Red River State Fair Classic

The Red River State Fair Classic (formerly the State Fair Classic and, more recently, the Shreveport Classic) is an American college football game played annually in Shreveport, Louisiana, at Independence Stadium (formerly State Fair Stadium) during the State Fair of Louisiana.[14][15] It traces its historical lineage from a series of 160 games played over the 106 football seasons between 1911 and 2016. By having first paired historically black colleges and universities in 1922,[16] the contest holds the distinction of being the oldest annual black college football classic, edging out the Turkey Day Classic by two years and the similar Texas State Fair Classic by three years. Also, so far, the earliest documented use of the term "classic" as part of an annual black college football game's formal name has been dated to the 1927 Louisiana State Fair Classic.[5]

Red River State Fair Classic[1]
StadiumIndependence Stadium (1924–1989,[2] 1999, 2001–2003, 2010–2013, 2015–2016)
LocationShreveport, Louisiana
Previous stadiumsState Fairgrounds field (1911[3]–1917, 1919–1923)
Centenary Field (1927)[4]
Operated1911–1917, 1919–1989, 1999, 2001–2003, 2010–2013, 2015–2016
Former names
State Fair Game (1911–1917, 1919–1926)
State Fair Classic (1927[5]–1989,[6] 2002[6]–2003)[7][8]
Red River Classic (1999,[9] 2002)[10]
Port City Classic–State Fair Game (2001)[11]
Shreveport Classic (2010[12]–2013)[13]
2016 matchup
Grambling State Tigers vs. Alabama State Hornets (21–0)

State Fair Classic history

The fair began in 1906,[17] and attempts were made immediately to schedule a football game as a draw, specifically a game between Louisiana State University and the Shreveport Athletic Club.[18] Although plans for that game fell through, the fair did begin hosting college football games regularly starting in 1911. Nearby schools Louisiana Tech and Northwestern State played in that first game. The annual Arkansas–LSU game was made its main draw two years later,[4] much like the Red River Showdown game had begun headlining the State Fair of Texas in Dallas in 1912. The 1924 game featured a silver football trophy as part of the dedication ceremonies for the new host field, State Fair Stadium.[2] After LSU won for the seventh straight time in 1936, that series was discontinued, and Louisiana Tech and NSU returned to playing in the featured game. When Louisiana Tech began efforts in the late 1980s to move into the NCAA's Division I-A, NSU began playing Louisiana–Monroe in the game.

In the past sometimes as many as four college games were played over the course of a single fair,[19] although the "Louisiana State Fair Classic" moniker was used interchangeably to describe any of the games, not just the featured game.[20][21][22] These games tended to include schools from the Ark-La-Tex area. The hometown school, Centenary College, hosted numerous games over the years. Southwestern Athletic Conference schools (usually Southern or Grambling and Bishop or Wiley colleges) were known to play on Monday, in conjunction with the fair's "Negro Day"[23]—although the 1961 Grambling–Prairie View A&M game was overshadowed by a boycott by the Congress of Racial Equality in an effort to encourage improved integration at the fair[24] (despite a modern source that lists the 1962 game as also having been played in Shreveport,[25] the October 21, 1962 issue of the Shreveport Times confirms that the game was indeed moved back to an on-campus venue, this time in Prairie View, Texas). Through the years there was considerable cross-over between SWAC teams that played in Louisiana's State Fair Classic and Texas' own State Fair Classic, and the Grambling–Prairie View series itself is now held at the Texas fair. College freshman and high school teams were also known to compete at the fair in its earlier years,[26][19][27] including some pre-Louisiana High School Athletic Association era state championship games.[28][29] In 1934 and 1945 military teams were extended invitations to play; during World War II many colleges—including each of the classic's regular hosts, Centenary, Louisiana Tech, NSU, and Southern—had to discontinue football, while the service teams that appeared in their place helped fill in the gaps on active college teams' schedules and were even included in the Associated Press' college football rankings and bowl games as well.

