"[5] In 1902, Detroit businessman Dexter M. Ferry purchased and donated 20 acres (81,000 m2) north of Regents Field for use in constructing a new athletic facility.

[3] In November 1902, a Thanksgiving Day game against the University of Minnesota was held at Ferry Field with 10,000 spectators in attendance.

The facility included a brick wall and ornamental gate with ten ticket windows.

With the completion of the operations we are making the total expenditure for permanent improvement of the field will cost $150,000.

On it we have a gridiron for practice, another where the old field was, and the splendid new one, drained, leveled, sodded, surrounded by a concrete wall.