Rice–Totten Field, Football stadium at Mississippi Valley State University, United States.
Rice-Totten Field is an American football stadium on the campus of Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, Mississippi. It has an artificial turf playing surface and covered seating along both sides of the field.
The stadium opened in 1958 under the name Magnolia Stadium and was the center of campus athletics from the start. It was renamed in 2000 to honor two former players, Jerry Rice and Willie Totten, who had shaped the university's football program.
The stadium carries the names of Jerry Rice and Willie Totten, MVSU players who set NCAA Division I-AA records in the 1980s. Rice then spent 20 years in the NFL and entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame; Totten played professionally, then coached the Delta Devils from 2002 to 2009.
The stadium is in Itta Bena, Mississippi, on the campus of Mississippi Valley State University. The playing field was renamed Charles "Chuck" Prophet Field in 2005. The venue seats 10,000 spectators.
Willie Totten, one of the two namesakes of the stadium, later returned as head coach and led the team at the very facility where he had played. It is rare in college football for a former player to both have a stadium named after him and then coach at that same stadium.
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