Joseph S. Darling Memorial Stadium, located in Hampton, Virginia

Hampton, Virginia

Hampton is an independent city that is not part of any county in Southeast Virginia. Its population is 137,436. As one of the seven major cities that compose the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, it is on the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula. Located on the Hampton Roads Beltway, it hosts...

, serves primarily as a high school football

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 stadium, and also hosts various track-and-field meets, as well as marching band

Marching band

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 competitions. The 8,000-seat brick facility opened in 1989.

In 1928, the Darling Estate donated land on Hampton's Victoria Road, exclusively for the use of athletic facilities. The original stadium lasted until 1987, two years before the current stadium opened. The city's four high schools -Bethel, Hampton

Hampton High School (Hampton, Virginia)

Hampton High School is a public secondary school located in Hampton, Virginia. It is the oldest standing high school in Hampton Public Schools. It contains an International Baccalaureate World School with the Diploma Programme.Hampton high is the first high school in the Hampton city high school...

, Kecoughtan

Kecoughtan High School

Kecoughtan High School is a public high school located in Hampton, Virginia. The current grades offered are 9–12. Kecoughtan High School is one of four high schools located in the Hampton City Public School District...

, and Phoebus

Phoebus High School

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- each use Darling Stadium for their home football games.