University of Maryland President Wallace D. Loh is proposing changing the name of the College Park football stadium from Byrd Stadium — which honors a longtime campus president who opposed integration — to Maryland Stadium.
The University System of Maryland's Board of Regents, which has oversight of building names, will consider Loh's request at its meeting in College Park on Friday.
"This is a difficult and emotion-laden issue," Loh said in a campus-wide email announcing his decision Monday afternoon. "Any outcome will likely please few."
Harry C. "Curley" Byrd was a former football player who taught English and history and served as athletic director, eventually rising to university president.