. It opened in 1921. It was designed by Bruce McCarty. It seats 102,455. Its current tenant is Tennessee Volunteers (College Football), since 1921. By capacity it ranks 5th of 241 current College Football venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 14th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use and 13th longest single tenancy (105 years) of the 100 longest on record.

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• 14th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 13th longest single tenancy (105 years) of the 100 longest on record
• 12th oldest of 267 football stadiums still in use
• 11th longest single tenancy (105 years) of the 100 longest on record in football stadiums

Venue Information

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.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

Teams

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.

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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 89 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.