The architectural design features a trapezoid-shaped southwest stands and a smaller section of concrete bleachers on the northeast side.

[3] The largest crowd ever recorded at the stadium was for the Brown vs. Colgate game on Thanksgiving morning 1932; portable bleachers were brought in to accommodate 33,000 fans.

[3] In the early years of Brown sports, the football teams played at Adelaide Park in Elmwood or on the university campus.

[3] In 1897, Brown was given land just west of Hope Street about a mile and a half north of campus, on which it built Andrews Field.

[3] The stadium's first night game was played on September 25, 2010, as Brown defeated Harvard, 29–14, before a crowd of 17,000 fans.

[7] The new field, named after primary donor Richard I. Gouse '68, is said to be faster and safer than the previous grass surface.