Wichita State Shockers football | |
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First season | 1897 |
Last season | 1986 |
Stadium | Cessna Stadium (capacity: 31,500) |
Field surface | Grass |
Location | Wichita, Kansas |
Past conferences | Independent (1895–1923, 1927, 1940–1945, 1986) Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (1924–1926) Central Intercollegiate (1928–1939) Missouri Valley (1945–1985) |
All-time record | 375–402–47 (.484) |
Bowl record | 0–3 (.000) |
Conference titles | 14 |
Colors | Black and yellow[1] |
The Wichita State Shockers football team was the college football program of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. The Shockers fielded a team from 1897 to 1986.[2][3] They played their home games at Cessna Stadium and were members of the Missouri Valley Conference until the program was discontinued. The team was known as Fairmount Wheatshockers from its first season in 1897 to 1925, and the Wichita Shockers from 1926 through 1963.