1997 Grambling State Tigers football team

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]

1997 Grambling State Tigers football
ConferenceSouthwest Athletic Conference
1997 record3–8 (2–5 SWAC)
Head coach
Home stadiumEddie Robinson Stadium
1997 Southwestern Athletic Conference football standings
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

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