Homewood Field is the athletics stadium of the

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History

It was built in 1906 and has an official capacity of 8,500 people. The name is taken, as is that of the entire campus, from the name of the estate of

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. Homewood Field is located on the northern border of the campus. It serves as the home field for the university's

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, and

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teams. It was also the home field for the professional lacrosse team, the

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, for the 2001 and 2003

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seasons. It hosted the Division I NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship in 1975, and was the site for the 2016 Big Ten men's lacrosse tournament. The south grandstand is named for Conrad Gebelein (1884–1981), longtime music director at the university. While known primarily for being the "

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of Lacrosse",A century of excellence
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'', August 25, 1983. its largest record crowd actually filled the stands for a

game. In 1915 on Thanksgiving Day, 13,000 spectators watched Hopkins grind out a 3–0 win over in-state rival

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. Fletcher Watts scored the game-winning field goal as the last moments ticked down. From then until 1934, the teams met on that day all but two years.Ted Patterson and Edwin H. Remsberg
Football in Baltimore: History and Memorabilia
2000, March 25, 2009.

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