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The Baylor Bears football group speaks to Baylor University in Division I FBS school football. They are an individual from the Big 12 Conference. After 64 seasons at the off-grounds Floyd Casey Stadium, the Bears opened the new on-grounds McLane Stadium for the 2014 season.

Baylor University's football group has seen a wide variety in its prosperity as the years progressed, including an undefeated 3– 0 ideal record in 1900.

At first, beginning in the year 1898, the college played its home amusements on an anonymous field close to the college grounds. Starting in 1905, the group's home recreations were played at Carroll Field, between the Carroll Science Building and Waco Creek. Baylor did not embrace a mascot (the Baylor Bears) until December 14, 1914, after the culmination of the 1914 football season.[2] Additionally, Baylor did not join an athletic meeting until the point that 1914 after the finish of the football season, when it turned into an establishing individual from the Southwest Conference. Baylor played its first home amusement against Toby's Business College (situated in Waco) in 1899, its first away diversion on 4 November 1900, at Austin College, and its first unbiased site amusement against Texas A&M in 1901.

For the 1899 and 1900 seasons, the group was instructed by R.H. Hamilton, whose 5– 1– 1 record was recognized with never having a losing record; in 1899, Baylor played, and lost, its first amusement against Texas A&M, which would turn into a contention (until 2012 when Texas A&M changed gatherings), the Battle of the Brazos, with more than 100 recreations played in the arrangement by 2003. W.J. Ritchie instructed the 1901 group, driving it to a 5– 3 record; in this year, the primary diversions of the Baylor-Texas and Baylor-TCU arrangement were played. Texas Christian University (known as AddRan Male and Female College until 1902) was situated in Waco from 1895 to 1910 and was one of Baylor's most noteworthy football rivals until the disintegration of the Southwest Conference in 1995. The 1901 season additionally respected Baylor's first Thanksgiving Day football game, with a 28– 0 prevail upon St. Edward's University. J.C. Ewing took control of the group in 1902, and drove it to its initially losing season, with a 3– 4– 2 record. R.N. Watts reestablished Baylor's triumphant custom in 1903, with a record of 4– 3– 1.

Carroll Field

No group was handled in 1906 after a boycott contradicting the viciousness of football; alongside 1943 and 1944 (amid World War II), 1906 is one of three seasons since 1899 that Baylor has not contended in varsity football. Luther Burleson headed the reestablished football group in 1907, and dealt with a 4– 3– 1 record. E.J. Factories drove the group for the 1908 and 1909 seasons; their 3– 5– 0 and 5– 3– 0 records were eminent for the 1908 misfortune to LSU, and for the world's first "Homecoming" at the 1909 Thanksgiving Day amusement, which incorporated a show, march, and campfire. Right up 'til today, Baylor claims the respect of having the biggest homecoming march on the planet.

Baylor has numerous conventions, for example, the Baylor-TCU contention amusement which is a standout amongst the most played in all of school football, the Battle of the Brazos (through 2011 when Texas A&M left the Big 12), enrollment in the notable Southwest Conference, a live bear mascot since 1915 and the Baylor Line.

In 1966, John Hill Westbrook of Elgin, Texas turned into the principal African American to play varsity football in the Southwest Conference when he joined the Baylor group.