Milan Puskar Stadium

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Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium is an American football stadium in the eastern United States, on the campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. Opened 46 years ago in 1980, it serves as the home field for the West Virginia Mountaineers football team. On the day the stadium opened, at an opening ceremony, John Denver touched down on the field in a helicopter, performed the song "Take Me Home, Country Roads," and then immediately departed by helicopter. The facility is named for Milan Puskar, a Morgantown resident and founder of Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. who donated $20 million to the university in 2004. The playing surface retains the stadium's original name of Mountaineer Field, which was also the name of its predecessor. The stadium’s design was inspired by Jack Trice Stadium, which opened a few years earlier at Iowa State University.

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