What was moved across campus to the current location was actually the New Beaver Field, which was located along Park Avenue, next to the Nittany Lion Inn.
Here’s a
campus map from 1957.
The field was never named until it was moved up near Park Avenue in 1909 and dedicated in honor of James A. Beaver. The original field near Osmond was just called the Athletic Field. It gets confusing since even the University refers to the original field as Old Beaver Field even though it was never named that.
Here’s a bit of trivia for you. Charles Klauder, the architect for many buildings on campus, including the Beaver Field expansion in the 1930s, drafted a campus plan that would have built a new stadium on Atherton Street, where the Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel is. Imagine the traffic that would have caused over the years.
’New’ Beaver Field from the 1950s
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‘New’ Beaver Field from the 1920s-30s (I think) You can see that they moved the original grandstand up to this location.
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‘Old’ Beaver Field, which was down in the area of Osmond. This view shows it behind the old Chemistry Building which no longer exists.
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Here’s another view of campus from the tower of the original Old Main @ 1905-1909
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