Owner Tulane University Executive suites 4,500 Club Seats Opened 6 September 2014 Construction cost 75 million USD | Operator SMG Surface UBU Speed Series S5-M Capacity 30,000 | |
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Full name Benson Field at Yulman Stadium Location Ben Weiner Drive
New Orleans, LA 70118 Address 2900 Ben Weiner Dr, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA Team Tulane Green Wave football Similar Greer Field at Turchin Stadium, Tulane Stadium, Mercedes‑Benz Superdome, Devlin Fieldhouse, Tad Gormley Stadium | ||
Yulman stadium
Yulman Stadium is the on-campus venue for football at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. It currently has a capacity of 30,000 spectators, with 4,500 premium seats in two fan clubs - the Westfeldt Terrace and the Jill H. and Avram A. Glazer Family Club. The stadium's first game and grand opening was the 2014 season's home opener against its former SEC foe Georgia Tech on September 6, 2014.
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- Stadium features
- Stadium updates
- History
- Attendance history
- References
Yulman replaced the Mercedes-Benz Superdome as the home stadium of Tulane Green Wave football after 39 seasons at that venue, and it is situated on the university's Uptown campus between the Tulane baseball team's Turchin Stadium and the former site of Tulane's last on-campus football stadium, Tulane Stadium. The Green Wave are 4-8 all-time in games played in Yulman.
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Stadium features
The stadium features two elevated club decks on the home side. The Jill H. and Avram A. Glazer Family Club is the premier club-level seating in the stadium, with 1,500 chair back seats, two club rooms, two bars, expanded concessions, and a large meeting space. The remainder of Yulman's premium seating is composed of 3,000 chair back seats in the Westfeldt Terrace, located directly above the Glazer Club and covered by a canopy. Westfeldt features a panoramic view of the New Orleans skyline and premium concessions, including traditional New Orleans dishes.
A large-scale meeting space is located on the ground level for use year-round. The entry space in front of the stadium, known as the Athletes Plaza, is used for pre- and post-game activities. The field's end zones feature a green and white checkerboard pattern such as that in the original Tulane Stadium, as well as an alternating green pattern made to look similar to real, mown grass. Yulman holds a 94-by-24-foot LED video board, as well as two ribbon displays, all made by Daktronics. Barry Kern from Mardi Gras World created a float for use during pre-game parades, as well as a mural inside the Glazer Club.
Stadium updates
Yulman was designed and constructed with the ability to expand in the future should demand dictate it, specifically with 5,000—10,000 seats in the east sideline and north end zone (Glazer/Westfeldt side and Wilson end zone, respectively).
Prior to the 2016 season, Athletic Director Troy Dannen announced the addition of a 2,400-pound sculpture of the program's classic "Angry Wave" to the top of the scoreboard. Located above the student section and produced by Mardi Gras World, the sculpture doubles as a water feature, though details of that aspect have yet to be announced.
History
University representatives initially named the stadium "Tulane Community Stadium" but revealed its official name in late 2012. Richard Yulman, the former chair/owner of Serta and a member of the Board of Tulane, and his wife donated $15 million toward construction of the project, gaining naming rights to the stadium in the process. He later committed another $10 million to the project as a challenge to other donors to completely fund the project through private donations by the end of the first football season in the stadium. The stadium’s field was named Benson Field after New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans owner Tom Benson and his wife Gayle, who jointly donated $7.5 million from the Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation.
In its first game in Yulman Stadium, Tulane played the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in front of a university-reported crowd of 30,000 spectators. The opening game sold out 14 minutes after single-game tickets went on sale, and students picked up roughly 5,000 tickets for the game (about 40% of the entire undergraduate and graduate enrollment of the university), making it the largest student crowd at a Tulane game since football moved off campus in 1975.
Attendance history
Attendance at games through September 24, 2016