Sanford Stadium, College football stadium in Athens, Georgia, United States

Sanford Stadium, known as Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium, is the on-campus American football venue of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Its oval bowl has two main tiers of red seats and a smaller upper deck on the far side, with a tall dark steel lattice tower rising above the rim. The natural grass field, marked with white yard lines and a central oval "G" logo, is surrounded by privet hedges.

The stadium opened in 1929 with a capacity for 30,000 spectators and was financed through loans guaranteed by supporters of the university. Over the decades it was expanded multiple times so that today nearly 93,000 people can fit inside.

The grass is framed by privet hedges that have been part of the stadium for decades and are maintained by students and volunteers. Game days draw tens of thousands of fans wearing red and black jerseys who set up grills and celebrate on the surrounding lawns of the campus before kickoff.

The stadium has multiple entrances around the outer ring that are assigned to different sections on game days. Parking lots are located on campus grounds and in the nearby area, but become crowded on game days so many visitors use buses or walk instead.

The stadium sits in a natural valley, and Tanyard Creek was enclosed in a concrete culvert beneath the playing field. In the era of passenger rail travel, Central of Georgia Railway executives parked the company's presidential railcar, Atlanta, on tracks overlooking the end zone; in the 1970s fans known as the "Track People" watched games from those same tracks until the 1981 expansion blocked the view.