1975 Lamar Cardinals football team

1975 Lamar Cardinals football
Conference Southland Conference
1975 record 1–10 (0–5 Southland)
Head coach Vernon Glass (13th year)
Home stadium Cardinal Stadium
(Capacity: 17,500)
1975 Southland Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Arkansas State $ 5 0 0     11 0 0
Louisiana Tech 4 1 1     8 2 0
McNeese State 3 2 0     7 4 0
Southwestern Louisiana 2 3 0     6 5 0
Texas–Arlington 1 4 0     4 7 0
Lamar 0 5 0     1 10 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1975 Lamar Cardinals football team represented Lamar University in the 1975 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Southland Conference. The Cardinals played their home games at Cardinal Stadium now named Provost Umphrey Stadium in Beaumont, Texas. Lamar finished the 1975 season with a 1–10 overall record and a 1–4 conference record. The 1975 season was coach Vernon Glass's final season as the Cardinals' head football coach. Playing the Southern Miss Golden Eagles in the Superdome and the Houston Cougars in the Astrodome, the Cardinals became "...the first collegiate team to play games in two domed stadiums in the same season".[1]

Schedule

[2] [3] [4]

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result
September 6 at Houston* AstrodomeHouston, TX   L 320    
September 13 West Texas State* Cardinal StadiumBeaumont, TX   L 610    
September 20 New Mexico State Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX   L 1417    
October 4 Louisiana Tech Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX L 1024    
October 11 at Northeast Louisiana* Brown StadiumMonroe, LA   L 734    
October 18 at Southwestern Louisiana Cajun FieldLafayette, LA   L 1221    
October 25 Arkansas State Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX   L 017    
November 1 vs. Southern Miss* SuperdomeNew Orleans, LA   L 343    
November 8 at Texas–Arlington Turnpike StadiumArlington, TX   L 2437    
November 22 Southern Illinois* Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX   W 3010    
November 29 at McNeese State Cowboy StadiumLake Charles, LA   L 1020    
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Central Time.

References

  1. David Henry (June 27, 2010). "Coaches have fond memories of Astrodome". Beaumont Enterprise. Hearst Newspapers, LLC II. Retrieved March 26, 2016. The Cardinals have played at the Astrodome three times. In 1975, Lamar played Houston, losing 21-3. The Cardinals played Southern Mississippi in New Orleans at the Super Dome that year, becoming the first collegiate team to play games in two domed stadium in the same season.
  2. "2015 Lamar University Football". Lamar University Athletics. pp. 108–109. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  3. "Archived Team-by-Team Final Statistics". NCAA.org. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  4. David DeLassus. "Lamar Yearly Results (1975-1979)". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
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