Perkins Stadium is a stadium in

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. Primarily used for

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, it is the home field of the

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"Warhawks". Opened in 1970 as Warhawks Stadium, the facility originally held 11,000 people. It was renamed Perkins Stadium on September 14, 1996, in honor of former football coach Forrest Perkins. The stadium hosts the

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Championships and the WSMA State Marching Band Championships.

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held its annual Drum & Bugle Corps World Championships at the stadium in 1972 and 1973. The stadium received new synthetic turf, bench areas, landscaping and other improvements, including upgrades to the entrance area and scoreboard, in 2008. With this upgrade the new

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is now at 13,500, making it the largest stadium in

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. On October 3, 2015, a record crowd of 15,287 was recorded for a game. That mark was shattered on October 8, 2016, when the Warhawks defeated the

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17–14 in front of a crowd of 17,535 fans, then broken again on October 13, 2022, for a Friday night game between the same teams with 18,951 in attendance. That not only broke the previous Perkins Stadium record, but also broke the

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record for attendance. On September 23, 2017, the NCAA record was broken by a St. Thomas vs. Saint John's contest that was hosted at

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in Minneapolis, Minnesota. However, the October 2022 game maintains the largest crowd for a Division III game played at a non-neutral site.

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Aerial View of Perkins Stadium
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