Municipal Stadium, or Waco Municipal Stadium and formerly Waco Stadium, is an athletics stadium located in

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at S 15th Street and Dutton Avenue. It was formerly the home field of

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'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. Waco Stadium was renamed Municipal Stadium in 1942. Baylor did not play there in 1943 or 1944 due to

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.On Campus
, Baylor University, retrieved June 11, 2009. Baylor's track teams used the stadium into the 1950s.After a 43-year run, Baylor coach still not winded
''The Baptist Standard'', November 29, 2004. Today the original grandstands are gone, replaced by a single side seating area, but track and playing field remains.

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