The Battlefields

As one would suspect, Notre Dame campus is littered with football fields. In 2022, there were at least five full sized football facilities on campus besises Notre Dame Stadium. They are the LeBar practice fields, Ricci Family Fields, Meyo Field in Loftus Sports Center, and the Stepan Fields. Modern interhall football is played at the Ricci fields, but the list of past venues is extensive. In the list below you will find broken glass and broken bones, but never a broken spirit.

The three campuses: Brownson, Carroll, and St. Edward's

Brownson campus field

Brownson Hall was an extension of the Main Building that accommodated some of the first university collegians. It was constructed in 1855, though it wasn't until 1890 that the hall was named after noted writer and Catholic convert Orestes Brownson. During the 1860s and 70s, a "campus playground" for the junior (high school) and senior (college) students was unofficially organized outside of the dormitory for the various handball and "old-style" football games. It

Other names include the senior playground/campus/field, and Brownson campus

Carroll campus field


Other names include the junior playground/campus/field

St. Edward's campus field


Other names include the St. Edward's campus/field

New Cartier Field

The Tennis Court fields

Stepan fields

Ricci Family Fields

Championship Fields

Old Cartier Field

Constructed in 1900 from the wonderous donation of Warren Cartier, Cartier Field is generally considered to be the Fighting Irish's "first" football field. At its peak the stands were able to hold just under 30,000 people, 2000 of which would stick around long enough to watch some of the most well-attended football games in interhall history. Cartier Field was

Notre Dame Stadium