Riggs Field

Riggs Field

A view of Riggs Field from the adjacent Old Greenville Highway, August 2009
Coordinates	34°40′54″N 82°50′20″W
Owner	Clemson University
Operator	Clemson University
Capacity	6500
Surface	Grass
Opened	1915
Tenants
Clemson Tigers (NCAA) (1915-present)

Riggs Field is a 6,500-capacity soccer-specific stadium located in Clemson, South Carolina. The stadium is home to the Clemson Tigers men's and women's soccer teams. It has also hosted the NCAA Men's Soccer Championship in 1987. The stadium opened for soccer in 1987. Previous to this, it hosted a variety of the school's athletic teams, including the football team from 1915 to 1941. It is named after Walter Riggs, the former coach of the football team and president of Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina (1910-1924).

As first laid out in 1915, the football field, surrounded by a cinder track was at the east end of Riggs Field, tennis courts were in the center section, and the baseball diamond was at the west end of the space. A new baseball field was later laid out on an area of campus separate from the previous sports complex, and expanded tennis facilities replaced the former diamond. Riggs Field now generally only refers to the eastern portion where the football team played until 1941. The cinder track was eliminated during the remodelling as a soccer venue. It is now referred to as "Historic Riggs Field".

Riggs Field in pop culture

The original configuration of the track and former football stadium, sans bleachers, was featured in a long scene in the latter portion of the 1974 Burt Lancaster movie The Midnight Man, filmed in part at Clemson University in 1973.

External links

• Information at Clemson athletics