[4] Built in 1962, the stadium holds 7,000 seats and facilitates a variety of events, including marching band performances and drum and bugle corps competitions.

[5] It is named after Carlyn P. Blakeslee, who served as a coach, administrator, and Health and Physical Education professor at Minnesota State from 1921 until his retirement in 1961.

[6] In 2022, the stadium hosted Hockey Day Minnesota, an annual series of outdoor ice hockey games sponsored by the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL) and FanDuel Sports Network North.

[7] Plans for replacing the more than 55-year-old structure have been discussed by Minnesota State University.

[8][9] Media related to Blakeslee Stadium at Wikimedia Commons