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Felix Field and Loker Stadium

athletics venue at USC

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ60740692 ↗
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Felix Field and Loker Stadium is an outdoor track and field facility located on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The facility, rebuilt in 2001, serves as the outdoor home of the USC Trojans men's and women's track and field teams. The stadium is named for Katherine B. Loker and has a seating capacity of 3,000. The field located at the center of the stadium was previously known as Cromwell Field, originally named after Dean Cromwell, USC’s track and field coach from 1909 to 1948. The University renamed the field in 2023 to honor USC alumnae and US Olympian Allyson Felix. The entrance to the facility is called "Louis Zamperini Plaza" and includes tributes to USC's NCAA and Olympic champions.

Renovations

Felix Field and Loker Stadium both underwent renovations in the winter of 2012–2013. The track and the infield were replaced and the exterior of the stadium was renovated.

Events

During the 1984 Summer Olympics, the facility served as the training track at the USC Olympic Village and the warm-up track for the track and field competition. The facility hosted the PAC-10 conference championship meet in 2003 and PAC-12 conference championship meet in 2013.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Felix Field and Loker Stadium” as athletics venue at USC. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 1909, 1948, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Felix, Field and Loker can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as athletics venue at USC. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60740692. Authority coordinates are 34.021, -118.286. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001, 1909, 1948 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Felix Field and Loker Stadium” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.