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Rutgers Stadium is the on-campus stadium for Rutgers University football. It opened in 1994 in Piscataway, New Jersey, and holds 42,000 spectators.

The facility, overlooking the Raritan River, opened on September 3, 1994, as the Scarlet Knights football team defeated Kent State University, 28-6. The stadium is on the site of the previous Rutgers Stadium, which opened October 22, 1938, with a 32-0 victory over Hampden-Sydney College. At the conclusion of the Scarlet Knights' final season in the old stadium, 1992, Rutgers had hosted 225 football games, going 168-53 with four ties.

The team played its 1993 season at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, a facility operated by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which financed the new Rutgers Stadium through a bond issue.

The new stadium features upper decks on both sides of the field; light stanchions that allow for network television broadcasts of night games; a two-level press box on the west mezzanine; and eight 1,000-square-foot concession stands. It had a grass surface until 2003, when FieldTurf was installed.

Rutgers Stadium has also hosted NCAA tournament soccer and lacrosse games.

External link:

Rutgers Stadium (Rutgers University athletics official site)