McNaspy Stadium Memorial

McNaspy Stadium opened in 1940 with 4,500 seats, and its big home grandstand held men's dormitory space as well as locker rooms and weight rooms. The football team played there until 1971, when it moved to Cajun Field, and men's soccer used it until the mid-1980s. It hosted the 1948 Camellia Bowl. Students called it McNaspy Beach, for jogging on the track and tanning in the stands. The stadium was demolished in 2000 to make room for Oliver Hall, the computer science building beside the memorial.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 1.5 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 7.2 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 13 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 13 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.

More markers nearby

• Amédé Ardoin / Dennis McGee — steps away
• Pillars of Progress (Desegregation of SLI) — steps away
• Dedicated in Honor of Christiana Gordon Smith — 0.3 mi
• 1898-1899 (ULL Walk of Honor) — 0.4 mi