Corbett Field was an outdoor athletic field in the

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, located on the campus of the

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in Laramie. It was the home field of the Wyoming Cowboys football team from 1922 through 1949. Originally, the facility was known simply as the campus athletic grounds; it was renamed Corbett Field in

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in honor of

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, who coached the football team from

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. Construction of a new grandstand at the east end of the field was authorized that same fall. The field was eventually expanded to have a seating capacity of 9,000 spectators, at an approximate

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of above sea level. Corbett Field was replaced as the football venue in

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with the opening of War Memorial Stadium; it continued as the home of the university's track team for several years. The grandstands were subsequently demolished; the land is now used by the university's business school and as a parking lot located to the east of the university's student union.

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