Bearcat Stadium

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Bearcat Stadium

Former names	Memorial Stadium, Rickenbrode Stadium
Location	Maryville, Missouri
Coordinates	40°21′02″N 94°53′08″W / 40.3506°N 94.885612°W / 40.3506; -94.885612
Owner	Northwest Missouri State University
Operator	Northwest Missouri State University
Capacity	6,500
Surface	Field Turf
Construction
Opened	1917
Expanded	2003
Tenants
Northwest Missouri State University

Bearcat Stadium (formerly Memorial Stadium and Rickenbrode Stadium) is the football stadium of the Northwest Missouri State University Bearcats in Maryville, Missouri and is the oldest continuous site for any NCAA Division II school.

It has a capacity of 6,500 and had lights and FieldTurf installed in the summer of 2007.

It is part of the Ryland Milner Complex which includes Bearcat Arena in the Uel W. Lamkin Activity Center (formerly "Lamkin Gym"), which is where the college basketball team plays, Martindale Gymnasium (the original school gymnasium), and the Robert P. Foster Aquatic Center. The field is surrounded by the Herschel Neil Track (named for a university student and rival of Jesse Owens who held several NCAA track records in the 1930s). The playing field itself is called Tjeerdsma Field in honor of the school's winning football coach Mel Tjeerdsma.