Maryland Considering Changing Name of Stadium

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Wallace Loh, the president of the University of Maryland, announced on Monday that he was recommending renaming Byrd Stadium, home of the school’s football team.

Harry Clifton Byrd, the stadium’s namesake and long-honored alum of the university, served as its president from 1936 to 1954. However, Byrd barred black students from enrolling at the University of Maryland until he was forced by court order to admit black students. Byrd also ran for governor on a segregationist platform.

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