Texas Southern Tigers football

Texas Southern Tigers football
2024 Texas Southern Tigers football team
First season1947; 77 years ago
Head coachCris Dishman
1st season, 5–6 (.455)
StadiumShell Energy Stadium
(capacity: 22,000)
Year built2012
Field surfaceNatural grass
LocationHouston, Texas
ConferenceSWAC
DivisionWest
All-time record330–439–27 (.432)
Unclaimed national titles2 (Black College): 1952, 2010
Conference titles4 (1 MWAA, 3 SWAC)
ColorsMaroon and gray[1]
   
Websitetsusports.com

The Texas Southern Tigers is the college football team representing Texas Southern University, a historically black university (HBCU) in Houston. The Tigers play in the NCAA's Division I FCS as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), a conference whose members are all HBCUs. In 2012, the Tigers moved into the new Shell Energy Stadium in East Downtown, built for the city's Major League Soccer team, the Houston Dynamo. It replaced Delmar Stadium as the primary home of Tiger football.

History

Shell Energy Stadium

Classifications

Conference memberships

Football classics

Labor Day Classic

The Tigers compete against the Panthers of Prairie View A&M in the Labor Day Classic for the Durley-Nicks Trophy. The popular football rivalry began in 1946 but the classic was created in 1985.

TV broadcasting

In July 2017, Texas Southern renewed their deal with AT&T SportsNet (formerly ROOT Sports Southwest) to televise all home football games. The cable channel reaches over 13 million households.[2]

Championships

A Tigers football game in 2019
Texas Southern football players in 2019

National

Year Championship Coach Overall record Conference
1952 Black College National co-champions Alexander Durley 10–0–1 MWAA
2010 Black College National co-champions Johnnie Cole 9–3 SWAC

Conference championships

Year Conference Coach Overall Record Conference Record
1952† Midwest Athletic Association Alexander Durley 10–0–1
1956 Southwestern Athletic Conference Alexander Durley 9–2 5–1
1964† Southwestern Athletic Conference Clifford Paul 5–4–1 4–2–1
1968† Southwestern Athletic Conference Clifford Paul 6–4 6–1
2010* Southwestern Athletic Conference Johnnie Cole 9–3 8–1
Total Conference Championships: 4 (1 vacated)
† Denotes co-champions * Denotes vacated title

Alumni in the NFL

Over 60 Texas Southern alumni have played in the NFL or AFL,[3] including:

°° Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee

2012 NCAA sanctions

In October 2012, the NCAA found Texas Southern University guilty of repeated rules violations in 13 sports over a seven-year period from 2005 to 2012. The most serious violations occurred within the football and men's basketball programs, involving academic fraud, illicit benefits given to student athletes, lying on the part of coaches, and lying to the NCAA about previously self-imposed sanctions.[4]

Prior to the NCAA's verdict, the school had taken numerous corrective measures—including the April 2011 firing of football coach Johnnie Cole (2010 SWAC Football Coach of the Year) and vacating every game that the Tiger football team had won from 2006 to 2010 - including the 2010 SWAC Championship, their first championship in 42 years.[5]

The NCAA banned TSU's football team from the 2013 and 2014 postseason.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ TSU Graphic Standards (PDF). September 1, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  2. ^ "AT&T SportsNet set to broadcast TSU home football games". Texas Southern University.
  3. ^ "Texas Southern Players/Alumni - Pro-Football-Reference.com". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
  4. ^ "NCAA". October 26, 2012. Archived from the original on October 26, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ "NCAA imposes postseason bans for Texas Southern". CBSSports.com. Archived from the original on May 20, 2013. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
  6. ^ [1] The New York Times, 2012-10-09.