Sabine Shoe

The Sabine Shoe is the name of the bronze shoe trophy that was awarded to the winner of the annual football game between the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns (formerly the Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs) and the Lamar Cardinals. The first Sabine Shoe trophy was awarded in 1937 to the winner of the SLI–Lamar football game.[4] The name of the bronze rivalry trophy was derived from the Sabine River that forms part of the Texas–Louisiana border. USL defeated Lamar in the 1978 edition of the rivalry game, but the Ragin' Cajuns were not awarded the trophy as it had vanished.[5] The Sabine Shoe trophy now sits in at trophy case in the Ragin' Cajun Athletic Complex in Lafayette, Louisiana. The two teams have met 34 times on the football field, with the Ragin' Cajuns currently holding a 22–11 edge in the all time series. The game has been infrequently played following the Ragin' Cajuns departure from the Southland Conference in football. Following the 1981 season, the conference was one of several forced to reclassify from NCAA's Division I-A to Division I-AA.[6] The Ragin' Cajuns, a member of Division I-A since 1978, met the NCAA requirements to remain a Division I-A member and chose to continue participation in that sub-division. Later on, both Division I-A and I-AA were changed to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), respectively. Lamar still remains a member of the FCS, the division in which the teams play in a post-season tournament to find a champion while Louisiana plays in the FBS, the division in which teams compete in post-season bowl games.

Sabine Shoe
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
Lamar Cardinals
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First meetingOctober 27, 1923
Southwestern Louisiana 19, Lamar 16
Latest meetingSeptember 1, 2012
Louisiana–Lafayette 40, Lamar 0
Next meeting–
TrophySabine Shoe
Statistics
Meetings total34
All-time seriesLouisiana–Lafayette leads, 22–11[n 1]
Largest victoryLouisiana–Lafayette, 40–0 (2012)
Longest win streak4 games, five times by Louisiana–Lafayette, and once by Lamar
Current win streakLouisiana–Lafayette, 4 (1982–2012)
Lamar
Louisiana
Locations of Lamar and Louisiana

Game results
Louisiana victoriesLamar victoriesVacated wins[n 1]
No.DateLocationWinnerScore
1 October 27, 1923 Beaumont, TX Southwestern Louisiana 19–16
2 November 8, 1924 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 20–8
3 October 10, 1925 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 14–0
4 October 23, 1926 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 19–0
5 November 5, 1932 Beaumont, TX Lamar College 6–0
6 October 6, 1933 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 7–6
7 October 2, 1936 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 13–6
8 September 20, 1952 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 14–13
9 September 19, 1953 Beaumont, TX Southwestern Louisiana 22–13
10 September 18, 1954 Lafayette, LA Lamar Tech26–20
11 September 17, 1955 Beaumont, TX Lamar Tech19–6
12 September 15, 1956 Lafayette, LA Lamar Tech21–14
13 September 28, 1957 Beaumont, TX Lamar Tech36–20
14 October 30, 1965 Beaumont, TX Southwestern Louisiana 20–6
15 October 8, 1966 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 14–6
16 September 23, 1967 Beaumont, TX Lamar Tech 14–13
17 October 26, 1968 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 20–14
18 October 25, 1969 Beaumont, TX Southwestern Louisiana 24–16
No.DateLocationWinnerScore
19 October 24, 1970 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 15–6
20 October 23, 1971 Beaumont, TX Southwestern Louisiana 21–20
21 October 21, 1972 Lafayette, LA Lamar 3–0
22 October 20, 1973 Beaumont, TX Lamar 31–0
23 October 5, 1974 Lafayette, LA Lamar 38–13
24 October 18, 1975 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 21–12
25 October 9, 1976 Beaumont, TX Southwestern Louisiana 34–9
26 September 17, 1977 Beaumont, TX Southwestern Louisiana 10–6
27 September 30, 1978 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 23–16
28 October 20, 1979 Beaumont, TX Lamar 21–17
29 October 25, 1980 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 38–10
30 November 14, 1981 Beaumont, TX Lamar 14–12
31 October 23, 1982 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 24–0
32 October 22, 1983 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 31–6
33 November 11, 1989 Lafayette, LA Southwestern Louisiana 42–33
34 September 1, 2012 Lafayette, LA Louisiana–Lafayette‡40–0
Series: Louisiana leads 22–11

Notes
  1. In 2015, Louisiana–Lafayette vacated four wins from their 2012 football season, including their win over Lamar, due to alleged major NCAA violations.[1] See Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Vacated victories for an explanation of how vacated victories are recorded.[2][3]

References
  1. "Exam fraud, recruit payments among NCAA accusations against UL-Lafayette, ex-assistant coach David Saunders". The Baton Rouge Advocate. October 11, 2015. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
  2. Low, Chris (June 16, 2009). "What does vacating wins really mean?". ESPN.com. ESPN Internet Ventures. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
  3. Taylor, John (July 4, 2009). "Vacated Wins Do Not Equal Forfeits". NBCSports.com. NBC Sports. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
  4. "Tribal lore". The Sporting News. 1997.
  5. "The Week". CNN. October 9, 1978.
  6. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/NCAANewsArchive/1982/19820215.pdf
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