The Grambling Tigers
represent Grambling State University in NCAA intercollegiate athletics.
Grambling's sports teams participate in NCAA Division I (I-AA for football) in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).
Currently, the Grambling State University Department of Athletics sponsors Men's Intercollegiate football, along with men's and women's basketball, baseball, track & field, softball, golf, soccer, tennis, bowling and volleyball.
|
GRAMBLING STATE TIGERS TICKETS
|
Sports
Football
Grambling State plays its arch rival
Southern University in the annual
"Bayou Classic," which is hosted in
New Orleans over Thanksgiving weekend at the
Louisiana Superdome and broadcast nationally on
NBC.
Former football coach
Eddie Robinson holds the
NCAA record for most career wins as a head coach at a NCAA division I school.
During Robinson’s stellar 57-year coaching career, the University gained a national reputation because of the large number of athletes who joined the professional ranks in football.
After Robinson’s retirement in 1997, former GSU standout and NFL
Super Bowl XXII MVP
Doug Williams took over the reins of the University's football program.
Grambling has won thirteen
black college national championships, more than any other school in America (Robinson's teams won nine of those championships).
Pro Football Hall of Fame Members
- Willie Brown
- Buck Buchanan
- Willie Davis
- Charlie Joiner
Baseball
Olen Parker
James Cooper
Courtney Duncan
Gerald Williams
Men's Basketball
The Grambling State Tigers won the
NAIA National
championship tournament in
1961, beating
Georgetown College (Ky.). In the following years, the Tigers made it to the NAIA Final Four, and placed 3rd in
1963, and
1966, defeating
Fort Hays State (Kan.) and
Norfolk State (Va.) respectively. The Tigers appeared in the NAIA National Tournament eight times from
1959 to
1971. With a total NAIA National Tournament record of 19-7. Former NBA star
Charles Hardnett played for the National Championship Tiger team.
Women's Basketball
Track & Field
Softball
Golf
Soccer
Tennis
Bowling
Volleyball
Cheerleading
Traditions
Grambling State's colors are
black and
gold, with
red as a tertiary color symbolizing the blood of people of African descent. The school's mascot is the "Tigers," and its slogan is "Where everybody is Somebody."