Yunevich Stadium

Yunevich Stadium is the home of the Saxon football, lacrosse and soccer teams while it is also used for intramural sports such as soccer and flag football. Combining the rosters of those teams with students participating in physical education classes and intramural teams, well over 400 AU students use Yunevich Stadium each year.

Yunevich Stadium is retrofitted with a state-of-the-art FieldTurf Vertex artificial turf with alternating shades of green every 10 yards installed in 2023, home grandstands with 210 box-style seats and aluminum bleachers with the capacity to seat 1,435 spectators, a press box installed in 2010, a concession stand and the Greg Connors Family Pavilion. Visitor bleachers with the seating capacity of approximately 1,355 are located on the far side of the stadium. The stadium is now adorned with the Bob '66 and Pat Codispoti video scoreboard, installed and dedicated in 2018.

The new field features are:
-FieldTurf Vertex artificial turf with alternating shades of green every 10 yards
-FIT Turf synthetic turf around the apron to allow a run-off area for athletes
-Athletic logo in the center of the field with "ALFRED" and "SAXONS" installed in the endzones
-Change in line striping to better represent school colors
-Efficient water drainage around the turf surface
-In-ground water and electric lines

Yunevich Stadium is named after legendary football coach, Alexander Yunevich, the winningest coach in Alfred University football history.

Yunevich headed the program from 1937 to 1976, with only a break from 1942 to 1946 where Yunevich spent time serving in the U.S. Navy. He completed his career with a 177-85-12 record, six undefeated seasons and countless coaching honors including the 1956 Small College National Coach of the Year honor. Yunevich is noted as bringing "unprecedented national attention" to a small college football program - even being featured in the October 21, 1974 edition of Sports Illustrated in an article titled Head coach, prewar model by Larry Keith. Yunevich also coached golf, wrestling and basketball at AU.

The field within Yunevich Stadium itself is named Merrill Field, titled after John J. Merrill, an 1884 graduate of Alfred University. Merrill was an Alfred University Board of Trustee that donated the property for the athletic fields in the early 1900's that still serve as the site of the athletic fields today. Merrill has also been affectionately referred to as "The Pit" by the student-athletes at Alfred University.