With the NSU–ULM series returning to on-campus stadiums in 1990, the fair was left without regular tenants and, at times, had to reinvent itself. The Red River Classic—which had long served as an annual, early-season SWAC game for Grambling at Independence Stadium[30]—was moved, in conjunction with the fair, for the 1999 campaign. In 2001 a contest billed as the "Port City Classic–State Fair Game" was hosted by Southern during the fair,[11] but in 2002 the Port City Classic was spun-off separately from the fair and became an early September game instead;[31] the Red River Classic returned to the fair in its place. Louisiana College's newly-revived football program also saw a return to the fair that season, as well as in 2003. Prairie View and Grambling, in addition to competing annually at the Texas state fair, have hosted the most recent Louisiana fair games too. Prairie View hosted a series of four annual games dubbed the "Shreveport Classic" starting in 2010,[32][12] and Grambling began hosting the newly-named "Red River State Fair Classic" during the 2015 season. The City of Shreveport's government actively worked to revive the classic in 2010[32] and, through 2016, remained a sponsor[33] despite the fact that the classic's new name dropped its reference to the city and added back its reference to the state fair (as well as to the old Red River Classic).

After initially designating its October 28 contest against Texas Southern as its Red River State Fair Classic game when it released its official 2017 schedule,[34] Grambling instead later announced that it would be moved to Grambling to serve as a homecoming game, allowing GSU to play a fourth home game in Eddie Robinson Stadium, which had just undergone a multi-million dollar renovation.[35]

Notable games

A number of games stand out in the series. The 1915 Arkansas–LSU game saw the largest college football crowd (20,000) in the history of the southwestern U.S. at the time.[36] No college games were played at the fair in 1918; World War I would not come to an end until a week after the fair's final scheduled day.[37] In 1922, the fair broke the color barrier and began hosting African American teams.[16] With the 1924 Arkansas–LSU game being played for a silver football trophy (as part of the dedication ceremonies for the new stadium),[2] the series became the first future Southeastern Conference rivalry to feature a trophy. The 1927 Centenary game was moved to Centenary Field to preserve the soggy playing surface for the featured Arkansas–LSU game.[4] In 1936, LSU chose to install Mike I as its first live bengal tiger mascot at the venue, instead of in Baton Rouge.[38] The 1945 series of games was historic in that it featured a rare look at multiple service teams of the era,[39] shortly before they were phased out with the end of World War II. A book by Mark and Jacqueline Scott called Beat TECH! Inside the Louisiana State Fair Football Classics, 1940–42 also covers several prominent Louisiana Tech–NSU games before World War II interrupted the series. In 1968 Bulldog quarterback Terry Bradshaw threw an 82-yard pass to Ken Liberto with 18 seconds remaining to pull out a 42–39 victory over the Demons[40] in what "is generally considered the pinnacle of the State Fair Classic."[41]

Although the annual classic has long provided exhibitions of college football for one the largest markets without any home college team, its local cultural significance may have been eclipsed by the Independence Bowl, judging from the bowl's higher attendance figures. Regardless, in the fifty games between 1959 and 2016, the classic drew 873,609 fans total, for an average of 17,472 per game; this average includes the aforementioned second game of the 1961 fair (which was played under a fan boycott) and the second game of 1975 (which drew only 382 people[42] as the result of massive rainfall[43]). The largest documented crowd occurred at the 1980 game (36,000).[44]

