Lane Stadium
| Home of Hokie Spirit, The Terrordome (1999) |
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| Location | 285 Beamer Way Blacksburg, VA 24060 USA |
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| Coordinates | 37°13′12″N 80°25′05″W / 37.22000°N 80.41806°WCoordinates: 37°13′12″N 80°25′05″W / 37.22000°N 80.41806°W |
| Owner | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Operator | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Capacity | 66,233 (Total for Lane Stadium) 1,200 (Club Seating) 240 (Luxury Seating – 15 Suites) |
| Surface | GreenTech ITM Natural Grass (Vamont Bermuda) |
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| Broke ground | April 1, 1964 |
| Opened | September 24, 1965 |
| Renovated | 1989, 1994, 1998, 2006, 2012, 2013 |
| Expanded | 1980, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004 |
| Construction cost |
$3.5 million ($26.6 million in 2017 dollars) |
| Architect | Carneal and Johnston Smithey and Boynton |
| General contractor | Dobyns, Inc. |
| Tenants | |
| Virginia Tech Hokies (NCAA) (1965–present) | |
Lane Stadium/Worsham Field is a stadium located in Blacksburg, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is the home field of the Virginia Tech Hokies. It was rated the number one home field advantage in all of college football in 2005 by Rivals.com. It is also ranked #2 on ESPN.com's "Top 10 Scariest Places To Play."
From 1982 to 2014, Lane Stadium had the highest elevation of any Division I Football Bowl Subdivision school stadium in the eastern United States, at 2,057 feet above sea level. That distinction now belongs to Kidd Brewer Stadium, home to Appalachian State University, which sits at 3,333 feet above sea level.
In 1963, school administrator Stuart K. Cassell, namesake of Cassell Coliseum, proposed building a larger stadium to replace the 17,000-seat Miles Stadium. Construction of Lane Stadium began on April 1, 1964. It took a total of four years to complete construction. However, the first game in the new stadium was played in 1965, when VT beat William & Mary 9–7. At the game, only the west stands and center section of the east bleachers were completed. It wasn't until the summer of 1968 that construction was completed on Lane Stadium, with an official cost of $3.5 million. This brand new stadium seated 35,050 which featured a press box for guests, writers, stats crew-members, scouts, and coaches.
The stadium is named after Edward Hudson Lane, a Virginia Polytechnic Institute graduate and a 1960s member of the Board of Visitors. Lane founded the Lane Company Inc., of Altavista, Virginia, known for their dominance of the cedar chest business, a business started in 1912 with the technical help of Lane's old shop class professor from Tech. In the 1960s, Lane headed an educational foundation project which raised over $3 million for the original construction, with his challenge gift of Lane Company stock comprising the lead gift. Like many stadiums built at the time, it consisted of two bowed sideline grandstands with free-standing bleachers behind the end zones. The stadium's original form was substantially similar to that of BB&T Field at Wake Forest and Memorial Stadium at Indiana University.
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