Old Beaver Field
Students first played baseball on this site in the 1870s and it was here that Penn State began intercollegiate athletics. Governor James A. Beaver secured $15,000 in state funds in 1891 to improve the field, which was then named in his honor. The funds paid for the fields, running track and a small grandstand. Penn State sports soon outgrew the facility, and New Beaver Field, on the current site of the Nittany Parking Deck, opened in 1909.