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-Tenant: Marshall Thundering Herd
-Conference: CUSA
-Capacity: 38,016
-Surface: Fieldturf
-Opened:
September 7, 1991
-Cost: $30 Million
-Seating Chart
-Address: 2001 3rd Avenue
Huntington, WV 25755
-Marshall
Sports
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Home of the Marshall
Thundering Herd, Joan C. Edwards Stadium is one of the few college
football stadiums built in the 1990s. In the mid 1980s discussion for a new stadium for
the football team began. It was needed to replace the
deteriorating Fairfield Stadium that had been the home to Marshall
since 1927. By 1990, that discussion became a reality as
construction began on a new stadium. Originally known as Marshall
Stadium, the Thundering Herd played their first game at the stadium
against the New Hampshire Wildcats on September 7, 1991.
The stadium originally had
a seating capacity of 28,000 and a standing room capacity of 30,000. Since
its opening there have been several additions to the
stadium. In 1995, 2,000 seats were added in the south endzone. During
Summer 2000, just over
8,000 seats were added to the south endzone. In November 2003, Marshall Stadium
was renamed in honor
 Joan C. Edwards for her devotion and
generosity to the university. It is one of two stadiums in Division-1
football to
be named after a woman. In 2005 the Astroturf playing field was
replaced with Fieldturf. Today, Joan Edwards Stadium has a seating
capacity of 38,000, including 20 luxury suites. In the future the stadium may be
expanded even more as in was built to be expandable to seat 55,000
fans.
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