Waco Stadium

Opened in 1936

About Waco Stadium

Waco Stadium is a former name of Municipal Stadium, used 1936–1941. Municipal Stadium is recorded as a College Football stadium in Waco, Texas. It opened in 1936. Its only tenant was Baylor Bears (College Football, 1936–1949).

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Venue Information

Year Opened

1936

Location

Waco, Texas 76706

Elevation

416 ft

127 m above sea level

Football field direction

Southeast to northwest

The football field runs southeast to northwest, a bearing of 135 degrees.

Source: OpenStreetMap way/1217257582

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Field direction read from the outline of the field in OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Derived from a traced outline, so it can be a few degrees off.

Teams

Home seasons at Waco Stadium by team, 1936–1949. Bars use each team's colors at the time; the table below lists every season.

Team	League	Years
Baylor Bears While based here: 12 seasons · 64-50-7 regular season · 1 postseason trip College Football · 1936–1949 Southwest Conference 1936–1949 · Major College Territory map on ImperialismMap Carroll Field 1903–1925 Cotton Palace 1926–1929 Carroll Field 1930–1935 Municipal Stadium 1936–1949 Floyd Casey Stadium 1950–2013 McLane Stadium 2014–present	College Football	1936–1949

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

Frequently Asked Questions

When was Waco Stadium built?

Waco Stadium opened in 1936.

Where did the Baylor Bears play before Waco Stadium?

Before moving to Waco Stadium in 1936, the Baylor Bears played at Carroll Field from 1930 to 1935.

Where did the Baylor Bears play after Waco Stadium?

After leaving Waco Stadium in 1949, the Baylor Bears moved to Floyd Casey Stadium in 1950. They played there until 2013.

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
Wikidata (CC0): Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point).
Wikimedia Commons (CC BY): Photograph.

Historical Names

Municipal Stadium

1942 - Present

Waco Stadium

1936 - 1941

Current

Location

Coordinates: 31.5421, -97.1318

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Nearby Venues

Venue	Years	Distance
Cotton Palace		0.3 mi
Carroll Field	1902–1935	0.7 mi
Floyd Casey Stadium	1950–2013	1.2 mi
McLane Stadium	2014–	1.5 mi

Straight-line distance between the venues' coordinates.

References

Teams on Wikipedia

Baylor Bears

Every source for the facts on this page is listed under Sources.