Facility Changes

Image from a 1987 edition of The Trinitonian that shows Trinity's football stadium under construction as they chopped off half of the home stands seats.

This is a current image of E.M. Stevens Stadium where Trinity football and track and field house their sporting events. 

After the division changes in 1973, the loss of scholarship athletes, and thus the loss of Division I competition Trinity started to see a major decline in both student involvment and community following at sporting events. In a 1987 article of The Trinitonian Atletic Director and head football coach Gene Norris specifically highlighted the decline in Trinity's athletic culture since the "demotion" to Division III athletics got rid of our scholarship athletes and our major school competitions. In that same article he stated that the stadium was going to be renovated and would result in chopping off what equated to 4,000 seats and the press box at that time. According to Norris the reasoning for this was pure aesthetic. He wanted to ensure that the students living in the new dorms behine the stadium would be able to see the game from their balcony's. However, one could speculate that the real reason might be due to the loss of fanbase that Trinity has suffered over the past decade prior to the ronovation. In an interview with current Athletic Director Bob King he also hypothesized that the reasoning was more than just aesthetic purposes, especaially since the dorms rose up to five or eight stories high.