Bragg Memorial Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida

Bragg Memorial Stadium is the home football stadium of the Florida A&M Rattlers on the FAMU campus in Tallahassee, with a current listed capacity of 19,633.

FAMU Athletics lists the stadium as originally built in 1957 with state appropriations and named for the father and son team of J.B. 'Jubie' Bragg and Eugene Bragg, saying Eugene Bragg coached the Rattlers during the early 1930s and 1940s. The original capacity was 10,700 and the first stadium contained a dirt track. Since 2023 the playing surface has carried a second name, Ken Riley Field, and FAMU's 2026 football schedule lists every Rattler home game as played at Ken Riley Field at Bragg Memorial Stadium on the FAMU campus.

The stadium's story, as FAMU tells it, runs in three stages: the 1957 build, an expansion in the 1980s to about 25,500 seats, and repairs since 2020 paid for with a grant from the Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency, which Leon County's budget lists alongside its Office of Economic Vitality sports tourism projects. Each stage left something still visible on game day, from the Galimore-Powell Field House to the 2023 video board in the north end zone.

FAMU says Bragg was renovated and expanded in the 1980s to seat some 25,500 spectators, with a new field house to match.

The university's history page places the work in a 1980s building push that also expanded the Gaither Athletic Center with a Women's Athletic Complex, track, Olympic pool and softball and baseball fields: Bragg Memorial Stadium was renovated and expanded to provide seating for some 25,500 spectators, and a modern field house was erected. The FAMU Athletics facility page lists a 1980 renovation that expanded the press box, added a press box elevator and two electronic scoreboards, and lowered the field by six feet to make room for the drain and sprinkler systems.

The field house is the Galimore-Powell Field House, which FAMU Athletics says opened in February 1983. It is named for Willie Galimore, a four-time All-American drafted by the Chicago Bears in 1956, and Nathaniel 'Traz' Powell, a Rattler end of the late 1940s who compiled a 167-37-3 record over 21 seasons from 1949 through 1969 as head coach at Miami's Carver and Mays high schools. Inside are a deep well whirlpool, locker rooms for both teams and referees, coaches' offices, meeting rooms, a weight room and an equipment and laundry room.

Safety repairs paid for by a Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency grant rebuilt the east and west bleachers in 2021 and 2022, followed by a new video board in 2023.

A March 2021 FAMU Board of Trustees audit committee report describes the plan. A 2018-19 risk assessment had flagged Bragg Stadium safety and maintenance, and Athletics, with Finance and Administration, set two phases: Phase 1, scheduled from November 3, 2020, to September 30, 2021, for replacing all steel pans and seats and water blasting and repainting the steel frame, and Phase 2 for removing and replacing the press box, renovating concession stands and restrooms, and upgrading the stadium lighting and sound system. The report says FAMU secured funding through the Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency grant for both phases and that Barkley Engineering certified the press box and seating for the 2021 season.

The FAMU Athletics facility page records the result in Tallahassee: the east-side bleachers were redone in 2021, the west-side bleachers and an updated press box followed in 2022, and in 2023 a new video board went up in the north end zone with new field displays and a ribbon board on the field house. FAMU's 2020-2030 campus master plan says that through funding received from the Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency the university has overcome some of the challenges of deterioration at Bragg Memorial Stadium, and Leon County's FY 2023 budget lists FAMU Bragg Stadium among the sports tourism capital projects being carried out by the county's Office of Economic Vitality.

The FAMU Board of Trustees named the field for Ken Riley on June 8, 2023, because he is the only person in FAMU history to play football, coach the team and serve as athletics director.

FAMU Athletics reported that the board unanimously approved the name Ken Riley Field at Bragg Memorial Stadium at its Thursday, June 8, 2023, meeting on the recommendation of athletics director Tiffani-Dawn Sykes. As a student-athlete Riley quarterbacked Alonzo 'Jake' Gaither's teams to a 23-7 record and three Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships, was a Rhodes Scholarship candidate and was picked in the sixth round of the 1969 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals, where he moved to cornerback and finished 15 seasons with 65 interceptions, fifth most all time.

The dedication followed on Ken Riley Day. FAMU Athletics announced a field dedication at Bragg Memorial Stadium at 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, September 16, 2023, with Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey presenting a proclamation at halftime naming the day Ken Riley Day in Tallahassee. That night, the game recap says, the Rattlers beat West Florida 31-10 in their first game on Ken Riley Field, their 16th straight win at Bragg.

The largest crowd FAMU lists at Bragg Memorial Stadium is 33,954 for Morgan State in 1996, well above the current listed capacity of 19,633.

The FAMU Athletics list includes only one game since the 2021 bleacher work began, the 31,887 who watched Grambling State in 2021. FAMU does not explain on the page how crowds above the posted capacity were seated, so the figures are shown as the university lists them.

FAMU's 2026 schedule lists six home games at Ken Riley Field at Bragg Memorial Stadium in Tallahassee, three already played by mid-October.

The September 19 game against Tennessee State was part of a FAMU Hall of Fame Weekend, and the October 24 game against Arkansas-Pine Bluff is the homecoming game. The schedule notes that all times are Eastern and subject to change. Several of the Rattlers' biggest 2026 games are not at Bragg at all: the Orange Blossom Classic against South Carolina State was played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, and the game against Bethune-Cookman is set for Camping World Stadium in Orlando on November 21.

Last verified: October 18, 2026, on FAMU Athletics' Bragg facility page, 2026 schedule and 2023 naming and Ken Riley Day releases, FAMU's history page, campus master plan and March 2021 audit committee report, and Leon County's FY 2023 budget.