Richard Gouse Field at Brown Stadium
Richard Gouse Field at Brown Stadium is a football stadium located in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the home of Brown University's football and outdoor track teams. The athletic teams at Brown University, known as the Bears, compete in the Ivy League. Brown was the last Ivy stadium with a grass playing field until the installation of a FieldTurf surface in 2021. The field is named for Richard I. Gouse '68, the primary donor of the turf field.
Brown Stadium in 2023
Brown president Christina Paxson honors donor Richard I. Gouse '68
Dedication plaque
View from the main grandstand looking toward the field and the visitors stands. Scoreboard at left. Brown-URI football game, September 18, 2021.
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. One of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution, it was the first US college to codify that admission and instruction of students was to be equal regardless of their religion.
Petitioner Ezra Stiles later became the seventh president of Yale College.
Petitioner William Ellery signed the US Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Brown's first president, minister James Manning
The Ezra Stiles copy of Brown's 1764 charter