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Baylor Bears football

Baylor Bears football
2017 Baylor Bears football team
Baylor University Athletics (logo).svg
First season 1898; 119 years ago (1898)
Athletic director Mack Rhoades
Head coach Matt Rhule
1st year, 0–0 (–)
Stadium McLane Stadium
Year built 2014
Seating capacity 45,140
Field surface Field Turf
Location Waco, Texas
NCAA division Division I FBS
Conference Big 12
All-time record 588–557–44 (.513)
Bowl record 12–11 (.522)
Conference titles 9
Heisman winners 1
Consensus All-Americans 16
Current uniform
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Colors Green and Gold
         
Fight song Old Fite
Mascot American Black Bear, Costumed (mascot) Bruiser
Marching band The Golden Wave Band
Rivals TCU Horned Frogs
Texas Longhorns
Texas Tech Red Raiders
Texas A&M Aggies
SMU Mustangs
Website BaylorBears.com

The Baylor Bears football team represents Baylor University in Division I FBS college football. They are a member of the Big 12 Conference. After 64 seasons at the off-campus Floyd Casey Stadium, the Bears opened the new on-campus McLane Stadium for the 2014 season.

Baylor University's football team has seen a wide variation in its success through the years, including an undefeated 3-0 perfect record in 1900.

Initially, starting in the year 1898, the university played its home games on an undetermined field near the university campus. Beginning in 1905, the team's home games were played at Carroll Field, between the Carroll Science Building and Waco Creek. Baylor did not adopt a mascot (the Baylor Bears) until December 14, 1914, after the completion of the 1914 football season.[2] Additionally, Baylor did not join an athletic conference until 1914 after the conclusion of the football season, when it became a founding member of the Southwest Conference. Baylor played its first home game against Toby's Business College (located in Waco) in 1899, its first away game on 4 November 1900, at Austin College, and its first neutral-site game against Texas A&M in 1901.

For the 1899 and 1900 seasons, the team was coached by R.H. Hamilton, whose 5–1–1 record was distinguished with never having a losing record; in 1899, Baylor played, and lost, its first game against Texas A&M, which would become a rivalry (until 2012 when Texas A&M changed conferences), the Battle of the Brazos, with over 100 games played in the series by 2003. W.J. Ritchie coached the 1901 team, leading it to a 5–3 record; in this year, the first games of the Baylor-Texas and Baylor-TCU series were played. Texas Christian University (known as AddRan Male & Female College until 1902) was located in Waco from 1895 to 1910 and was one of Baylor's greatest football rivals until the dissolution of the Southwest Conference in 1995. The 1901 season also welcomed Baylor's first Thanksgiving Day football game, with a 28–0 win over St. Edward's University. J.C. Ewing took control of the team in 1902, and led it to its first losing season, with a 3–4–2 record. R.N. Watts restored Baylor's winning tradition in 1903, with a record of 4–3–1.


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