1997 Grambling State Tigers football team

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1997 Grambling State Tigers football
Conference Southwestern Athletic Conference
Record3–8 (2–5 SWAC)
Head coach
Home stadium Eddie G. Robinson Memorial Stadium
Seasons
←  1996
1998  →
1997 Southwestern Athletic Conference football standings
ConfOverall
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
Rankings from The Sports Network Poll

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]

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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

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 6at Alcorn State
L 20–44 [3]
September 20at Langston *
W 20–020,000 [4]
September 27vs. Hampton *
L 7–4249,156 [5]
October 4vs. Prairie View A&M
W 33–655,119 [6]
October 11 Mississippi Valley State
W 20–13 [7]
October 18vs. Arkansas–Pine Bluff
L 16–2213,004 [8]
October 25at No. 20 Jackson State
L 0–2335,430 [9]
November 1 Texas Southern Dagger-14-plain.png
  • Eddie G. Robinson Memorial Stadium
  • Grambling, LA
L 16–21 [10]
November 9at Alabama State
L 13–20 [12]
November 15 North Carolina A&T *
  • Eddie G. Robinson Memorial Stadium
  • Grambling, LA
L 35–37 [13]
November 29vs. Southern
L 7–30 [14]

[1]

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. [11]

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References

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  4. ↑ "Grambling defense dominates". The Daily Oklahoman. September 21, 1997. Retrieved March 19, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Hampton U. rumbles past Grambling". Daily Press. September 28, 1997. Retrieved March 20, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Grambling finds familiar success against Prairie View". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. October 5, 1997. Retrieved March 19, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
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  8. ↑ "Lions spoil Tigers' night". The Shreveport Times. October 19, 1997. Retrieved March 20, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "JSU gives Robinson early gift, late pain". The Clarion-Ledger. October 26, 1997. Retrieved March 20, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
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  14. ↑ "Bayou good-bye". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 30, 1997. Retrieved March 20, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "1998 NFL Draft". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
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