Texas Southern Tigers Football
The Texas Southern Tigers is the college football team representing Texas Southern University, a Historically black colleges and universities, historically black university (HBCU) in Houston. The Tigers play in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA's Division I (NCAA)#Football Championship Subdivision, 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 Houston, 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 Classifications * 1952–1972: NCAA College Division * 1952–1969: National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, NAIA * 1970–1984: NAIA Division I * 1973–1976: NCAA Division II * 1977: NCAA Division I * 1978–present: NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision, NCAA Division I-AA/FCS Conference m ...
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Cris Dishman
Cris Edward Dishman (born August 13, 1965) is an American American football, football coach and former player who is the 18th head football coach for Texas Southern Tigers football, Texas Southern University, a position he has held since 2024. He played professionally as a cornerback for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Dishman played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers football, Purdue Boilermakers and was selected in the fifth round of the 1988 NFL draft. He played in the NFL for the Houston Oilers, Kansas City Chiefs, Minnesota Vikings, and Washington Redskins from 1988 to 2000. Early career Dishman attended DeSales High School (Louisville, Kentucky), St. Francis DeSales High School where he was two time Kentucky All-State in 1981 and 1982. Dishman played college football at Purdue Boilermakers football, Purdue University, where he was named to the List of All-Big Ten Conference football teams, All-Big Ten team in 1987. He also ran Track and field ...
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National Association Of Intercollegiate Athletics
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) established in 1940, is a college athletics association for higher education, colleges and universities in North America. Most colleges and universities in the NAIA offer athletic scholarships to their student athletes. Around $1.3 billion in athletic scholarship financial aid is awarded to student athletes annually. For the 2024–25 season, it had List of NAIA institutions, 237 member institutions, of which two are in British Columbia, one in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the rest in the conterminous United States, continental United States, with over 83,000 student-athletes participating. The NAIA, whose headquarters is in Kansas City, Missouri, sponsors 28 national championships. CBS Sports Network, formerly called CSTV, serves as the national media outlet for the NAIA. In 2014, ESPNU began carrying the NAIA football national championship, NAIA Football National Championship. History In 1937, James Naismith and local ...
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1968 Texas Southern Tigers Football Team
The 1968 Texas Southern Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Texas Southern University as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1968 NAIA football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Clifford Paul, the Tigers compiled an overall record of 6–4, with a mark of 6–1 in conference play, and finished as SWAC co-champion. Schedule References Texas Southern Texas Southern Tigers football seasons Southwestern Athletic Conference football champion seasons Texas Southern Tigers football The Texas Southern Tigers is the college football team representing Texas Southern University, a Historically black colleges and universities, historically black university (HBCU) in Houston. The Tigers play in the National Collegiate Athletic As ...

1956 Texas Southern Tigers Football Team
The 1956 Texas Southern Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Texas Southern University as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1956 college football season. Led by ninth-year head coach Alexander Durley, the Tigers compiled an overall record of 9–2, with a mark of 5–1 in conference play, and finished as SWAC co-champion. Schedule References Texas Southern Texas Southern Tigers football seasons Southwestern Athletic Conference football champion seasons Texas Southern Tigers football The Texas Southern Tigers is the college football team representing Texas Southern University, a Historically black colleges and universities, historically black university (HBCU) in Houston. The Tigers play in the National Collegiate Athletic As ...

