Veterans Field

About Veterans Field

Veterans Field is a former name of Cessna Stadium, used 1946–1968. Cessna Stadium was a College Football stadium in Wichita, Kansas. It opened in 1946 and closed in 2023. Its last recorded capacity was 31,500. Its only tenant was Wichita State (College Football, 1946–1986). On our ranked lists it ranks 252nd shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

Appears in

• 252nd shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 128th shortest-lived of 142 football stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 99th shortest-lived of 110 College Football stadiums with known opening and closing years

Venue Information

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.

The site today

• The building still stands as Cessna Stadium.

From OpenStreetMap data near the venue's recorded coordinates, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Maps show what is there now, not the old footprint.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

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

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap (ODbL): What stands on the site today.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• 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 0 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.