There aren't many places where Curly Lambeau played for the Green Bay Packers that are still in use as athletic venues. One such place is City Stadium (City Stadium I) in Green Bay, adjacent to East High School. Lambeau played there from 1925 to 1929. After the Packers moved to City Stadium II, aka new City Stadium, for the 1957 season, the stadium became the home only of Green Bay East athletics.
Another such place is Horlick Field in Racine, Wis., which is where Lambeau and the Packers played one NFL game each year from 1922 to 1924. Their opponent was the Racine Legion, league members for those three seasons and one of two NFL entrants from Racine. (The other, the 1926 Racine Tornadoes, didn't play the Packers home or away.)
1922 Racine Legion team photo. (Image property of Racine Heritage Museum)
In its original incarnation, Horlick Field's seating was laid out for baseball.
Bottom photo source: http://www.projectballpark.org/history/aagpbl/horlick.html
Horlick Field is better known as the home field of the Racine Belles of the All-America Girls Professional Baseball League. The Belles played there from 1943 to 1950.
The Horlick Field property was later divided into side-by-side baseball and football fields. The pre-renovation brick exterior remains. This 2006 photo, taken from the southeast corner of the current football field, looks from the outfield toward home plate of the original layout.
Horlick Field is used today for high school football and baseball, city recreation league softball and the Racine Raiders minor-league football team.
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