 They played their home games at Cessna Stadium and were members of the Missouri Valley Conference until the program was discontinued.The team was known as Fairmount from its first season in 1897 to 1925 and Wichita from 1926 through 1963.The first official football game played by Wichita State was in 1897, when they were known as Fairmount, under the coaching of T. H. Morrison.