🏟 Stadiums · football
Miles Stadium
Opened 1926Demolished in 1965
The new stadium as the 1926 Bugle pictured it: a semicircular bowl cut into the hillside behind the War Memorial Gymnasium
The Bugle, 1926, Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Public domain, via Internet Archive
VT's original football stadium, named for Lt. Col. Clarence P. "Sally" Miles (class of 1901). Last game played November 7, 1964. Johnson, O'Shaughnessy and Pritchard halls already stood on the old stadium site by the 1977-78 campus map.
Fun facts
- •Miles Stadium seated only 17,000 at peak capacity -- a fraction of Lane Stadium's 65,000+.
- •At its October 23, 1926 dedication the stadium had 3,750 permanent seats plus 4,750 temporary ones, and it cost just over $100,000.
Sports history
🏆Football (Historic)
Traditions
The Original Home Fieldsince 1926
Miles Stadium was VT football's home from 1926 to 1964. Named for Lt. Col. Clarence P. "Sally" Miles (class of 1901), it opened with 3,750 permanent seats plus 4,750 temporary ones and grew to 17,000 before being replaced by Lane Stadium in 1965.
Capacity Timeline
19268,500- Dedicated October 23, 1926: 3,750 permanent plus 4,750 temporary seats (3,750 + 4,750 = 8,500)
194011,000- First expansion
195017,000- Final capacity before closure
Stories that happened here
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Close by
A short walk from Miles Stadium.
