NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Meade Stadium

Meade Stadium is a 5,180-seat multi-purpose stadium in Kingston, Rhode Island. It is home to the University of Rhode Island Rams football team. The facility opened in 1928. It was renamed in 1936 to honor John E. "Jack" Meade, class of 1915, longtime Rhode Island politician and booster, who was said to have never missed a game in the stadium until his death in 1972. Telstra Stadium in Sydney, Australia is capable of being converted from a rectangular football field to an oval for cricket games A modern stadium (plural stadiums or stadia in English) is a place, or venue, for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field or stage partly... Kingston is a small town in the state of Rhode Island in the United States. ... The University of Rhode Island, commonly abbreviated as U.R.I., is the principal public research university in the State of Rhode Island, with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, and three other campuses located throughout the state. ... Look up Football in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A team comprises any group of people or animals linked in a common purpose. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The stadium has undergone many changes in its history. The old field house was built in 1933, and in 1934 the west stands and press box were opened, with a capacity of 1,500. In 1978 the 50-row steel grandstand was erected on the east side of, bringing the total capacity up to 8,000. Various other projects, including a press box expansion and modernization of the turf and scoreboard, took place soon after. In 2000, the west stands and field house were razed to make way for the Ryan Center. Currently a new set of west stands are being built abutting the Ryan Center, whose east luxury boxes also look down on Meade Stadium. Ryan Center is a 7,657-seat multi-purpose arena in Kingston, Rhode Island. ...

In 2007, one of its bigger changes will take place off the field. After playing sixty-nine seasons in the same conference (the Atlantic 10 Conference, which was formed by the former members of the Yankee Conference), the team will make the switch to the Colonial Athletic Association. The Atlantic 10 Conference (A10) is a college athletic conference which operates mostly in the eastern United States; it also has two member schools in Ohio. ... The Yankee Conference was a collegiate sports conference in the eastern United States which sponsored competition only in football. ... The Colonial Athletic Association, also known as the CAA, is a NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to Georgia. ...

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