1975 Lamar Cardinals football team

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1975 Lamar Cardinals football
ConferenceSouthland Conference
1975 record1–10 (0–5 Southland)
Head coach
Home stadiumCardinal Stadium
(Capacity: 17,500)
Seasons
← 1974
1976 →
1975 Southland Conference football standings
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Arkansas State $ 5 – 0 – 0 11 – 0 – 0
Louisiana Tech 4 – 1 – 1 8 – 2 – 0
McNeese State 3 – 2 – 0 7 – 4 – 0
Southwestern Louisiana 2 – 3 – 0 6 – 5 – 0
Texas–Arlington 1 – 4 – 0 4 – 7 – 0
Lamar 0 – 5 – 0 1 – 10 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1975 Lamar Cardinals football team represented Lamar University in the 1975 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Southland Conference. The Cardinals played their home games at Cardinal Stadium now named Provost Umphrey Stadium in Beaumont, Texas. Lamar finished the 1975 season with a 1–10 overall record and a 1–4 conference record. The 1975 season was coach Vernon Glass's final season as the Cardinals' head football coach. Playing the Southern Miss Golden Eagles in the Superdome and the Houston Cougars in the Astrodome, the Cardinals became "...the first collegiate team to play games in two domed stadiums in the same season".[1]

Schedule[]

[2] [3] [4]

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 6at Houston*
L 3–20
September 13West Texas State*
L 6–10
September 20New Mexico State
  • Cardinal Stadium
  • Beaumont, Texas
L 14–17
October 4Louisiana Tech
  • Cardinal Stadium
  • Beaumont, Texas
L 10–24[5]
October 11at Northeast Louisiana*
L 7–34[6]
October 18at Southwestern Louisiana
L 12–21
October 25Arkansas State
  • Cardinal Stadium
  • Beaumont, Texas
L 0–17
November 1vs. Southern Miss*
  • Superdome
  • New Orleans, Louisiana
L 3–43[7]
November 8at Texas–Arlington
L 24–37
November 22Southern Illinois*
  • Cardinal Stadium
  • Beaumont, Texas
W 30–10
November 29at McNeese State
L 10–20
  • *Non-conference game

References[]

  1. ^ David Henry (June 27, 2010). "Coaches have fond memories of Astrodome". Beaumont Enterprise. Hearst Newspapers, LLC II. Retrieved March 26, 2016. The Cardinals have played at the Astrodome three times. In 1975, Lamar played Houston, losing 21-3. The Cardinals played Southern Mississippi in New Orleans at the Super Dome that year, becoming the first collegiate team to play games in two domed stadium in the same season.
  2. ^ "2015 Lamar University Football". Lamar University Athletics. pp. 108–109. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  3. ^ "Archived Team-by-Team Final Statistics". NCAA.org. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  4. ^ David DeLassus. "Lamar Yearly Results (1975-1979)". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  5. ^ "Louisiana Tech, 24–10". Austin American-Statesman. October 5, 1975. Retrieved June 30, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "NLU routs Lamar 34–7". The Daily Advertiser. October 12, 1975. p. 38. Retrieved January 28, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Eagles score easily, crush Lamar 43–3". Hattiesburg American. November 2, 1975. Retrieved March 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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