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University of Mount Union

Athletics Site of the Mount Union Purple Raiders
Athletics Site of the Mount Union Purple Raiders

Kehres Stadium

The home of the Purple Raider football, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's lacrosse along with track and field teams, Kehres Stadium was built in 1913 and is the oldest college football stadium in the state of Ohio. 

The stadium is named after former football coach and athletic director Larry Kehres, who was head coach for 27 seasons and led the Raiders to 11 NCAA national championships. He is college football's all-time winningest coach with a .929 win percentage and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2017

Parts of the covered stands on the west side and the ticket booths on the south side of the stadium still date back to that year.  The eastside of the stadium was added in 1927.

A remodel project was completed in 2002 that included an addition and redo of the roof to the covered stands, additional restroom facilities, a new press box, scoreboard and a synthetic grass turf field.

More recently, the NCAA regulation 400 meter track has been redone and most of the competition equipment was updated as Mount Union hosted the 2010 Ohio Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships.  

In 2013, a project was completed that remade the press box into the Dom Capers Press Box and additional locker rooms were added.
In 2017, a state-of-art daktronics video board was added that is one of the largest among NCAA Division III stadiums. 
In 2021, the third generation of an artificial turf field was installed.