The Whittier Field Athletic Complex at Bowdoin College is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places at the local level under Criterion A, Entertainment and Recreation, as a collegiate athletic facility and under Criterion C, Architecture, as a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. The grouping of the three major components (field, grandstand, and gate) along with related secondary elements (goal posts, scoreboard, flagpole, etc.) creates an identifiable historic district at the local level. The gate retains a high degree of integrity, the grandstand a good degree of integrity, and the field has sufficient integrity to contribute. The track surface has changed from clay and cinders to a synthetic material, but the design, feeling, association, setting, and location of the field are sufficiently intact even with reduced integrity of workmanship and materials. The Whittier Field athletic complex at Bowdoin College includes Whittier Field (1896), Hubbard Grandstand (1904), and the Class of 1903 Memorial Gate (1928), a related group of facilities developed for intercollegiate football and track and field competitions at Bowdoin College. Hubbard Grandstand was designed by English-born Boston architect Henry Vaughan (1845 -1917) and the Class of 1903 Memorial Gate was designed by Bowdoin graduate and Lewiston architect Harry S. Coombs (1878-1939). The period of significance is 1896 to 1967, extending from the construction date of the earliest contributing element of the complex until fifty years before the present.