Anderson Stadium, Historic stadium in East Austin, United States

Anderson Stadium is a sports venue in East Austin with a grass playing field circled by a running track, all nestled within a natural bowl-shaped landform. This distinctive terrain created natural seating on the sloping sides around the field.

The venue was built in 1953 and served the L.C. Anderson High School, one of few schools for African American students in Austin at the time. When the school closed in 1971 due to federal desegregation orders, the facility's regular use came to an end.

The stadium took its nickname, Yellow Jacket Stadium, from the Anderson High School mascot. Its Friday night games and frequent community events made it a shared public space for East Austin's Black community, and the Anderson football team and marching band both won state championships in the Prairie View Interscholastic League.

The field runs north to south inside an oval rubber track, with metal bleachers on the flanking sides and the slopes of the surrounding bowl used as extra standing room for large crowds. The site sits within the former Anderson High School campus, now Eastside High School, in East Austin. The two-story concrete fieldhouse and the concession and restroom building stand beside the track.

This is the only high school football stadium in Texas that was built specifically for African American students during the segregation era. Its survival to the present day makes it an important witness to this pivotal chapter in the state's history.