McGee Field

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McGee Field at Harris Stadium
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McGee Field
Full nameBenjamin Humphreys McGee Field at Eugene O. Harris Stadium
Former namesHardee Field (–1977)
Address Sewanee, TN
U.S.
Owner Sewanee University
OperatorSewanee Athletics
Type Stadium
Current use American football
Lacrosse
Track and field
OpenedNovember 1891;133 years ago (1891-11)
Tenants
Sewanee Tigers (NCAA) teams:
football, lacrosse, track and field
Website
sewaneetigers.com/mcgee-field

McGee Field at Harris Stadium (officially Benjamin Humphreys McGee Field at Eugene O. Harris Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium located on the campus of Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The venue serves as home of the Sewanee Tigers football, lacrosse, and track and field teams.

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It was dedicated as "McGee Field" at homecoming on October 22, 1977. Before then the stadium was known as "Hardee Field", named for Lt. General William J. Hardee of the Confederate States of America. Thus sometimes the field is also called "Hardee-McGee Field". McGee Field is the oldest stadium in the South still in use. [1]

History

McGee Field dates back to the first instance of the Sewanee–Vanderbilt football rivalry on November 7, 1891, and is the oldest in the south and the fourth oldest in the nation. [1] That day in '91 saw Sewanee's first ever football game and Vanderbilt's second. The Commodores won 22 to 0. Just eleven years before, Stoll Field at the University of Kentucky saw the South's first football game. For twenty years (1894–1913) Sewanee did not lose a game played "on the mountain." Perhaps the first big event happened in 1897 when Sewanee held John Heisman's Auburn Tigers to a scoreless tie on McGee Field.

Dedications

References

  1. 1 2 3 Williamson, S. and Smith, G. Yea, Sewanee's Right, p. 62, Published by the University of the South, 2011, ISBN   978-0-918769-63-3
  2. ↑ "Stadium Has Harris Name" (PDF). The Sewanee Purple. November 6, 1957.
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