  spartan stadium, located in san jose, california, is the official stadium of the san josÃ© state university spartans athletics teams. it is currently the home of the spartan football and soccer teams. in addition, the stadium hosts high school football and the university commencement ceremony. the university commencement ceremony is held in spartan stadium every year on memorial day weekend. spartan stadium was the home of the san jose earthquakes (originally san josÃ© clash) of major league soccer from the league's inception in 1996 through the 2005 season. other tenants have included the original san jose earthquakes of the north american soccer league from 1974 to 1984, the san jose cyberrays of the women's united soccer association from 2001 to 2003, and the san francisco dragons of major league lacrosse in 2008. soccer bowl '75 was also held at spartan stadium. during the winter and spring of 2009, the stadium's natural turf was removed and replaced with fieldturf, a new generation of artificial turf with a crumb rubber and sand infill. this improvement has resulted in significant savings to the university in water use, fertilizer a
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