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Grambling Tigers
The Grambling State Tigers and Lady Tigers represent Grambling State University in NCAA intercollegiate athletics. Grambling's sports teams participate in Division I (I-FCS for football) as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). Sports sponsored Baseball Notable players *Tommie Agee * Matt Alexander *Courtney Duncan *Ralph Garr *Johnny Jeter *Lenny Webster * Gerald Williams *Gary Eave Men's basketball The Grambling State Tigers won the NAIA National championship tournament in 1961, beating Georgetown College (Ky.). The victory made Grambling State the first and only college basketball program in the state to win a national basketball championship. 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†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grambling State University
Grambling State University (GSU, Grambling, or Grambling State) is a public historically black university in Grambling, Louisiana. Grambling State is home of the Eddie G. Robinson Museum and is listed on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. Grambling State is a member-school of the University of Louisiana System and Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Grambling State's athletic teams compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and are known as the Grambling State Tigers. The university is a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. History Grambling State University developed from the desire of African-American farmers in rural north Louisiana who wanted to educate other African Americans in the northern part of the state. In 1896, the North Louisiana Colored Agriculture Relief Association led by Lafayette Richmond was formed to organize and operate a school. After opening a small school west of what is now the town of Grambling, the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommie Agee
Tommie Lee Agee (August 9, 1942 – January 22, 2001) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a center fielder from through , most notably as a member of the New York Mets team that became known as the Miracle Mets when, they rose from being perennial losers to defeat the favored Baltimore Orioles in the 1969 World Series for one of the most improbable upsets in World Series history. Agee performed two impressive defensive plays in center field to help preserve a Mets victory in the third game of the series. A two-time Major League All-Star player, Agee was also a two-time Gold Glove Award winner and, was named the AL Rookie of the Year in 1966 as a member of the Chicago White Sox. He also played for the Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros and the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2002, Agee was posthumously inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame. Early life Agee was born in Magnolia, Alabama, and played baseball and football at Mobile Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1966 NAIA men's basketball tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 29th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. This tournament featured the game with the most points scored. Al Tucker received the MVP award for the second time this year. Awards and honors *Leading scorer: ''Al Tucker'', Oklahoma Baptist; 5 games, 69 field goals, 44 free throws, 182 total points (36.4 average points per game) *Leading rebounder: ''Richard Pitts'', Norfolk State (Va.); 5 games, 76 total rebounds (15.2 average rebounds per game) *Player of the Year: est. 1994 *Most team points; single-game: ''132'', Norfolk State (Va.) vs. Upper Iowa 97 *Most team points; tournament: ''521'', Norfolk State (Va.), (104.2 avg.) *Most field goals made; single-game: ''57'', Norfolk State (Va.) vs. Upper Iowa *Most field goals made; tournament: ''216'', Norfolk State (Va.) *Top single-game performances: ''Earl Beechum 11t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1963 NAIA men's basketball tournament was held March 11–16 at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 26th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. This tournament did not feature any games going into overtime. This was the first tournament to feature a Leading Scorer, and Leading Rebounder awards. They were presented to Mel Gibson, Willis Reed and Lucious Jackson respectively. In the inaugural year of the Leading Scorer award, there was a tie. This would not happen again until 1981. Awards and honors *Leading scorers; tie: ''Mel Gibson'', Western Carolina (N.C.) 5 games, 60 field goals 17 free throws 137 total points (27.4 average points per game) and ''Willis Reed'', Grambling (La.) 5 games, 58 field goals, 21 free throws, 137 total points (27.4 average points per game) *Leading rebounder: ''Lucious Jackson'', Pan American (Texas), 5 games, 93 rebounds (18.6 rebounds per game) *Player of the Year: est. 1994 *M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgetown College (Kentucky)
