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2012: Leadership gift
Baylor announced the McLane family’s leadership gift in March 2012.
Checked 2026-10-23 · Sources: Baylor History — official source
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2014: New home
McLane Stadium opened for Baylor’s 2014 season.
Checked 2026-10-23 · Sources: Baylor History — official source
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2014: Conference title
Baylor closed its debut season with another Big 12 title.
Checked 2026-10-23 · Sources: Baylor History — official source
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2024: Display upgrades
Original stadium video displays were upgraded before the 2024 season.
Checked 2026-10-23 · Sources: Baylor History — official source
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2024: North display
An auxiliary video board was added at the north end.
Checked 2026-10-23 · Sources: Baylor History — official source
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2024: Hospitality addition
Brazos Suites added hospitality space beneath the south video board.
Checked 2026-10-23 · Sources: Baylor History — official source
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Broadcast modernization
New production control rooms centralized Baylor Athletics broadcasts.
Checked 2026-10-23 · Sources: Baylor History — official source
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Baylor’s 1974 championship turnaround
Baylor won the Southwest Conference in 1974 after going winless in league play the previous season. The championship run included a 34–24 victory over Texas on November 9 after a 24–7 halftime deficit. The Bears secured the outright title and a Cotton Bowl berth by beating Rice. Baylor’s 2024 retrospective places that season at the center of the program’s revival.
Checked 2026-10-31 · Sources: WAS IT A MIRACLE? - Baylor
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Grant Teaff’s Baylor era
Grant Teaff coached Baylor from 1972 through 1992. His 21 seasons produced 128 wins, two Southwest Conference championships and eight bowl appearances. Baylor’s institutional account of his career also records earlier head-coaching work at McMurry and Angelo State. These are historical milestones rather than a current coaching listing.
Checked 2026-10-31 · Sources: Grant Teaff Set for Nov. 5 NFF On-Campus Salute - Baylor
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Robert Griffin III and Baylor’s first Heisman
On December 10, 2011, Robert Griffin III became Baylor’s first Heisman Trophy winner. The quarterback finished ahead of Stanford’s Andrew Luck in the voting. Baylor’s contemporary announcement also records Griffin as the school’s first Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award recipient.
Checked 2026-10-31 · Sources: Griffin III Wins Baylor's First Heisman Trophy - Baylor
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Baylor’s 2019 athletics identity
Baylor unveiled its unified athletics identity in April 2019 following a collaborative design process with Nike. The interlocking BU remained the primary mark, while the project brought greater consistency to uniforms and green-and-gold colors across sports. The revised lettermark incorporated details intended to suggest a bear claw.
Checked 2026-10-31 · Sources: CREATING THE NEW BRAND WAS LABOR OF LOVE - Baylor
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Baylor’s founding at Independence
The Republic of Texas chartered Baylor on February 1, 1845, following a Baptist university proposal advanced by William Milton Tryon and Judge R.E.B. Baylor. James Huckins helped raise funds. Independence became the first home. Baylor’s own history also acknowledges that its principal founders enslaved people and that enslaved labor contributed directly and indirectly to the institution’s early development.
Checked 2026-10-31 · Sources: Baylor History | About Baylor | Baylor University — text extract
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The move to Waco in 1886
In 1886, Baylor and Waco University consolidated to form Baylor University at Waco. This move followed the university’s earlier decades in Independence and established Waco as the continuing home of the institution.
Checked 2026-10-31 · Sources: Baylor History | About Baylor | Baylor University — text extract
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Baylor’s early graduates
Baylor’s commencement history identifies Stephen Decatur Rowe as the recipient of an A.B. degree at its first official commencement in Independence in 1854. Mary Kavanaugh Gentry became its first woman graduate the following year. The account records six men and two women graduating in 1856.
Checked 2026-10-31 · Sources: Baylor History | Commencement | Baylor University — text extract
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Waco Hall and the city’s campus connection
Baylor moved commencement ceremonies to Waco Hall in 1930. The university’s commencement history describes the new facility as funded by the City of Waco. Earlier ceremonies had used Carroll Library’s chapel; after the 1922 library fire, a chapel-gymnasium served as the venue.
Checked 2026-10-31 · Sources: Baylor History | Commencement | Baylor University — text extract
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Baylor’s Homecoming beginnings
Baylor held its first Homecoming on November 24–25, 1909, bringing alumni back for music, reunions, a parade and football at Carroll Field. A second celebration followed in 1915. The university’s history says the event became annual in 1934 after earlier intermittent gatherings. This describes Baylor’s own chronology without claiming a national first.
Checked 2026-10-31 · Sources: History of Homecoming | Homecoming | Baylor University — text extract
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