Theodore A. Wright Stadium
Football and Track & Field
The Savannah State Tigers are playing their 42nd season in Theodore A. Wright Stadium. In 2011, the Tigers played their first game in newly renovated T.A. Wright Stadium on October 1, after a $6 million revitalization project in 2010 that included new professional style locker rooms, ticket booths, concession areas, brick front, and field turf.
The 2010 renovations added 500 seats to the stadium for a total capacity of 8,500, and heralded the inaugural season of competition in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. In 2009, a new press box was added featuring a President’s Box. The stadium has undergone three major renovations since it was built in 1969. The most significant of these was the 1995 renovations that added the current track.
The original stadium’s construction was part of massive school building project that spanned from 1964 to 1971. The new stadium was built at a cost of $133, 665 and John McGlockton, a 1935 graduate was instrumental in securing the lighting at no expense to the college.
Prior to the current location of T.A. Wright Stadium, the SSU football team played in several different locations in the over 100 hundred years of competitive football. From 1902 to 1940, the Tigers played where the King-Frazier building now stands on the Savannah State campus. From 1940 to the 1970, they played on the grounds that the A.H. Gordon Library sits on today.
The SSU Track and Field team has competed in the stadium since 1995. The Tigers host multiple track and field events each year, utilizing the multiple fields inside and around T.A. Wright Stadium for events such as discuss, javelin throw, high jump, triple jump, and long jump.
