1997 Grambling State Tigers football team
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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 56th 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
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
- Reference:[1]
Team players in the NFL
- None of the players from the Tigers were drafted in the 1998 NFL Draft.[4]
Notes
- ^ 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
- ^ a b DeLassus, David. "Grambling State Yearly Results: 1995–1999". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- ^ a b "Ex-Grambling coach Robinson dead at 88". ESPN.com. Associated Press. April 4, 2007. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- ^ "Grambling–Alabama State is moved from Rose Bowl". Los Angeles Times. LATimes.com. Associated Press. September 18, 1997. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- ^ "1998 NFL Draft". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved October 25, 2013.