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What is Tazewell 

The Mayor has taken over!
It's the former home of the Radford Bobcats. It and the old high school were located near downtown.

Who is Radford?

Additional pics of Wade Field from 1928 provided by Bluefield Researcher





 

The Mayor's a force in local stadium trivia!
It's Tenneva Field, home of the Virginia High Bearcats from 1920-36. Both Va High and Tenn High moved to the Stone Castle that last year. The Bearcats returned to the Virginia side of the line in 1974 to its current home. 
 
Fun fact:
Tenneva Field hosted the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers in a 1922 exhibition game.  5,000 people turned out to watch Babe Ruth play baseball in Bristol.

What is the Bristol Bear kitties?
RIP Krystal Burger 

Why should Richlands give up their benefit game because of Virginia High's incompetence?

Idk that more elected officials is the answer

It's a line from a great Scott Miller song...
Lo Siento, Spanishburg, WVa.
Well the TV's off because there's nothing on all the hometown fans are in the stands since the team won state because the coach was great and they hired him down in Peterstown
But he didn't win so he's back again this next bag of kids could not commit
they were big enough but not that tough and thought the single wing was a passing thing
I guess the will to win is oft forgotten when old times there are oxycodon Lo siento, Spanishburg, West Virginia
 

The Mayor wastes no time coming up with right school!
It's the home of the Peterstown Pirates.
 
Fun fact:
The 34.48-carat Jones Diamond was discovered nearby during a game of horseshoes in 1928. It's the largest alluvial diamond ever found in North America

Who is Peterstown?
RIP Ben Thorton

You are the oddest “Tazewell” fan I’ve ever came across.

Bluefield High hasn't had their own field since 1926.

I don't think that either side is really bargaining in good faith. Both sides very arrogant. It really wasn't smart of Graham (Tazewell County) to build a half stadium because they didn't have all the funding committed for a full stadium. It really wasn't smart of Bluefield to pour all the money into the superficial upgrades to Mitchell Stadium hoping to get the WVSSAC to move the championship games to Mitchell when they had made several best bids before and were still denied. They should of known the contract is not awarded to the best bid it is awarded by the good ole boy network. New director at that time is from Charleston area and it went to Charleston. Old director was from Wheeling and it went to Wheeling. 
So now Graham is holding the bag with a half stadium and Bluefield is left with the costs of the superficial upgrades with no championship games. Both are looking to cut their losses and the students are going to pay for the incompetence. Not the same way the children in Gaza are paying but they are going to pay nevertheless.

A survey to determine if your school has a proper high school stadium?
-Are there features built by non-skilled labor such as students, coaches, or parents?
 
-Are there any parts of the stadium that were donated used?
 
-Is the field a good soaking rain away from becoming a mosh pit?
 
-Are bleachers, buildings, or fencing mismatched by type, style, or era?
 
-Are doors now secured with padlocks because keys were lost years ago?
 
-Does the field serve double-duty for another activity, such as baseball or a county fair?
 
-Is the stadium close enough to a public road that a vehicle could careen into the stands from above?
 
-Do you pee in a trough?
 
If you answered YES to four or more questions, Congratulations!, your school has a proper high school stadium.

It has all the pieces to be great, those pieces were just arranged as poorly as possible.
Move the track (to one of the practice fields, behind the stadium, or across the road), move the stands in close, and put a locker room right behind each endzone and it could have been something special 
As swvaog mentioned the concourse viewing is something nice, Haysi and Clintwood had a similar feature, I wonder of those setups were considered in design?  

At one time it was Maroon Wave Stadium, located in Junior Poca (a suburb of Welch).
My dad played for Welch on that field back in the 1950s.  Including one 1957 game against Northfork when he lined up directly across the line against his own brother (who played for the Blue Demons).

Not to mention if you are elderly,impared..etc. good luck with walking from where you have to park.

Unpopular opinion - This place isn't great. Its a stale facility with no personality, the press box faces directly into the sun and the seats are too far away from the field.

I remember how awful trips on a bus to Carroll County and Grayson County were back in high school. Then I realized that our dads and grandfathers were riding buses to Lynchburg and Harrisonburg in the 1950s and 1960s, when the roads were much worse.

I remember how awful trips on a bus to Carroll County and Grayson County were back in high school. Then I realized that our dads and grandfathers were riding buses to Lynchburg and Harrisonburg in the 1950s and 1960s, when the roads were much worse.

Not to hijack a thread, but more history behind that tidbit....
The Southwest District was probably founded for the primary reason of allowing its member schools to compete for what was then the Division 1 state championship.  Although designation as champion was still a highly arbitrary process, there were some standards established in the mid 1950s that included a requirement to play a minimum number of games against other Division 1 schools.  For travel and scheduling purposes it made sense for the original members to band together and form the SWD to help meet that requirement.  Graham, Grundy, Richlands, Tazewell, and Virginia High were among the founding members.
The Western District was formed for similar reasons and mostly included schools from Roanoke and Lynchburg.  Since the two areas were still pretty far removed from one another and neither district had enough to fill out a full schedule on their own, there was frequent "cross scheduling" between the SWD and Western District schools throughout the 1960s who were serious about challenging for state honors.  Grundy played Glass pretty consistently.  Tazewell and Graham both played Jefferson pretty regularly.  Richlands played William Fleming and Patrick Henry. 
Virginia High started scheduling Glass and/or Fleming around 1965 as the standards apparently became a bit more restrictive.  Around that time it appears that it became common for the champions of the SWD and the Western District to play each other at the conclusion of the regular season.  Although if one of those teams were undefeated (as was the case with Andrew Lewis in 1966) then a game would be arranged with one of the schools further east to decide the state championship instead.

What is James Monroe HS

What is the Stone Castle
 

What is the Stone Castle