1997 Grambling State Tigers football team

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1997 Grambling State Tigers football
ConferenceSouthwest Athletic Conference
1997 record3–8 (2–5 SWAC)
Head coach
Home stadiumEddie Robinson Stadium
Seasons
← 1996
1998 →
1997 Southwestern Athletic Conference football standings
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
No. 12 Southern $   8 – 0     11 – 1  
No. 14 Jackson State ^   7 – 1     9 – 3  
Arkansas–Pine Bluff   6 – 2     8 – 3  
Texas Southern   4 – 4     5 – 6  
Alcorn State   4 – 4     4 – 7  
Mississippi Valley State   3 – 5     4 – 6  
Alabama State   2 – 6     3 – 8  
Grambling State   2 – 6     3 – 8  
Prairie View A&M   0 – 8     0 – 9  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant

The 1997 Grambling State Tigers football team represented Grambling State University as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1997 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Tigers were led by head coach Eddie Robinson in his 55th year and finished the season with a record of three wins and eight losses (3–8, 2–5 SWAC). The Tigers offense scored 187 points while the defense allowed 258 points.[1]

This was Eddie Robinson's final season as head coach.[2] Robinson spent fifty-six years as the head coach at historically black Grambling State University in Grambling in Lincoln Parish in northern Louisiana, from 1941 through 1997.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 6at Alcorn State
L 20–44
September 20at Langston*
W 20–0
September 27Hampton*
L 7–42
October 4vs. Prairie View A&M
W 33–6
October 11Mississippi Valley State
W 20–13
October 18Arkansas–Pine Bluff
  • Independence Stadium
  • Shreveport, LA
L 16–22
October 25at Jackson State
L 0–23
November 1Texas Southern
  • Eddie Robinson Stadium
  • Grambling, LA
L 16–21
November 8at Alabama State
L 13–20
November 15North Carolina A&T
  • Eddie Robinson Stadium
  • Grambling, LA
L 35–37
November 29vs. Southern
L 7–30
  • *Non-conference game

Team players in the NFL[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ This game was originally scheduled to be played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, but moved to Montgomery due to low ticket sales and a lack of up-front money from the promoters.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b DeLassus, David. "Grambling State Yearly Results: 1995–1999". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Ex-Grambling coach Robinson dead at 88". ESPN.com. Associated Press. April 4, 2007. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  3. ^ "Grambling–Alabama State is moved from Rose Bowl". Los Angeles Times. LATimes.com. Associated Press. September 18, 1997. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  4. ^ "1998 NFL Draft". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
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