Fred C. Yager Stadium is a football stadium in Oxford, Ohio, USA. It is home to the Miami University RedHawks football team. It has a capacity of
24,286 spectators, and was built in 1983. It replaced Miami Field, which had been used since 1895 (the stands had been built in 1916) and was
the home field for many of the coaches who had made the school so famous.
The stadium has an unbalanced layout, with the west grandstands being 20 rows taller than than the east (student) grandstands. A small set of
bleachers sit in the north end zone; there are no seats in the south end zone under the main scoreboard. A Cradle of Coaches room is located
inside the stadium, along with football offices, player meeting rooms, and locker rooms.
Due to the successes of Miami's football program, the University has undertaken a continued series of facility upgrades beginning in 2003 with
the addition of a FieldTurf playing surface. Other recent substantial upgrades of the facility include broadcast-quality permanent lighting, a new
scoreboard with three Daktronics videoboards and the new Cradle of Coaches plaza in 2004, and new student bleacher sections on the east
sideline and the north end zone in 2005.
As part of the University's For Love and Honor fundraising campaign, funds are currently being raised for an indoor practice facility to be
constructed behind the north end zone seats.
The stadium is named for Fred C. Yager, class of 1914, who was the lead benefactor in the project to build the stadium.
