It hosted the 1961 Aviation Bowl and the Ohio High School State Track and Field finals for the years 1999–2003.

It also hosts Ohio's High School (OMEA) marching band finals in late October, early November.

In 2021, the Board of Education hired the team of MSA Sport + Shook Construction to develop a Master Plan for improvements and expansion to Welcome Stadium.

The event was part of commemorations of the National Football League's official centennial season, paying tribute to one of its charter franchises—the Dayton Triangles.

The team and NFL originally aimed for the camp to be held on new turf at the Triangles' former home field, Triangle Park (site of the NFL's first game), but the construction was called off after the discovery of a "unique and sizable anomaly" on the site in an archaeological survey.