Veterans Memorial Stadium

About Veterans Memorial Stadium

Veterans Memorial Stadium is a former name of Veterans Memorial Stadium, Larry Blakeney Field, used 1950–2002. Veterans Memorial Stadium, Larry Blakeney Field is a College Football stadium in Troy, Alabama. It opened in 1950. It was designed by Populous. It seats 30,470. Its current tenant is Troy Trojans (College Football), since 1977. By capacity it ranks 101st of 256 current College Football venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 91st oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use and 59th for most name changes among 125 venues with 3 or more names. It has also been known as Movie Gallery Stadium (2003–2009).

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• 91st oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 59th for most name changes among 125 venues with 3 or more names
• 89th oldest of 281 football stadiums still in use
• 29th for most name changes among 71 football stadiums with 3 or more names
• 21st for most name changes among 57 College Football stadiums with 3 or more names

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.

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.

Game results are on record only for top-division college football seasons; other seasons count toward seasons here but not toward the record.

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