Game results
DateWinning teamLosing teamAttendance
November 4, 1911 Louisiana Tech39 Northwestern State0 [3]
November 2, 1912 Henderson State14 Louisiana Tech0 [45]
November 8, 1913 Louisiana Tech53 Louisiana College0 [46]
November 8, 1913 LSU12 Arkansas7 [46]
November 7, 1914 Louisiana Tech14 Centenary0 [28]
November 7, 1914 Arkansas20 LSU12 14,000[28]
November 6, 1915 Louisiana Tech20 Northwestern State7 [29]
November 6, 1915 LSU13 Arkansas7 20,000[36]
(Then-largest football crowd in the Southwest)
November 4, 1916 Louisiana Tech24 Northwestern State0 [47]
November 4, 1916 LSU17 Arkansas7 5,000[48]
November 3, 1917 Northwestern State7 Louisiana Tech0 [47]
November 3, 1917 Arkansas14 LSU0
1918 (No intercollegiate games
played due to World War I)		 [37]
October 25, 1919 LSU20 Arkansas0
November 1, 1919 Hendrix6 Centenary0 [49]
November 6, 1920 LSU3 Arkansas0
October 29, 1921 Northwestern State7 Centenary0 [50]
November 5, 1921 LSU10 Arkansas7
October 21, 1922 Tennessee Medical14 Centenary0 10,000[51]
October 23, 1922 Bishop19 Southern0 [16][52]
October 25, 1922 Centenary20 Northwestern State0 [16][53]
October 28, 1922 Arkansas40 LSU6
October 20, 1923 Centenary46 Northwestern State0 [54]
October 27, 1923 Arkansas26 LSU13 13,000[55]
November 1, 1924 Arkansas10 LSU7 8,000[56][2]
(Stadium dedication trophy game)
November 3, 1924 Wiley6 Southern0 [57]
November 8, 1924 Centenary7 Central Oklahoma6 [58]
October 31, 1925 Arkansas12 LSU0 8,000[59]
November 2, 1925 Wiley6 Southern0 [60][26]
November 7, 1925 Centenary17 Central Oklahoma7 [61]
October 30, 1926 Centenary14 Central Oklahoma10 [19]
November 1, 1926 Wiley32 Southern6 [19][62]
November 6, 1926 Stephen F. Austin28 Northwestern State0 [19]
November 6, 1926 LSU14 Arkansas0
October 28, 1927 Centenary20 Birmingham–Southern7 [4]
(Game moved to Centenary Field due to field conditions)
October 29, 1927 Arkansas28 LSU0 15,000[63]
October 31, 1927 Bishop34 Southern0 [64]
November 5, 1927 Northwestern State26 Stephen F. Austin0 [4]
October 27, 1928 Union (TN)26 Louisiana Tech0 [65]
November 2, 1928 Northwestern State26 Stephen F. Austin0 [66]
November 3, 1928 Arkansas7 LSU0 12,000[67]
November 2, 1929 Arkansas32 LSU0 8,000[68]
November 4, 1929 Southern45 Arkansas Baptist7 [69]
November 9, 1929 Centenary0 Henderson State0
October 25, 1930 Centenary7 Baylor2
October 27, 1930 Wiley6 Southern6 [70][71]
November 1, 1930 LSU27 Arkansas12 7,000[72]
October 24, 1931 LSU13 Arkansas6 10,000[73]
October 26, 1931 Southern14 Wiley7 [74]
October 31, 1931 Texas A&M7 Centenary0
October 22, 1932 LSU14 Arkansas0 12,000[75]
October 29, 1932 Centenary7 Texas A&M0
October 21, 1933 LSU20 Arkansas0 10,000[76]
October 23, 1933 Southern6 Bishop0 [77]
October 28, 1933 Centenary0 TCU0 [78]
October 20, 1934 LSU16 Arkansas0 12,000[79]
October 26, 1934 Texas Military26 Barksdale Field6 [80]
October 27, 1934 Centenary13 TCU0
October 19, 1935 LSU13 Arkansas7 10,000[81]
October 21, 1935 Bishop40 Southern0 [82]
October 26, 1935 TCU27 Centenary7
October 24, 1936 LSU19 Arkansas7 15,000[38]
October 31, 1936 Ole Miss24 Centenary7
October 23, 1937 Louisiana Tech14 Northwestern State0
October 30, 1937 Centenary0 Mississippi State0 10,000[83]
November 1, 1937 Wiley7 Southern0 5,000[84]
October 22, 1938 Northwestern State7 Louisiana Tech6
October 29, 1938 Centenary7 Loyola Marymount6 [85]
October 31, 1938 Wiley14 Southern12 [85]
October 21, 1939 Northwestern State26 Louisiana Tech0
October 28, 1939 TCU21 Centenary0 [86]
October 30, 1939 Wiley12 Southern9 3,000[86][87]
October 19, 1940 Northwestern State13 Louisiana Tech0 7,500[88]
October 26, 1940 Southwestern Louisiana6 Louisiana College0 7,500[88]
October 28, 1940 Southern19 Wiley0 3,500[89][90]
October 18, 1941 Louisiana Tech10 Northwestern State0 8,000[91]
October 25, 1941 Washington (MO)13 Centenary7 [92]
October 27, 1941 Wiley6 Southern22 [92][93][94]
(forfeited by Southern)
October 24, 1942 Northwestern State10 Louisiana Tech6
November 1, 1943 Wiley71 Xavier (LA)0 [20]
October 30, 1944 Wiley56 Xavier (LA)0 [95]
October 20, 1945 Selman Army Airfield13 Barksdale Field0 4,500[96][97]
October 27, 1945 Barksdale Field46 Camp Swift0 [98][99]
October 29, 1945 Wiley26 Randolph Field0 [23][99][39]
(Randolph Field sent their "Black Ramblers" team)
October 26, 1946 Louisiana Tech14 Northwestern State7
October 28, 1946 Tuskegee21 Wiley6 15,000[100]
October 18, 1947 Chattanooga20 Centenary0 [101]
October 25, 1947 Louisiana Tech24 Northwestern State0 10,000[102]
October 27, 1947 Grambling State20 Bishop6 8,000[103]
October 23, 1948 Louisiana Tech10 Northwestern State7 12,000[104]
November 1, 1948 Arkansas–Pine Bluff21 Bishop6 [105]
October 22, 1949 Louisiana Tech28 Northwestern State21
October 31, 1949 Grambling State55 Tuskegee0 [106]
October 21, 1950 Louisiana Tech15 Northwestern State7
October 23, 1950 Grambling State14 Wiley14 [107]
October 20, 1951 Louisiana Tech21 Northwestern State6
October 22, 1951 Grambling State19 Wiley13 9,000[108]
October 18, 1952 Louisiana Tech22 Northwestern State0
October 20, 1952 Grambling State18 Wiley14 [107]
October 24, 1953 Northwestern State15 Louisiana Tech7
October 26, 1953 Grambling State26 Wiley0 [109]
October 23, 1954 Louisiana Tech13 Northwestern State6
October 25, 1954 Grambling State35 Wiley12 [107]
October 22, 1955 Louisiana Tech21 Northwestern State20
October 24, 1955 Grambling State20 Wiley0 [110]
October 20, 1956 Louisiana Tech0 Northwestern State0 11,000[111]
October 22, 1956 Grambling State34 Morris Brown12 5,000[112][113]
October 19, 1957 Louisiana Tech20 Northwestern State13 19,500[114]
October 21, 1957 Wiley40 Grambling State12 [115]
October 18, 1958 Northwestern State18 Louisiana Tech14 22,000[116]
October 20, 1958 Grambling State19 Wiley15 [117]
October 24, 1959 Louisiana Tech27 Northwestern State14 23,500[116]
October 26, 1959 Prairie View A&M35 Grambling State6 9,500[118][119]
October 22, 1960 Louisiana Tech13 Northwestern State7 18,000[116]
October 24, 1960 Grambling State26 Prairie View A&M0 10,000[120]
October 21, 1961 Northwestern State19 Louisiana Tech7 24,000[116]
October 23, 1961 Grambling State34 Prairie View A&M14 5,000[24]
(Game played under fan boycott)
October 28, 1961 Northeast Louisiana27 Southwestern Louisiana20 3,700[121]
October 20, 1962 Northwestern State19 Louisiana Tech2 22,000[116]
October 27, 1962 Southwestern Louisiana18 Northeast Louisiana10 3,000[122]
October 19, 1963 Louisiana Tech27 Northwestern State13 18,500[116]
October 24, 1964 Louisiana Tech16 Northwestern State7 30,000[116]
October 23, 1965 Louisiana Tech42 Northwestern State14 27,000[116]
October 22, 1966 Northwestern State28 Louisiana Tech7 25,000[123]
October 21, 1967 Northwestern State7 Louisiana Tech0 28,000[123]
October 19, 1968 Louisiana Tech42 Northwestern State39 28,000[123]
October 18, 1969 Louisiana Tech42 Northwestern State21 31,000[123]
October 24, 1970 Northwestern State20 Louisiana Tech17 25,006[123]
October 23, 1971 Louisiana Tech33 Northwestern State21 29,000[123]
October 21, 1972 Louisiana Tech20 Northwestern State16 27,000[123]
October 20, 1973 Louisiana Tech26 Northwestern State7 33,000[123]
October 19, 1974 Louisiana Tech34 Northwestern State0 26,000[124]
October 18, 1975 Louisiana Tech41 Northwestern State14 26,496[124]
October 25, 1975 Jacksonville State21 Northwestern State0 382[42][43]
(Smallest documented crowd due to weather)
October 23, 1976 Louisiana Tech35 Northwestern State6 24,200[124]
October 30, 1976 North Texas14 Louisiana Tech8 6,532[124]
October 22, 1977 Louisiana Tech30 Northwestern State8 24,086[124]
October 21, 1978 Louisiana Tech45 Northwestern State20 21,000[124]
October 28, 1978 North Texas16 Louisiana Tech14 6,510[124]
October 20, 1979 Northwestern State25 Louisiana Tech21 19,212[44]
October 18, 1980 Louisiana Tech27 Northwestern State23 36,000[44]
(Largest documented crowd)
October 24, 1981 Louisiana Tech37 Northwestern State33 22,300[44]
October 23, 1982 Louisiana Tech33 Northwestern State0 17,626[44]
October 22, 1983 Louisiana Tech21 Northwestern State10 13,996[44]
October 20, 1984 Louisiana Tech5 Northwestern State0 9,424[125]
October 26, 1985 Louisiana Tech33 Northwestern State17 14,783[125]
October 25, 1986 Louisiana Tech13 Northwestern State13 12,301[125]
October 24, 1987 Louisiana Tech23 Northwestern State0 15,232[125]
October 22, 1988 Northwestern State27 Northeast Louisiana15 11,568[126]
October 21, 1989 Northeast Louisiana14 Northwestern State14 14,225[127]
October 23, 1999 Grambling State24 Arkansas–Pine Bluff19 20,100[128]
October 27, 2001 Southern49 Mississippi Valley State0 10,514[129]
October 19, 2002 Grambling State54 Arkansas–Pine Bluff15 11,017[130]
November 2, 2002 East Texas Baptist28 Louisiana College13 5,000[7]
November 1, 2003 East Texas Baptist30 Louisiana College3 4,927[8]
October 23, 2010 Prairie View A&M30 Southern16 19,979[131]
October 29, 2011 Jackson State44 Prairie View A&M14 17,743[132]
October 27, 2012 Prairie View A&M49 Southern29 12,223[133]
October 26, 2013 Jackson State51 Prairie View A&M38 5,116[134]
November 7, 2015 Grambling State41 Texas Southern15 9,868[135]
November 12, 2016 Grambling State21 Alabama State0 15,043[136]

