It is primarily used for football, and has been the home of Western Michigan University Broncos football in rudimentary form since 1914, and as a complete stadium since 1939. Northwestern State's first football team was fielded in 1907. The Northwestern State Demons football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Northwestern State University located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Southland Conference. Parking for 600 cars is provided in the area immediately adjacent to the stadium. Near the campus of Northwestern University, it is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the Northwestern Wildcats of the Big Ten Conference. Other features include the plush Demon dressing room, equipment room, and laundry area with ample storage space.© 2020 Northwestern State University of Louisana,$ 4,812,600 (including renovation and expansion of old stadium with artificial surfacing of the field),Harold Pique and Associates, New Orleans, Louisiana,Tudor Construction Company, Alexandria, Louisiana,September 3, 1977 (NSU 28, Texas-Arlington 24). The team plays its home games at the 15,971 seat Harry Turpin Stadium in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Over $7 million of upgrades have been invested into the Ranger Field Complex.Constructed in 1969 at a cost of $750,000, Ranger Field is located in the center of a 30-acre tract just southwest of the main campus. It opened in 1975 and is home to the … List of NCAA Division I FCS football stadiums,"2013 Northwestern State Demons Football Media Guide","2014 NORTHWESTERN STATE FOOTBALL MEDIA GUIDE","Longtime NSU booster Horton dies, June 6, 2013",Turpin Stadium - Northwestern State Athletics,Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts,Northwestern State Demons and Lady Demons,https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry_Turpin_Stadium&oldid=955939971,Multi-purpose stadiums in the United States,Buildings and structures in Natchitoches, Louisiana,Infobox mapframe without OSM relation ID on Wikidata,Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License,This page was last edited on 10 May 2020, at 16:56. The official Football page for the Northwestern University Wildcats Main Navigation Menu Turpin Stadium is located on the campus of Northwestern State University in the beautiful small city of Natchitoches, Louisiana (pronounced “Nack-a-tish”). It is the only FBS stadium without permanent lighting. It features a unique bowl structure that encloses three of the four sides of the stadium and has a seating capacity of 6,000. NSU students and the Spirit of Northwestern Marching Band sit on the east side of the field. Constructed in 1969 at a cost of $750,000, Ranger Field is located in the center of a 30-acre tract just southwest of the main campus. Northwestern State's first football team was fielded in 1907. The team plays its home games at the 15,971 seat Harry Turpin Stadium in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The Fieldhouse is home to administrative and coaching offices, dressing rooms, training rooms with up to date facilities, weight room, lounges, meeting areas, and film rooms. It features a unique bowl structure that encloses three of the four sides of the stadium and has a seating capacity of 6,000. Parking for 600 cars is provided in the area immediately adjacent to the stadium. While there’s not much immediately surrounding the stadium outside of college buildings, the stadium is located just two miles from the historic downtown area along the Cane River. Ryan Field is a stadium in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago. The tiered parking spaces on the hill behind the south endzone has become a great Alva tradition, offering fans a perfect view of the action while they tailgate.Video Platform Powered by CBS Sports Digital. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Southland Conference. Turpin, a four sport letterman at what was then Louisiana Normal in the mid-1920s, collected 98 victories during his 22 years as the Demons head coach. Northwestern State is now in its fifth decade of playing home games in Turpin Stadium, named for Harry Turpin, the second all-time winningest coach in Demon football history. It currently has a capacity of 30,200 spectators. Its current seating capacity is 47,130. Northwestern State Demons football () Harry Turpin Stadium is a 15,971-seat multi-purpose stadium in Natchitoches, Louisiana . 2020 © Northwestern Oklahoma State University.The home of Northwestern Oklahoma State football – After a few years of multi-million dollar renovations, Ranger Field is now complete after Field Turf was installed in March of 2015 and the new two-story Dean Linder Press box is now complete. In the Fall of 2013, the football weight room went through a wall-to-wall overhaul with the purchase of new state-of-the-art weights and racks. Completing the complex is the NSU Fieldhouse, which opened in 1979.