(Cleburne, Tx) – Cleburne ISD’s Yellow Jacket Stadium has joined the list of Fort Worth area location sites where filming took place for the movie production of “12 Mighty Orphans”, about a football team of orphans from Fort Worth’s Masonic Home.  The movie is based on the Jim Dent book, “Twelve Mighty Orphans,” a true story of the depression-era football players and their coach, Rusty Russell.

The school district says filming sites for the movie included the Brooks Conover Field and the “Rock Room” under the stadium’s home bleachers, which was transformed into the team’s locker room.  The stadium which seats 3,800 was constructed back in 1939 and earned the nickname “The Rock” because it’s partially made from rough-cut limestone out of neighboring Somervell County.

Mighty Orphans location manager said, “There was very little we needed to do to take it back to the 1930s…..The stadium is so correct to the period.”

Thursday’s filming is not the first time the Cleburne stadium has played a starring role in an entertainment production. In the 1990s, commercials for Whataburger and Dr Pepper were shot at the home of Jacket football.

credit:  Lisa Magers/CISD