Municipal Stadium (Waco) Explained

Municipal Stadium (Kiwanis Field)
Former Names:Waco Stadium (1936–1942)
Location:Waco, Texas
Coordinates:31.5421°N -97.1318°W
Built:1936
Opened:1936
Surface:Grass
Tenants:Baylor Bears (NCAA SWC) (1936–1949)

Municipal Stadium, or Waco Municipal Stadium and formerly Waco Stadium, is an athletics stadium located in Waco, Texas at S 15th Street and Dutton Avenue. It was formerly the home field of Baylor University's athletic teams from the time shortly after the stadium was built in 1936 until 1949. For the Bears, the new off-campus facility replaced the smaller Carroll Field as the home football game location, where they had played from 1930 to 1935.[1] Waco Stadium was renamed Municipal Stadium in 1942. Baylor did not play there in 1943 or 1944 due to World War II.[2] [3] Baylor's track teams used the stadium into the 1950s.[4]

Today the original grandstands are gone, replaced by a single side seating area, but track and playing field remains.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.baylormag.com/story.php?story=006040 Bringing Football Back to Campus
  2. http://www.baylorbears.com/school-bio/bay-casey-stadium.html On Campus
  3. http://www.baylor.edu/homecoming/index.php?id=28779 Baylor's First Homecoming Game
  4. http://www.baptiststandard.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=2658 After a 43-year run, Baylor coach still not winded