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{{Infobox_Stadium
|  stadium_name      = Drake Field
|  image             = [[Image:Drake Field.jpg|221px|center]]
|  location          = [[Auburn, Alabama]], United States
|  broke_ground      = 1909
|  opened            = October 7, 1911
|  owner             = [[Auburn University|Alabama Polytechnic Institute]]
|  operator          = [[Auburn University|Alabama Polytechnic Institute]]
|  surface           = [[Grass]]
|  tenants           = [[Auburn Tigers|Auburn University Tigers]] ([[Auburn Tigers football|football]]) (1911-1939) <br>
[[Auburn Tigers|Auburn University Tigers]] ([[Auburn Tigers baseball|baseball]]) (1911-1949) <br>
[[Auburn High School Tigers]] (football) (1911-1920, 1935-1939)
|  seating_capacity  = 7,550 (1939)
| coordinates = {{Coord|32|36|07|N|85|29|15|W|format=dms|display=inline,title|type:landmark_region:US-AL}}
}}
'''Drake Field''' was an [[American football]], [[baseball]], and [[track and field|track]] stadium on the campus of [[Auburn University]], in [[Auburn, Alabama]], United States.  From 1911 to 1939, Drake field was the home field of the [[Auburn Tigers|Auburn University Tigers]] [[Auburn Tigers football|football team]].  The stadium was also home to the [[Auburn Tigers baseball|Auburn University Tigers baseball]] team from 1911 through 1949, and the [[Auburn High School Tigers]] football team from 1911 through 1920 and 1935 through 1939.  It had a capacity of 7,550 in 1939.<ref>Fred Turbyville, ''The Blue Book of College Athletics'' (Baltimore, Md.: F. Turbyville, 1939), 39.</ref>

==History==
Drake Field was named for John Hodges Drake III, who served as the college physician from 1873 until 1926 and who donated the land for the field.<ref>"Auburn Men Glory in Athletic Field", ''Montgomery Advertiser'', October 13, 1911; Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, ''Auburn: A Pictorial History of the Loveliest Village''(Auburn: s.n., 1996), 64.</ref> The field was inaugurated on October 7, 1911 with the college football team's 29-0 win over [[Mercer University|Mercer]]. Two months later on the field, [[Auburn High School (Alabama)|Auburn High School]] played the program's first football game, against [[Sidney Lanier High School]], on November 25, 1911.<ref>"Auburn Men Glory in Athletic Field", ''Montgomery Advertiser'', October 13, 1911; AHSFHS.org, "[http://www.ahsfhs.org/Teams2/gamesbyyear.asp?year=1911&Team=Auburn Auburn - 1911]", retrieved August 16, 2008.</ref> 

Auburn High School continued to play football at the stadium until moving to their on-campus stadium [[Ross Field (Athletic)|Ross Field]] in 1921; they returned to Drake Field in 1935 after outgrowing that facility.<ref>''Opelika Daily News'', September 21, 1921''Opelika Daily News'', November 2, 1935.</ref>  Both the high school and the college football teams moved to adjacent Auburn Stadium, today [[Jordan-Hare Stadium]], in 1939.  The college baseball team continued playing at Drake Field until 1949, when they moved to [[Plainsman Park]].  The field remained until the construction of the Haley Center in the late 1960s.  Drake Field today sits on the site of the Auburn University student union.

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 | title = Home of the<br>[[Auburn High School Tigers]]
 | years = 1911–1920<br>1935–1939
 | before = first stadium<br>[[Ross Field (Athletic)|Ross Field]]
 | after = [[Ross Field (Athletic)|Ross Field]]<br>[[Jordan-Hare Stadium|Auburn Stadium]]
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 | title = Home of the<br>[[Auburn Tigers]] (baseball)
 | years = 1911–1949
 | before = Auburn athletic field
 | after = [[Plainsman Park]]
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