[1][2] Early Jaguar home football games were played on a field near the SU school of nursing, although Stanocola Park was also sometimes employed as a venue as well.

[4] A contract for a permanent, on-campus stadium structure (with dormitory complex) was awarded by the state board of education on November 14, 1938.

[5] The new stadium was to be completed along the field's west sideline by creatively taking Works Progress Administration funds that were earmarked to build a student dormitory and then building the dorm in the shape of a grandstand[3]—a technique that was possibly borrowed from Skipper Heard's 1931 expansion plans for Tiger Stadium at nearby Louisiana State University (the University of Tennessee similarly had dorm rooms incorporated into a Neyland Stadium expansion project around this time period as well[6]).

[10] Wooden bleacher seats were added to the east side in the late 1950s, and an additional expansion was funded by the state in 1958.

[3] Because SU's stadium could only hold 13,000 fans in the 1970s, Baton Rouge's Memorial Stadium—which could max out at 25,000—occasionally provided an alternative venue for prominent games.

Southern University was gifted $1.265 million from Louisiana Public Commissioner Davante Lewis to complete the upgrades.