Lobos to Get A New Field

The University of New Mexico Lobo Football Team will be lucky enough to have a brand new football field when their season starts in a month.  The new field will be artificial turf and it will be named Branch Field.  This is in thanks to the generous donation of Margaret and Turner Branch.   This is the second largest donation in the University's history and counts towards the various campaigns that are going on for the school right now.

The University of New Mexico Lobo football team will be playing on a new artificial turf surface this season that will now be named “Branch Field.”

Margaret and Turner Branch, owners of Albuquerque’s Branch Law Firm, have contributed $1.5 million to UNM athletics for the naming rights to the football field at University Stadium.

UNM officials said the donation is the second-largest gift ever made to UNM athletics by living individuals and counts toward the $75 million goal of the “Lobo Leap to Excellence” capital campaign for athletics, as well as the university-wide comprehensive campaign, “Changing Worlds: The Campaign for UNM.”

UNM will recognize the Branches during halftime of the season opening football game on Sept. 1, when the Lobos play host to Southern University.

Turner Branch is a 1960 graduate of UNM, where he served as president of the student body. Margaret Branch earned her law degree in 1978 from the UNM School of Law.