University system regents voted Friday to take Curley Byrd's name off Maryland's football stadium.
The University System of Maryland Board of Regents voted at a Friday meeting to rename Byrd Stadium, the home since 1950 of the Terps football program, "Maryland Stadium." Four of 17 regents voted against the change.
The vote follows a recommendation earlier this week by Wallace Loh, the University of Maryland's president, to transition the name away from Curley Byrd, a former president and athletic director whose segregationist policy positions kept black students off Maryland's campus until courts interceded in the 1950s.