War Memorial Stadium was an outdoor stadium in the northeast United States in Buffalo, New York. It hosted minor league baseball and professional football teams, most notably the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League, and later National Football League .The stadium was on a rectangular block near the downtown area and its baseball diamond had an unorthodox southeast alignment . The main entrance was in the left field corner at Jefferson Avenue to the east and Best Street to the south . Its other boundaries were Dodge Street to the north and Masten Park to the west with Masten Avenue farther west. The east-west alignment of the football field was also unorthodox, running along the third base line. The elevation at street level is approximately 650ft above sea level.War Memorial Stadium was built as a WPA project in 1937. It was originally named Roesch Memorial Stadium, though the name was changed to Grover Cleveland Stadium later in 1937 and then to Civic Stadium in 1938. The name was changed to War Memorial Stadium in 1960.
