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 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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 6	at Alcorn State	Jack Spinks Stadium • Lorman, MS	L 20–44
September 20	at Langston*	Taft Stadium • Oklahoma City, OK	W 20–0
September 27	Hampton*	Independence Stadium • Shreveport, LA	L 7–42
October 4	vs. Prairie View A&M	Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX	W 33–6
October 11	Mississippi Valley State	Eddie Robinson Stadium • Grambling, LA	W 20–13
October 18	Arkansas–Pine Bluff	Independence Stadium • Shreveport, LA	L 16–22
October 25	at Jackson State	Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, MS	L 0–23
November 1	Texas Southern	Eddie Robinson Stadium • Grambling, LA	L 16–21
November 8	at Alabama State	Cramton Bowl • Montgomery, AL[A 1]	L 13–20
November 15	North Carolina A&T	Eddie Robinson Stadium • Grambling, LA	L 35–37
November 29	vs. Southern	Louisiana Superdome • New Orleans, LA (XXIV Bayou Classic)	L 7–30
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. #Rankings from The Sports Network FCS Poll released prior to game.

• Reference:^[1]

Team players in the NFL

• None of the players from the Tigers were drafted in the 1998 NFL Draft.^[4]

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]

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