Carroll Field

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Baylor University in 1892. Carroll Field was located alongside Waco Creek and adjacent to Old Main. Baylor University 1892.png
Baylor University in 1892. Carroll Field was located alongside Waco Creek and adjacent to Old Main.
Caroll Field
Carroll Field
Location Waco, Texas
Coordinates 31°32′49″N97°07′15″W / 31.546867°N 97.120866°W / 31.546867; -97.120866
Owner Baylor University
Capacity 15,000 (1930s)
Surfacegrass
Construction
Opened1902
Renovated1915 (Lee Carroll Field's Athletic Building)
Closed1935
Demolished1939–1940
Tenants
Baylor Bears (1902–1925, 1930–1935)

Carroll Field was an exhibition ground in Waco, Texas, owned by Baylor University; the Baylor Bears football program played games there from 1902 to 1925, with the exception of 1906 when football was banned on campus, and from 1930 to 1935. [1] Following the construction of the Carroll Science Building in 1902, the field was located between the building and Waco Creek; the field took over as the location of football games from an unnamed field adjacent to and northwest of Old Main. [2] Lee Carroll made a donation for the field to be constructed, and his father and grandfather had also donated to build the Carroll Science Building and Carroll Library. [3] From 1926 to 1929, Baylor football games were played at the Cotton Palace in Waco. During Baylor's first season, they were beat 33–0 by Texas A&M, but the Waco Times-Herald attempted to make the loss positive, saying, "For an eleven many of whose players did not know the shape of the oval until this season, Baylor put up a fair exhibition.” [4]

During Thanksgiving Day 1909, Carroll Field was the location of Baylor's first Homecoming football game; the 5,000 attendees to the football game paid US$1 each and, at the time, the crowd was known as the largest ever[ clarification needed ]. In the football game, Baylor defeated Texas Christian University, who had shut out Baylor in their last two games, 63. [5]

Student Union Building

Current Student Union Building on the site of the former Caroll Field Bill daniel student center.jpg
Current Student Union Building on the site of the former Caroll Field

In 1940, groundbreaking began for Baylor University's Student Union Building on the location of Carroll Field, [6] but since 1935, the new Waco Stadium had hosted Baylor football games. The Student Union Building now has the Carroll Field sign proudly displayed on a wall inside.

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