Worcester Oval

About Worcester Oval

Worcester Oval was a College Football stadium in Worcester, Massachusetts. It opened in 1891 and closed in 1961. Its last recorded capacity was 2,000. Its only tenant was Holy Cross Crusaders (College Football, 1897–1904). On our ranked lists it ranks 236th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

Appears in

• 236th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 118th shortest-lived of 142 football stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 90th 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.

The site today

• The site is now occupied by Saint George Orthodox Cathedral.

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): Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point).
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity.