[4] During the 1950s and 1960s the facility was gradually improved, with additional bleachers, a press box, a fieldhouse, a ticket booth, and a concession stand all added to the original construction.

[5]: 8–9  Important games drew crowds of more than 8,000,[4] and attendees often included white spectators, such as University of Texas football coach Darrell K Royal.

[5]: 8 In the late 1960s, the federal Department of Health, Education, and Welfare investigated the status of school integration in Texas and found Austin out of compliance, partly because Anderson's student body was still almost exclusively black.

[6] In 1972, the newly established Austin Community College took over Anderson as its first site (later known as the Ridgeview Campus), and ACC paved over the stadium's football field to make a parking lot for commuter students.

[5]: 11  The historic buildings are utilitarian and rectangular in design, built as simple concrete blocks, a reflection of the inferior investment made in a site intended for black students.