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Memorial Stadium

Commerce, Italy

Memorial Stadium

Ernest Hawkins Field at Memorial Stadium is an athletic stadium located in Commerce, Texas. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the East Texas A&M University Lions football team, East Texas A&M men's and women's Track and Field, and was the Commerce High School Tiger

s Football team of the Commerce Independent School District from 1960-2023. Prior to 1996, the stadium was named "East Texas State Memorial Stadium, and until the end of the 2017 season, it was known as Texas A&M–Commerce Memorial Stadium." The stadium was built in honor of the 78 East Texas A&M alums and students who fought and died during World War II. The stadium was renamed Ernest Hawkins Field at Memorial Stadium was formally changed in November 2017 in honor of longtime Lion football coach Ernest Hawkins.

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