The University of Delaware Blue Hens play their games at the Tubby Raymond Field that is a 22,000-seat Delaware Stadium located in Newark, Delaware. The team has won six national titles in their 116-year history - 1946 (AP College Div.), 1963 (UPI College Div.), 1971 (AP/UPI College Div.), 1972 (AP/UPI College Div.), 1979 (D-II) and 2003 (I-AA).

The Blue Hens are recognized as a very strong power in FCS football and are the only FCS program to average more than 20,000 fans per regular season game for each of the past seven years. The team has out beaten all the other college football programs in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, with the exception of Temple University in the year 2007. Kurt Charles Keeler, who is currently the head coach of this football team, was born on July 26 in the year 1959.

He was the former linebacker with the Fightin' Blue Hens from the years 1978–1980 under coach Harold "Tubby" Raymond. He began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Amherst College in the year 1981 and then at Rowan University in the year 1986. He became Rowan’s head coach starting with the 1993 season, ending his tenure in the year 2001 with an 88-21-1 record and seven NCAA Division III playoff appearances. Delaware was ranked fourth in the nation in average home attendance last season held in the year 2007. The attendance record was of 21,510 spectators, when the Hens went down by a margin of 11-4 and played in the Division I FCS title game losing to three-time defending champions Appalachian State.