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| Full name | New Beaver Field |
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| Location | University Park, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 40°47′48″N 77°52′11″W / 40.79667°N 77.86972°W |
| Owner | Penn State University |
| Operator | Penn State University |
| Capacity | 30,000 |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 1907 |
| Opened | 1909 Capacity 1,200 |
| Expanded | 1915[1] Capacity 6,000 1920 Capacity 16,000 (expandable to 20,000) 1924 Press box added 1934Capacity 14,700 1949Capacity 27,720 |
| Closed | 1959 |
| Construction cost | $23,000 [2] (equivalent to $779,956 in 2023) |
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New Beaver Field was a stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania. It served as the third home of the Penn State University Nittany Lions football team, hosting the team until they moved in 1960 to Beaver Stadium. It was built to replace the original Beaver Field (1892–1908), retroactively called Old Beaver Field, which had a capacity of 500 and stood between present-day Osmond and Frear Laboratories. Prior to this, the team played on Old Main Lawn, a grassy area outside the main classroom building of the time.[3]
New Beaver Field was built to the northeast of Rec Hall on the present sites of the Nittany Lion Inn and the Nittany Parking Deck and held 30,000 people at its peak. In addition to football, the stadium had a track as well as baseball, lacrosse, and soccer fields. In 1959, the entire structure was disassembled and moved to the northeast corner of campus, where it was reassembled, expanded, and dubbed Beaver Stadium.[4] Portions of the original 1909 design are still in use today. The stadium is named after James A. Beaver, who was a governor of Pennsylvania and a member of the school's board of trustees.
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Bookwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "The New Athletic Field". Vol. 5, no. 3. State Collegian. 22 October 1908. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
- ^ "The Behrend College Collegian". Vol. 45, no. 5. The Behrend College Collegian. 3 October 1996. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- ^ "Beaver Stadium: A Visual History Through The Years". Onward State. Onward State. 25 September 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2020.