| Grambling Tigers | |
| University | Grambling State University |
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| Conference(s) | SWAC |
| NCAA | Division I |
| Athletics director | J. Lin Dawson |
| Location | Grambling, LA |
| Varsity teams | |
| Football stadium | Eddie Robinson Stadium |
| Basketball arena | HOBDY ASSEMBLY ARENA |
| Baseball stadium | Tiger Field |
| Nickname | Tigers and/or Lady Tigers |
| Fight song | |
| Colors | Black and Gold
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| Homepage | www.gsutigers.com |
The Grambling Tigers represent Grambling State University in NCAA intercollegiate athletics. Grambling's sports teams participate in Division I (I-AA for football) as a member of 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.
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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 Tiger.
Grambling State plays its arch rival Southern University in the annual "Bayou Classic," which is hosted at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana over Thanksgiving weekend and broadcast nationally on NBC. GSU also plays in the annual State Fair Classic against the Prairie View A&M Panthers at the Cotton Bowl, in Fair Park, in Dallas, Texas.
Former football coach Eddie Robinson previously held the NCAA record for most career wins as a head coach at a NCAA division I school.
During Robinson’s 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 fourteen black college national championships, more than any other school (Robinson's teams won nine of those championships).
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.
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