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Yulman replaced the Superdome as the home stadium of Tulane Green Wave football after 39 seasons at that venue, and it is situated on the university's Uptown campus between the Tulane baseball team's Turchin Stadium and the former site of Tulane's last on-campus football stadium, Tulane Stadium. [13]
The Green Wave have also played at the second Tulane Stadium, first Tulane Stadium, Athletic Park and Crescent City Base Ball Park. [16] Because Tulane's campus is landlocked within Uptown New Orleans, Yulman is tightly fit within its athletic footprint and directly abutting the surrounding neighborhood. The stadium has a capacity of 30,000 ...
The 2024 Tulane Green Wave football team represented Tulane University in the American Athletic Conference (AAC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Green Wave were led by Jon Sumrall in his first year as the head coach.
Tulane's nickname was adopted during the 1920 season, after a song titled "The Rolling Green Wave" was published in the Tulane Hullabaloo in 1920. From 1893 to 1919 the athletic teams of Tulane were officially known as "The Olive and Blue", for the official school colors.
A month later, after the new nickname gained acceptance, the student newspaper referred to the team as the Green Wave in a game report for Tulane-Mississippi A&M. By the end of the 1920 season ...
The 2023 American Conference Championship Game featured the Tulane Green Wave as the #1 seed, and the SMU Mustangs as the #2 seed. This was the second consecutive American title game appearance for Tulane and its second overall. The Green Wave won its previous appearance in 2022.
The 2016 Tulane Green Wave football team represented Tulane University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Green Wave played their home games at Yulman Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, and competed in the West Division of American Athletic Conference (AAC). They were led by first-year head coach Willie Fritz. They finished ...
The stadium was opened in 1926 with a seating capacity of roughly 35,000—the lower level of the final configuration's sideline seats. Tulane Stadium was built on Tulane University's campus (before 1871, Tulane's campus was a backwoods portion of Paul Foucher's property, where on a plantation closer to the river, Foucher's father-in-law, Étienne de Boré, had first granulated sugar from cane ...