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Bible Memorial Stadium (Leander, Texas)

USA / Texas / Leander / Leander, Texas
 stadium, american football stadium, track and field ground
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14,000 capacity
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Coordinates:   30°32'11"N   97°50'57"W

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  • BradRCo
    Home of the Cedar Park Timberwolves, Leander Lions, Vista Ridge Rangers, and soon the Rouse Raiders. Capacity 14,000. This stadium was originally built as Barrett Stadium in 1949- in Odessa! When Ector County ISD built Ratliff Stadium in the early 1980s, this facility was dismantled and stored. In about 1985, with the construction of the then-new expanded Leander High, LISD bought the disassembled stadium and trucked its pieces to this spot and reassembled it, albeit it backwards, as the press box and home side - ALWAYS with their back to the afternoon sun - was erroneously placed on the east side. It was named Lion Stadium upon reconstruction, as only Leander High existed in LISD until 1998, when Cedar Park High was built. At that point, the facility was renamed "A.C. Bible Memorial" after a long-time LISD figure. Vista Ridge opened in 2005 and began playing their games here, as well. New Rouse HS opens in 2008 and Bible Stadium is now overcrowded. A recent LISD decision has been made to build two more football stadiums in the district. Rouse and Leander will share Bible. Cedar Park and Vista Ridge will share a new large stadium, and planned Vandergrift High on Ranch Road 2222 in far west Austin will have its own small stadium. (Due to transportation logistics involving the shape of LISD and the placement of roads and populous areas, travel to any other stadium by Vandergrift was considered prohibitive).
  • bcone (guest)
    The overhead has now been updated to show the new Bible Stadium. The old one referred to in the original commentary was razed between the 2008 and 2009 seasons, and the brand new stadium was built on the same spot in a matter of months.
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