State Field

Opened in 1893

About State Field

State Field was a College Football stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It opened in 1893 and closed in 1924. Its only tenant was LSU Tigers (College Football, 1902–1923). On our ranked lists it ranks 113th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

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113th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
41st shortest-lived of 142 football stadiums with known opening and closing years
32nd shortest-lived of 110 College Football stadiums with known opening and closing years

Venue Information

Year Opened

1893

Year Closed

1924

Location

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Elevation

55 ft

17 m above sea level

Operator

Louisiana State University

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.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

Teams

Home seasons at State Field by team, 1893–1924. Bars use each team's colors at the time; the table below lists every season.

Team	League	Years
LSU Tigers While based here: 20 seasons · 94-57-10 regular season · no postseason trips (postseason results on record for 8 of 20 seasons) College Football · 1902–1923 Southern 1922–1923 · Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association 1902–1921 · Major College Territory map on ImperialismMap State Field 1902–1923 Tiger Stadium 1924–present	College Football	1902–1923

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.