Stuart Field

{{Short description|Stadium at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA}}

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| stadium_name = Stuart Field

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| caption = Football game in 1913. (Click to enlarge.)

| location = West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.

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| opened = April 16, 1892

| closed = 1940

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| owner = Purdue University

| operator = Purdue University

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| tenants = Purdue Boilermakers football (1892–1924)
{{cbsb link|team=Purdue Boilermakers|school=Purdue University|title=Purdue Boilermakers baseball}} (1892–1939)

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Stuart Field was a stadium at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. It was the home field of the Purdue Boilermakers football team from 1892 until 1924 when Ross–Ade Stadium opened.{{cite web |url=http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/bucket/stadium.php |title=Old Oaken Bucket |publisher=Purdue University Libraries - Archives and Special Collections |access-date=January 13, 2010}} Purdue's baseball team continued to play at Stuart Field until 1939. The Elliott Hall of Music is located at Stuart Field's former site,{{cite web |url=http://www.purduesports.com/facilities/lambert-field.html |title=Lambert Field (Baseball) |publisher=CBS Interactive |access-date=January 13, 2010}} while the west grand stand of the field was adjacent to the Purdue Armory.{{cite web|url=http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/u?/pbuildings,2478 |title=1920s aerial photograph of Stuart Field and the Purdue Armory|access-date=January 1, 2017}}

The field was dedicated on April 16, 1892,{{cite book |last=Stone |first=Winthrop E. |author-link=Winthrop E. Stone |title=The Twenty-Fifth Report of Purdue University |access-date=March 19, 2012 |date=January 12, 1900 |publisher=Wm. R. Burford |location=Indianapolis |page=36 |chapter=Report on Athletics at Purdue University |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nSwUKcZp0wC&pg=RA7-PA36}} and named for Charles B. and William V. Stuart, two brothers who served on the university's board of trustees.{{cite book |title=A University of Tradition: The Spirit of Purdue |author=Purdue Reamer Club |year=2002 |publisher=Purdue University Press |location=West Lafayette, Indiana |isbn=1-55753-191-9 |page=66 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3afAAAAMAAJ&q=stuart+field&pg=66 |access-date=March 19, 2012}} Originally a seven-acre (2.8 ha) field with 800 seats, by the 1910s it was expanded to twice that area and a seating capacity of 5,000.{{cite book |title=Ross-Ade: Their Purdue Stories, Stadium, and Legacies |last=Kriebel |first=Robert C. |year=2009 |publisher=Purdue University Press |location=West Lafayette, Indiana |isbn=978-1-55753-522-1 |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uph7dDujN7IC&pg=PA100 |access-date=March 19, 2012}} Stuart Field was also used for special events, including a biplane demonstration on June 13, 1911, which attracted 17,000 spectators.