Welcome Stadium

Welcome Stadium is a 11,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Dayton, Ohio, United States, owned and operated by the Dayton Public Schools. It opened in 1949, and is home to all Dayton public high schools as well as the University of Dayton Flyers football team. It hosted the 1961 Aviation Bowl and the Ohio High School State Track and Field finals for the years 1999-2003. It also hosts Ohio's High School (OMEA) marching band finals in late October, early November. Welcome Stadium includes a large video board. Coordinates: 39°44′12″N 84°11′53″W / 39.73667°N 84.19806°W / 39.73667; -84.19806

Dayton Flyers football
Venues
  • Welcome Stadium (1949–present)
Bowls & rivalries
  • Bowl games
Culture & lore
  • Rudy Flyer
  • "Victory"
People
  • Head coaches
Seasons
  • 1905
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National championship seasons in bold
The University of Dayton
Athletics
  • Blackburn/McCafferty Trophy
  • Dayton Flyers
  • Men's basketball
  • Men's soccer
  • Victory (fight song)
Facilities
  • The Ghetto
  • Thomas J. Frericks Center
  • Woerner Field
  • University of Dayton Arena
  • Welcome Stadium
Organizations
  • Christmas on Campus
  • Epsilon Tau Pi
  • Flyer Enterprises
  • Flyer News
  • WUDR
Programs
  • Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop
  • International Marian Research Institute
  • Research Institute
  • School of Law
  • TREND
Stadiums of the Pioneer Football League
  • Butler Bowl (Butler)
  • Barker–Lane Stadium (Campbell)
  • Richardson Stadium (Davidson)
  • Welcome Stadium (Dayton)
  • Drake Stadium (Drake)
  • D. B. Milne Field (Jacksonville)
  • Leonidoff Field (Marist)
  • Moye Complex (Mercer)
  • Jayne Stadium (Morehead State)
  • Torero Stadium (San Diego)
  • Spec Martin Stadium (Stetson)
  • Brown Field (Valparaiso)
College football venues in Ohio
Division I
FBS
American Athletic
  • Nippert Stadium & Paul Brown Stadium (Cincinnati)
Big Ten
  • Ohio Stadium (Ohio State)
MAC
  • Dix Stadium (Kent State)
  • Doyt Perry Stadium (Bowling Green)
  • Glass Bowl (Toledo)
  • InfoCision Stadium – Summa Field (Akron)
  • Peden Stadium (Ohio)
  • Yager Stadium (Miami)
Division I
FCS
Missouri Valley
  • Stambaugh Stadium (Youngstown State)
Pioneer
  • Welcome Stadium (Dayton)
Division II
GLIAC
  • Community Stadium (Ashland)
  • Donnell Stadium (Findlay)
  • Fawcett Stadium (Malone & Walsh)
  • Frosty Kalnow Stadium (Tiffin)
  • Jack Britt Memorial Field (Lake Erie)
  • Panther Field (Ohio Dominican)
GLVC
  • McPherson Stadium (Central State)
MEC
  • Korb Field (Notre Dame)
  • Urbana University Stadium (Urbana)
Division III
Heartland
  • Coressel Stadium (Defiance)
  • Salzman Stadium (Bluffton)
  • Schueler Field (Mount St. Joseph)
North Coast
  • Deeds Field–Piper Stadium (Denison)
  • Dill Field (Oberlin)
  • Edwards–Maurer Field (Wittenberg)
  • Henry Field (Hiram)
  • John P. Papp Stadium (Wooster)
  • McBride Field (Kenyon)
  • Selby Field (Ohio Wesleyan)
Ohio
  • Bernlohr Stadium (Capital)
  • Dial–Roberson Stadium (Ohio Northern)
  • Don Drumm Stadium (Marietta)
  • Don Shula Stadium at Wasmer Field (John Carroll)
  • Frost-Kalnow Stadium (Heidelberg)
  • George Finnie Stadium (Baldwin–Wallace)
  • Memorial Stadium (Otterbein)
  • McConagha Stadium (Muskingum)
  • Mount Union Stadium (Mount Union)
  • Williams Stadium (Wilmington)
UAA
  • Case Field (Case Western Reserve)


Famous quotes containing the word stadium:

    “It’s no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the Yankee Stadium of ancient times.”
    —Walter Wellesley (Red)