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==Stadium name change==
The stadium's original namesake was [[Curley Byrd|Harry C. "Curley" Byrd]], a former Maryland football player who later taught English and history and served as athletic director before rising to university president, serving from 1935 until 1954. During his tenure, the campus grew significantly, and Byrd is credited with transforming UMD from "an undistinguished agricultural college to something resembling a modern university."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wood |first1=Pamela |title=University of Maryland president calls for renaming of Byrd Stadium |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-md-byrd-stadium-20151207-story.html |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=December 7, 2015 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207215710/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-byrd-stadium-20151207-story.html/ |archive-date=December 7, 2015 }}</ref> However, in 2015, the Maryland Student Government Association passed resolution in support of removing Byrd's name from the stadium because of his prominent support of segregation during his tenure.<ref>{{cite news |first=Susan |last=Svrluga |title=U-Maryland student government endorses demand that Byrd stadium be renamed, citing racist legacy |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/04/08/u-md-students-demand-byrd-stadium-be-renamed-citing-racist-legacy |work=The Washington Post |date=April 8, 2015 |access-date=April 8, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Joe |last=Burris |title=Student coalition seeks to get 'Byrd' off University of Maryland's stadium |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bs-md-byrd-stadium-name-20150409-story.html |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |date=April 9, 2015 |access-date=April 9, 2015}}</ref> That same year, then-university president [[Wallace Loh]] appointed a task force to consider the issue. Loh issued a recommendation to the [[University System of Maryland]] to change the name, and the Board of Regents voted 12-5 in December 2015 to rename the facility as "Maryland Stadium."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-byrd-stadium-vote-20151211-story.html |title=Byrd Stadium to become Maryland Stadium after regents vote |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |date=December 11, 2015 |access-date=December 11, 2015 |last=Wenger |first=Yvonne}}</ref>
On September 16, 2022, the university announced that the stadium would be renamed [[State Employees Credit Union of Maryland|SECU]] Stadium as part of a 10-year deal between the credit union and the university.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Edward |last=Lee |title=Maryland football stadium to be renamed SECU Stadium under terms of 10-year deal |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/terps/bs-sp-maryland-football-stadium-secu-naming-rights-20220916-grq4cdtibrgfbabnlxyovh6xkm-story.html |date=September 16, 2022 |access-date=September 16, 2022 |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun}}</ref>
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