SECU Stadium

It is the home of Maryland Terrapins football and men's lacrosse teams, which compete in the Big Ten Conference.

[10] In 1991, the stadium added the five-story Tyser Tower on its south side, featuring luxury suites and an expanded press area.

In 2002, a full-color video scoreboard was added in the east endzone, and the Gossett Football Team House started an expansion project.

Between 2007 and 2009, the stadium underwent a $50.8 million expansion, increasing overall capacity, adding skyboxes and lowering the field to improve spectators' sightlines.

[11] The university had also announced plans to extend the upper deck around the west endzone, adding another 8,000 seats, but the expansion project was completed without this construction.

SECU Stadium has also hosted the Division I NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship ten times.

During his tenure, the campus grew significantly, and Byrd is credited with transforming UMD from "an undistinguished agricultural college to something resembling a modern university.

Maryland team posing in front of the stadium in 1951
An aerial 1975 photo of then-Byrd Stadium