Football Facilities
Plaster Stadium
Plaster Stadium provides an excellent playing surface for Bearcat football. The structure was completed in 1985 and is named in honor of the late Robert W. Plaster, a Lebanon, Missouri businessman who was a major contributor to the fundraising effort for the new facility. The playing surface at the stadium is natural grass, which was re-turfed in 1988. The stadium sports lights that were donated by an anonymous donor in 1998. Encircling the football field is the Orlin B. Stewart Track and the Edwin C. Rice Facility. The track is named in honor of Orlin B. Stewart, who taught and coached at SBU for 38 years. He also served as athletics director from 1956-67.
The Plaster Athletic Center opened in 2001 and houses the football coaching staff, meeting rooms, athletic training room, football locker room, and a banquet room with a balcony that provides a beautiful area for guests of SBU to watch a Bearcat football game. The building also hosts a state-of-the-art weight room.