Johnnie Cole
Johnnie N. Cole is a former American football player and coach. He had been a high school and college football coach from 1986 to 2015, including as the head football coach at Lane College from 2005 to 2007 and at Texas Southern University from 2008 to 2010. He had a career college football coaching record of 34–32. However, Cole had a history of ethical issues, resulting in 27 of his wins as a head coach being vacated and him being dismissed from multiple schools. Early life and education Cole graduated from Dunbar High School in Dayton, Ohio. He then attended Texas Southern University, playing at quarterback for the Texas Southern Tigers football team from 1982 to 1985 and graduating in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. Coaching career Assistant coach (1986–2004) From 1986 to 1991, Cole was an assistant quarterbacks and wide receivers coach at Texas Southern. Then in 1992, Cole was offensive coordinator and assistant head coach for Southwestern Colleg ...
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2010 Texas Southern Tigers Football Team
The 2010 Texas Southern Tigers football team represented Texas Southern University as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by third-year head coach Johnnie Cole, the Tigers compiled an overall record of 9–3, with a mark of 8–1 in conference play, and finished as SWAC champion. In October 2012, the NCAA officially vacated all wins from the 2010 season as part of their penalties for playing ineligible players during the season. This resulted in the vacating of all nine victories and their SWAC championship. Schedule References Texas Southern Texas Southern Tigers football seasons Southwestern Athletic Conference football champion seasons Texas Southern Tigers football The Texas Southern Tigers is the college football team representing Texas Southern University, a Historically black colleges and universities, historically black university (HBCU) in Houston. The Tigers play in the National C ...
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Alexander Durley
Alexander Durley (December 18, 1912 – July 18, 1980) was an American college football coach, college athletics administrator, and mathematics professor. He served as the head football coach at Texas College from 1942 to 1948, at Texas Southern University from 1949 to 1964, and at Prairie View A&M University from 1969 to 1970. He was inducted into the Southwestern Athletic Conference Hall of Fame in 1992. Career Durley was the head football coach at Texas College from 1942 to 1948, compiling a record of 45–15–6. From 1949 to 1964, Durley was head football coach and director of athletics at Texas Southern University. His coaching record there was 101–55–8. In their second year in the Midwest Athletic Association, Texas Southern went undefeated; in 1952 they beat Prairie View A&M in the Prairie View Bowl to win the black college football national championship; in their first season in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, 1958–1959, they shared the league championship with ...
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1952 Texas Southern Tigers Football Team
The 1952 Texas Southern Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Texas Southern University as a member of the Midwest Athletic Association (MAA) during the 1952 college football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Alexander Durley, the Tigers compiled an overall record of 10–0–1, with a mark of 2–0–1 in the MAA. Schedule References Texas Southern Texas Southern Tigers football seasons Midwest Athletic Association football champion seasons College football undefeated seasons Texas Southern Tigers football The Texas Southern Tigers is the college football team representing Texas Southern University, a Historically black colleges and universities, historically black university (HBCU) in Houston. The Tigers play in the National Collegiate Athletic As ...

AT&T SportsNet Southwest
The Space City Home Network is an American regional sports network owned jointly by the Houston Rockets and Houston Astros. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the network broadcasts regional coverage of sports events throughout Southeast Texas, mainly focusing on professional sports teams based in Greater Houston, namely the Astros and Rockets, as well as local college teams. The channel went on the air in 2012 as Comcast SportsNet Houston under the ownership of Houston Regional Sports Network L.P., a joint venture with Comcast, DirecTV & AT&T along with the Astros and Rockets, after the closure of Fox Sports Houston. Following the bankruptcy of Comcast SportsNet Houston in 2013, DirecTV and AT&T acquired the network in 2014 and relaunched under the Root Sports brand as Root Sports Southwest; but after DirecTV was acquired by AT&T, the channel is rebranded yet again to AT&T Sportsnet Southwest in 2017. In 2023, when Warner Bros. Discovery, the former WarnerMedia that AT&T acquired ...
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Labor Day Classic
The Labor Day Classic is an annual American football "classic" which features Texas Southern University and Prairie View A&M University, two of Texas' largest historically black universities on Labor Day weekend. It is played at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston or Panther Stadium at Blackshear Field in Prairie View, Texas. The classic is always the first matchup between two Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) teams of the football season. The first game between the two schools was in 1947. However, the classic began in 1985. In 1990, Texas Southern played and defeated the Hampton University Pirates since Prairie View A&M did not field a football team that year. The schools compete for the Durley-Nicks Trophy named after the two most legendary coaches from both schools. Alexander Durley is the winningest head football coach in Texas Southern football history. Billy Nicks, Sr. won five mythical black college national championships (last being in 1968) as head coach ...
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Midwest Athletic Association
The Midwest Athletic Association was an intercollegiate athletic conference of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) that existed from 1926 to 1970. It was later known as the Midwest Conference from 1962 to 1963 and as the Midwestern Conference from 1964 to 1970. The conference's membership was widespread due to the lack of HBCUs in the Midwest, with members located in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia,Eastern Intercollegiate Conference
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