[1] In July 2019, an artificial playing surface was installed replacing the worn out and troublesome Bermuda grass field which was susceptible to fungus growth.

On December 14, 2019, Memorial Stadium will host the CCCAA California Junior College Football Title Game.

Ad hoc football squads were first created in the 1920s resulting in the moniker nickname "Renegades" before official interscholastic collegiate competition was started.

In fact, during the first semester of classes students were served lunches out of the concession stands because the cafeteria was still under construction.

[6] For its first 40 years, Memorial Stadium enjoyed huge success based on its attendance of Bakersfield College football games by the local community.

Attendance was so large that the college's academic extracurricular activities were all funded by football ticket sales until the 1990s.

The Potato Bowl, established in 1948, was a fund raiser for the Shriners Hospital for Burned and Crippled Children in Los Angeles.

The Potato Bowl no longer exists due to fees demanded by the State Junior College Commission on Athletics (COA) to be a part of the reformed state JC playoff system (The COA is now known as the California Community College Athletic Association or CCCAA).

Soccer games are played on a large grass field on the western side of the campus with plans to build a soccer-specific venue in the coming years in what is now the southern parking lot.

On Friday, August 29, 2014, Memorial Stadium hosted two high school games billed as the Kick Off Classic.

A series was created featuring the top three high schools from Bakersfield and the Fresno area.

The Bakersfield Condors hosted the Ontario Reign (American Hockey League affiliate of the Los Angeles Kings) in a game played in a pouring rain storm.

[citation needed] The upper decks are built of steel-reinforced concrete and sit opposite each other overlooking their respective sidelines.

The visiting-side (eastern) upper deck features an enclosed, partitioned press box with rooms for each team's coaching staff, radio broadcasts, and media.

Due to being built into a pre-existing ravine the axis of the field runs at an approximate northeast-southwest angle.

If the finish line was on the western side then it would be out of view of most of the spectators and the press box would have an indirect angle of observation.

Because of this emphasis on track and field the scoreboard operator was positioned at the finish line on the field near the northern 30-yard line until 2020 when the scoreboard operation system was finally moved into the press box in 2020, the last remaining junior college site in California to do so.

His spotters, Chuck Cunningham and Norman Ranallo, have worked with Carl for 33 and 32 years, respectively.

The roof of the press box is used to film games from, has been used to broadcast live local television coverage of B.C.

A campus renovation is in progress as of 2019 that will see a gymnasium built adjacent to the campus-side seating of Memorial Stadium.

This will allow teams to dress at field level without having to walk up-and-down a steep concrete ramp in their plastic cleats resulting in many players over the years slipping and falling.