NCAA Division I-AA Championship Game To Remain in Chattanooga
12/13/2005 12:00:00 AM | Football
The Division I-AA Football Championship will continue in Chattanooga through 2007, with an option for a third year in 2008, under the terms of a new contract agreement, according to Roachel Laney, chairman of the Division I-AA Football Committee.
??The NCAA and Chattanooga have had a great partnership since the championship first came to the city in 1997, and this allows Chattanooga to become synonymous with I-AA football,?? Laney said. ??The community of Chattanooga responded to the adversity related to the field conditions in 2004 by raising the funds to install a state of the art playing surface that we can all be proud of. The national audience and those in attendance at this year??s championship will be impressed with what they see.??
This year will mark the ninth straight championship game that the Greater Chattanooga Sports and Events Committee and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have been the host.
In the previous eight years, the total attendance for the championships has been 124,588 with an average of 15,574 per game. Last year, James Madison defeated Montana 31-21 in last year??s title game in front of a crowd of 16,771 people.
A new addition to W. Max Finley Stadium/Gordon L. Davenport Field in the spring of 2005 was the installation of a new polyetheylene artificial turf surface, a state-of-the-art plastic grass.
The 2005 I-AA Football Championship game between Appalachian State and Northern Iowa will be held this Friday, Dec. 16, at W. Max Finley Stadium/Gordon L. Davenport Field at 8:04 (ET) on ESPN2.
??The NCAA and Chattanooga have had a great partnership since the championship first came to the city in 1997, and this allows Chattanooga to become synonymous with I-AA football,?? Laney said. ??The community of Chattanooga responded to the adversity related to the field conditions in 2004 by raising the funds to install a state of the art playing surface that we can all be proud of. The national audience and those in attendance at this year??s championship will be impressed with what they see.??
This year will mark the ninth straight championship game that the Greater Chattanooga Sports and Events Committee and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have been the host.
In the previous eight years, the total attendance for the championships has been 124,588 with an average of 15,574 per game. Last year, James Madison defeated Montana 31-21 in last year??s title game in front of a crowd of 16,771 people.
A new addition to W. Max Finley Stadium/Gordon L. Davenport Field in the spring of 2005 was the installation of a new polyetheylene artificial turf surface, a state-of-the-art plastic grass.
The 2005 I-AA Football Championship game between Appalachian State and Northern Iowa will be held this Friday, Dec. 16, at W. Max Finley Stadium/Gordon L. Davenport Field at 8:04 (ET) on ESPN2.
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