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The George Finnie Stadium
The George Finnie Stadium and Tressel Field is the home to Yellow Jacket football, men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s soccer and men’s and women’s outdoor track and field. Finnie Stadium was built in 1971 and has a capacity of 7,800.
The Finnie Stadium field was dedicated as Tressel Field as part of a donation by the Tressel Family in the summer of 2008. During the summer of 2018, the Tressel Field playing surface was upgraded with new turf and a safety pad to reduce concussions. In August of 2016, the construction of a new video scoreboard, which is one of the largest in all of NCAA Division III, was completed.
The video scoreboard measures 21 feet and 11 inches high by 36 feet wide. The video area measures 10’11” high and 36’ wide and can be divided into five separate zones. Also a part of the Tressel Family donation, the track surface was updated and was the same surface that was used during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Finnie Stadium has hosted three NCAA Division III National Championship track meets, numerous NCAA and Ohio High School Athletic Association football playoff games as well as being the home field to Berea-Midpark High School. The Ohio Sports Festival/Ohio State Games have also used Finnie as both a regional and state championship site. Finnie Stadium is located at 100 E. Bagley Road next to Berea-Midpark High School and across the street from the Lou Higgins Center.
Finnie Stadium is the unofficial home for Wildcat Football in 2024 and will host three Saint Ignatius games in the regular season. The last time the Wildcats played at the home of Baldwin Wallace was in the 2020 season when they hosted the Solon Comets in the first round of the OHSAA Tournament. Heading into the 2024 season, the Football Cats have achieved a 31-10-1 record at Finnie Stadium. The last regular season home game at Finnie Stadium came in the 1999 season when the Cats defeated Dunbar (DC) 38-14.
