Rutgers Stadium was a
stadium
A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...
in
Piscataway Township, New Jersey
Piscataway () is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It is a suburb of the New York metropolitan area, in the Raritan Valley. At the 2010 United States Census, the population was 56,044, an increase of 5,562 (+11.0%) f ...
. It hosted the
Rutgers University
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...
Scarlet Knights
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
team until the school built the new
Rutgers Stadium
SHI Stadium is the football stadium at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. Rutgers Scarlet Knights football, Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's lacrosse, and women's lacrosse use the venue for home games. It is located on the Busch Campus at ...
in 1994. The stadium held 31,219 people at its peak and was opened in 1938. It also hosted the
NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship on five occasions.
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Venue history
Defunct college football venues
Rutgers Scarlet Knights football
NCAA Men's Division I Lacrosse Championship venues
Works Progress Administration in New Jersey
American football venues in New Jersey
Lacrosse venues in the United States
1938 establishments in New Jersey
Sports venues completed in 1938
1993 disestablishments in New Jersey
Sports venues demolished in 1993
Demolished sports venues in New Jersey
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