Leonidoff Field
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Tenney Stadium at Leonidoff Field is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose stadium
in Poughkeepsie, New York
. It is home to the Marist College
Red Foxes football
team
. The facility opened in 1968. At the conclusion of the 2006 football season, the existing grandstand was removed to make way for a more modern, updated facility including modern press boxes, luxury suites, home and away locker rooms, an athletic training room as well as a new concession stand. Additionally, the natural turf surface was replaced with Field Turfsynthetic surface. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, the new stadium is one of several recently completed construction projects at Marist. The project was completed for the start of the 2007 football season. It now serves five varsity sports programs for the school.
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Multi-purpose stadium
Multi-purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed in such a way as to be easily used by multiple sports. While any stadium could potentially host more than one sport, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multi-functionality over specificity...
in Poughkeepsie, New York
Poughkeepsie (city), New York
Poughkeepsie is a city in the state of New York, United States, which serves as the county seat of Dutchess County. Poughkeepsie is located in the Hudson River Valley midway between New York City and Albany...
. It is home to the Marist College
Marist College
Marist College is a private liberal arts college on the east bank of the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie, New York. The site was established in 1905 by Marist Brothers, and the college was chartered in 1929...
Red Foxes football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
team
Team
A team comprises a group of people or animals linked in a common purpose. Teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent subtasks.A group in itself does not necessarily constitute a team...
. The facility opened in 1968. At the conclusion of the 2006 football season, the existing grandstand was removed to make way for a more modern, updated facility including modern press boxes, luxury suites, home and away locker rooms, an athletic training room as well as a new concession stand. Additionally, the natural turf surface was replaced with Field Turfsynthetic surface. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, the new stadium is one of several recently completed construction projects at Marist. The project was completed for the start of the 2007 football season. It now serves five varsity sports programs for the school.
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