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| Full name | Eldon Fix Track and Fred Wilson Field at Griswold Stadium |
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| Location | Portland, Oregon |
| Coordinates | 45°27′08″N122°40′19″W / 45.452123°N 122.672052°W Coordinates: 45°27′08″N122°40′19″W / 45.452123°N 122.672052°W |
| Owner | Lewis & Clark College |
| Capacity | 3,500 |
| Surface | AstroTurf GameDay Grass 3D |
| Scoreboard | east endzone |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 1952 |
| Built | 1953 |
| Renovated | 1999, 2003, 2012 |
| Construction cost | US$25,000 (1953) |
| Tenants | |
| Lewis & Clark Pioneers football team (1955–present) | |
Griswold Stadium is an American football and soccer stadium which serves as the home of the Lewis & Clark Pioneers football and soccer teams. It is located in Portland, Oregon, featuring an AstroTurf field and a seating capacity of 3,500. It has hosted track and field events as well. The land that the stadium sits on was forested before it was built. In 1952, Graham Griswold donated US$25,000 and lumber towards the erection of a new football stadium, complete with grandstands. The first game that occurred at the stadium took place on October 10, 1953, with Lewis & Clark against the Linfield Wildcats football team. It was officially named "Griswold Stadium" in 1954 after the benefactor of the construction project. In 2003, lights were installed at Griswold Stadium allowing for night games. The AstroTurf (GameDay Grass 3D brand) playing surface was purchased for the field in 2010. The school dedicated the field to former player and coach Fred Wilson that year. Located in the stadium is the Eldon Fix Track which was last resurfaced in 1999. In 2012, the grandstands were rebuilt to allow for 3,000 general admission seats and 500 VIP seats. [1] In 1955, the Oregon state high school cross country championships took place at Griswold Stadium. [2]
American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, which is the team controlling the oval-shaped football, attempts to advance down the field by running with or passing the ball, while the defense, which is the team without control of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and aims to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, and otherwise they turn over the football to the defense; if the offense succeeds in advancing ten yards or more, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponent's goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins.
The Lewis & Clark Pioneers football team is the college football team of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. The team competes in the Northwest Conference in NCAA Division III and plays its home games on campus at Griswold Stadium. The current head coach is Jay Locey, who began his tenure in 2015; he was preceded by Chris Sulages.
Portland is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is a major port in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. As of 2017, Portland had an estimated population of 647,805, making it the 26th-largest city in the United States, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest. Approximately 2.4 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous MSA in the United States. Its Combined Statistical Area (CSA) ranks 18th-largest with a population of around 3.2 million. Approximately 60% of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area.
