Yulman Stadium
Football stadium at Tulane University / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yulman Stadium is the on-campus venue for football at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. It currently has a capacity of 30,000 spectators, with 4,500 premium seats in two fan clubs – the Westfeldt Terrace and the Jill H. and Avram A. Glazer Family Club.[2] The stadium's first game and grand opening was the 2014 season's home opener against its former Southern Conference and Southeastern Conference foe Georgia Tech on September 6, 2014.[3][11][12][13]
Full name | Benson Field at Yulman Stadium |
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Location | Ben Weiner Drive New Orleans, LA 70118 |
Coordinates | 29°56′41″N 90°07′01″W |
Owner | Tulane University |
Operator | ASM Global[1] |
Executive suites | 4,500 Club Seats[2] |
Capacity | 30,000[3] |
Surface | Hellas Matrix Turf[4] |
Construction | |
Broke ground | January 28, 2013[5] |
Opened | September 6, 2014[3] |
Construction cost | $75 million[6] ($96.5 million in 2023 dollars)[7] |
Architect | Gould Evans & Associates Lee Ledbetter & Associates |
Structural engineer | Thornton Tomasetti[8] |
Services engineer | MCC Group[9] |
General contractor | Woodward Design+Build[10] |
Tenants | |
Tulane Green Wave football (NCAA) (2014–present) | |
Website | |
tulanegreenwave.com |
Yulman replaced the Mercedes-Benz Superdome as the home stadium of Tulane Green Wave football after 39 seasons at that venue, and it is situated on the university's Uptown campus between the Tulane baseball team's Turchin Stadium and the former site of Tulane's last on-campus football stadium, Tulane Stadium.[13]