Appearances by team
TeamAppearancesRecord *
Alabama State10–1 (.000)
Arkansas239–14–0 (.391)
Arkansas–Pine Bluff31–2–0 (.333)
Arkansas Baptist10–1–0 (.000)
Barksdale Field31–2–0 (.333)
Baylor10–1–0 (.000)
Birmingham–Southern10–1–0 (.000)
Bishop63–3–0 (.500)
Camp Swift10–1–0 (.000)
Centenary2310–10–3 (.500)
Central Oklahoma30–3–0 (.000)
Chattanooga11–0–0 (1.000)
East Texas Baptist22–0 (1.000)
Grambling State1815–2–1 (.861)
Henderson State21–0–1 (.750)
Hendrix11–0–0 (1.000)
Jackson State22–0 (1.000)
Jacksonville State11–0–0 (1.000)
LSU2314–9–0 (.609)
Louisiana College40–4–0 (.000)
Louisiana Tech5839–17–2 (.690)
Loyola Marymount10–1–0 (.000)
Mississippi State10–0–1 (.500)
Mississippi Valley State10–1 (.000)
Morris Brown10–1–0 (.000)
North Texas22–0–0 (1.000)
Northeast Louisiana41–2–1 (.375)
Northwestern State6117–41–3 (.303)
Ole Miss11–0–0 (1.000)
Prairie View A&M73–4–0 (.429)
Randolph Field **10–1–0 (.000)
Selman Army Airfield11–0–0 (1.000)
Southern185–12–1 (.306)
Southwestern Louisiana32–1–0 (.667)
Stephen F. Austin31–2–0 (.333)
TCU42–1–1 (.625)
Tennessee Medical11–0–0 (1.000)
Texas A&M21–1–0 (.500)
Texas Military11–0–0 (1.000)
Texas Southern10–1 (.000)
Tuskegee21–1–0 (.500)
Union (TN)11–0–0 (1.000)
Washington (MO)11–0–0 (1.000)
Wiley2211–9–2 (.545)
Xavier (LA)20–2–0 (.000)

Note: *—tie games were eliminated as a possibility with the introduction of overtime in 1996; **—Randolph Field, as a segregated facility, fielded two football teams: the Caucasian "Ramblers" and the African American "Black Ramblers"—the Black Ramblers were the team that competed at the 1945 fair

See also

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