Maverik Stadium, also known as Merlin Olsen Field at Maverik Stadium, is an outdoor college football stadium in the Western United States, on the campus of Utah State University in Logan, Utah. The home field of the Utah State Aggies of the Mountain West Conference, it opened 56 years ago in 1968 as "Romney Stadium" and currently has a seating capacity of 25,100. Its field has a traditional north-south alignment, and sits at an elevation of 4,710 feet (1,435 m) above sea level. The playing surface was natural grass through 2003, and is currently AstroTurf GameDay Grass.
View from northeast in 2017
View from east before the 2017 homecoming game with Wyoming
View from southeast in 2013 after upgrades to the turf and introduction of new logos, with Laub Athletics-Academics Complex in north end zone
Laub Athletics-Academics Complex
Utah State University is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Logan, Utah. Founded in 1888 under the Morrill Land-Grant Acts as Utah's federal land-grant institution, Utah State is one of two flagship universities for the state of Utah; it is classified among "Carnegie R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity". Utah State's main campus in Logan is the oldest and the largest public residential campus operating in Utah with over 84% of students living away from home.
Old Main, the agricultural college's now-iconic first building, is the oldest functioning academic building in the state of Utah and now houses administrative offices, the USU Museum of Anthropology, the Department of Computer Science, and much of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHaSS)
Utah State University in 1892
Meet the Challenge Statue. Utah State's mascot is Big Blue
Military personnel with 8-inch howitzer drill on the Quad. (Year: 1922 or earlier)
