Drake Field (stadium)
Construction | |
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Broke ground | 1909 |
Opened | October 7, 1911 |
Tenants | |
Auburn University Tigers (football) (1911–1939) Auburn University Tigers (baseball) (1911–1949) |
Drake Field was an American football, baseball, and track stadium on the campus of Auburn University, in Auburn, Alabama, United States. From 1911 to 1939, Drake field was the home field of the Auburn University Tigers football team. The stadium was also home to the Auburn University Tigers baseball team from 1911 through 1949, and the Auburn High School Tigers football team from 1911 through 1920 and 1935 through 1939. It had a capacity of 7,550 in 1939.[1]
History
Drake Field was named for John Hodges Drake III, who served as the college physician from 1873 until 1926 and who donated the land for the field.[2] The field was inaugurated on October 7, 1911, with the college football team's 29–0 win over Mercer. Two months later on the field, Auburn High School played the program's first football game, against Sidney Lanier High School, on November 25, 1911.[3]
Auburn High School continued to play football at the stadium until moving to their on-campus stadium
References
- ^ Fred Turbyville, The Blue Book of College Athletics (Baltimore: F. Turbyville, 1939), 39.
- ^ "Auburn Men Glory in Athletic Field", Montgomery Advertiser, October 13, 1911; Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, Auburn: A Pictorial History of the Loveliest Village(Auburn: s.n., 1996), 64.
- ^ "Auburn Men Glory in Athletic Field", Montgomery Advertiser, October 13, 1911; AHSFHS.org, "Auburn - 1911", retrieved August 16, 2008.
- ^ Opelika Daily News, September 21, 1921Opelika Daily News, November 2, 1935.