Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium is an outdoor football stadium in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. A state-owned facility, Veterans Memorial Stadium is the home field of the Jackson State University Tigers; it also plays host to the MHSAA state championship game every fall and other special events, including several NFL exhibition games.

The stadium will host a preseason game between the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts on August 26, 2006.

After initially being built in 1941 with stands on both sides of the field, the northwest corner was bowled in 1980 to increase the seating capacity to its current size; until the recent expansion of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Veterans Stadium was the largest sports facility in Mississippi.

Historically, Veterans Memorial Stadium was the site of many important college football games in Mississippi history, as Ole Miss and Mississippi State University regularly played in the stadium (while maintaining home fields in Oxford and Starkville), most famously in the annual Egg Bowl contests between the two schools, as well as rivarly games against LSU, until the early 1990s. The University of Southern Mississippi made regular appearances as well, playing both UM and MSU as well as games against such schools as Texas A&M. The stadium continues to host the annual Capital City Classic between Jackson State and Alcorn State University, both of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

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