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Municipal Stadium Larry Kelly Field 
BCU Wildcats Football game at Municipal StadiumLocation 3777 LPGA Boulevard
Daytona Beach, Florida 32114Broke ground 1987 Opened September 2, 1988[1] Owner City of Daytona Beach, Florida Operator City of Daytona Beach, Florida Surface Artificial turf Construction cost $6 million[1]
($11.1 million in 2011 dollars[2])Capacity 10,000 Tenants Bethune-Cookman Wildcats (NCAA)
Daytona Beach Racers (SFL)Municipal Stadium, a 10,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Daytona Beach, Florida, is home to the Bethune-Cookman University Wildcat football team. The stadium is also known as Larry Kelly Field,[3] a name honoring former Daytona Beach Mayor Lawrence J. Kelly. This Facility was built in 1988.
Until the end of the 2009 Bike Week season, the stadium hosted the AMA Flat Track motorcycle championships during Daytona Beach Bike Week. When the city took the track down as part of changes to the stadium, those races moved to a new dirt track at Daytona International Speedway.[4]
In 2008 and 2009 the stadium was the location of the Florida Football Alliance annual "Alliance Bowl" season championship game. It was held in Jacksonville for the 2010 season while Municipal Stadium underwent surface replacement. The Alliance Bowl is scheduled to return in 2011.
References
- ^ a b Denise O'Toole (August 29, 1988). "New Municipal Stadium Shines". The News-Journal. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0AwqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SNMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1468,9417437&dq=municipal+stadium+daytona+beach&hl=en.
- ^ Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–2008. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved December 7, 2010.
- ^ Central Florida Sports Venues at OrlandoSports.org
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Football stadiums of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Municipal Stadium (Bethune-Cookman) • Alumni Stadium (Delaware State) • Bragg Memorial Stadium (Florida A&M) • Armstrong Stadium (Hampton) • William H. Greene Stadium (Howard) • Hughes Stadium (Morgan State) • William "Dick" Price Stadium (Norfolk State) • Aggie Stadium (North Carolina A&T) • O'Kelly–Riddick Stadium (North Carolina Central) • Oliver C. Dawson Stadium (South Carolina State) • Ted Wright Stadium (Savannah State)
College football venues in Florida Division I
FBSACC Big East Conference USA SEC Sun Belt Division I
FCSMEAC Municipal Stadium (Bethune–Cookman) • Bragg Memorial Stadium (Florida A&M)
Pioneer NAIA Independent Earl Kitchings Stadium (Edward Waters) • Legion Field (Webber International)
Citrus Bowl • EverBank Field Coordinates: 29°10′23″N 81°7′3″W / 29.17306°N 81.1175°W
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