Qualla: Mitchell Stadium https://qualla.com/mitchell-stadium en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/w/5/mitchell-stadium-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mitchell Stadium https://qualla.com/mitchell-stadium Mitchell Stadium: Introduction https://qualla.com/mitchell-stadium/ Photo credit Davebanner12, CC BY-SA 4.0. On Friday nights in autumn, the cars start arriving four hours before kickoff. They come from both Bluefields — West Virginia on one side of the city park, Virginia on the other — and the line that divides the states runs right through the bleachers and across the 50-yard line. Mitchell Stadium is 10,000 seats of concrete and Appalachian devotion, the rare American venue where the home crowd is also the visiting crowd, and the rivalry between the Bluefield Beavers and the Graham G-Men packs the stands so full that the people who arrive late have to listen to the game from their parked trucks on the surrounding hillside.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/w/5/mitchell-stadium-wp/dnw5-mitchell-stadium-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mitchell Stadium: A City Manager's Crusade https://qualla.com/mitchell-stadium/ Photo credit Davebanner12, CC BY-SA 4.0. The stadium exists because of Emory P. Mitchell, who started his Bluefield career in 1907 as a 22-year-old bookkeeper at a dry-goods store on Princeton Avenue and ended it as the city manager who refused to let the Great Depression keep his town from building something permanent....

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/w/5/mitchell-stadium-wp/dnw5-mitchell-stadium-a-city-managers-crusade.mp3 0:06 2 full Mitchell Stadium: Beavers and G-Men https://qualla.com/mitchell-stadium/ Photo credit Davebanner12, CC BY-SA 4.0. The annual Beaver-Graham game draws around 12,000 people to a stadium that officially seats 10,000. Bluefield High School and Graham High School are separated by a state line and by a city park, and that's it. They have played each other since 1936. The Beavers lead the all-time ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/w/5/mitchell-stadium-wp/dnw5-mitchell-stadium-beavers-and-g-men.mp3 0:06 3 full Mitchell Stadium: America's Best https://qualla.com/mitchell-stadium/ Photo credit Davebanner12, CC BY-SA 4.0. On November 4, 2019, USA Today's bracket-style poll for America's Best High School Football Stadium came down to a final between Mitchell Stadium and R.R. Jones Stadium in El Paso, Texas. Mitchell won with nearly 60 percent of more than 3.6 million votes cast. Bluefield Mayor Ron...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/w/5/mitchell-stadium-wp/dnw5-mitchell-stadium-americas-best.mp3 0:06 4 full Mitchell Stadium: More Than One Game https://qualla.com/mitchell-stadium/ Photo credit Davebanner12, CC BY-SA 4.0. Mitchell Stadium has hosted more than just high school football. West Virginia and Virginia Tech played each other here in 1953, and the Hokies came back for a soccer game in 2007. Bluefield University's Rams returned to the field in 2012 after a 71-year absence — the program had...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/w/5/mitchell-stadium-wp/dnw5-mitchell-stadium-more-than-one-game.mp3 0:06 5 full Mitchell Stadium: What the Stadium Means https://qualla.com/mitchell-stadium/ Photo credit Davebanner12, CC BY-SA 4.0. Walk into Mitchell Stadium on an empty afternoon and the WPA stonework still feels like the New Deal made permanent. Field turf laid by the June Shott Foundation in 2007 replaced the grass that Bluefield kids played on for seven decades. There have been efforts over the years to ...

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