Georgetown College is a Private college, private Christian college in Georgetown, Kentucky. Chartered in 1829, Georgetown was the first Baptist college west of the Appalachian Mountains. The college offers 38 undergraduate degrees and a Master of Arts in education. It offers degrees in areas of visual and performing arts, math and sciences, humanities, language and culture, business, medicine and healthcare, and others. Georgetown College is associated with five Rhodes Scholars and its alumni have included 38 Fulbright Scholars since 1989. History In 1829, the Kentucky General Assembly chartered the Kentucky Baptist Education Society with the purpose of establishing a Baptist college in the state. 24 trustees under the leadership of Silas Noel selected the town of Georgetown as the site for the new school. Georgetown College's early years were defined by perseverance in the face of hardships. The first president hired by the college in 1829, William D. Staughton, died before as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1961 NAIA men's basketball tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 24th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. The championship game featured the 13th seeded Grambling and the third seeded Georgetown. For the first time since seeding, in 1958, the third-place game featured the first and second seeds, Northern Michigan, and Westminster. Awards and honors Many of the records set by the 1961 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later: *Leading scorer: est. 1963 *Leading rebounder: est. 1963 *Player of the Year: est. 1994 *All-time leading scorer; first appearance: ''Willis Reed, 16th'' Grambling (1961,63,64), 12 games 108 field goals 39 free throws 265 total points, 22.8 average per *All-time leading scorer; second appearance: ''Hershell West, 15th'' Grambling (1960,61,63), 13 games, 116 field goals, 37 free throws, 269 total points, 20.7 average p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NAIA National Men's Basketball Championship
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics men's basketball national championship has been held annually since 1937 (with the exception of 1944 and 2020). The tournament was established by James Naismith to crown a national champion for smaller colleges and universities. Through the 2019–20 season, the NAIA Tournament featured 32 teams, and the entire tournament was contested at one location in one week, rather than multiple locations over a series of weekends. Beginning with the 2021 edition, the tournament expanded to 48 teams, starting with play at 16 regional sites, with only the winners at these sites playing at the final venue. The 2022 tournament expanded again to 64 teams. From 1992 to 2020, the NAIA sponsored a Division II championship. The Division I tournament is played in Kansas City, Missouri, while in 2020, the Division II tournament was to be held for the last time at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; however, the tournaments were cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Association Of Intercollegiate Athletics
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) established in 1940, is a college athletics association for colleges and universities in North America. Most colleges and universities in the NAIA offer athletic scholarships to its student athletes. For the 2021–22 season, it has 252 member institutions, of which two are in British Columbia, one in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the rest in the conterminous United States, with over 77,000 student-athletes participating. The NAIA, whose headquarters is in Kansas City, Missouri, sponsors 27 national championships. The 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. History In 1937, James Naismith and local leaders, including George Goldman and Emil Liston, staged the first National College Basketball Tournament at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri, of which Goldman was director, one year befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Eave
Gary Louis Eave (born July 22, 1963) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves (-) and Seattle Mariners The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball team based in Seattle. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League West, West division. The team joined the American League ... (). College Baseball Grambling State Gary played 2 years of division 1 NCAA baseball for the Grambling State Tigers where he had a 75% win percentage, winning 18 of his 24 games. He gave up 0 home runs and struck out 157 batters in his 172.2 innings with the Tigers. Minor and Major league career Braves Gary Eave was drafted in the 12th round of the 1985 MLB draft to the Atlanta Braves. After being drafted, he was placed on the Braves rookie team, the Gulf Coast Braves, where he played 3 games before being moved up to the Sumter Braves, a A team in 1986. In 1988, Eave played his first MLB season w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Williams (baseball)
Gerald Floyd Williams (August 10, 1966 – February 8, 2022) was an American professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and New York Mets from 1992 to 2005. Professional career Draft and minor leagues The New York Yankees selected Williams in the 14th round, with the 366th overall selection, of the 1987 Major League Baseball draft out of Grambling State University. In 1988, in the New York–Penn League for Oneonta, he batted .365/.447/.504 with two home runs in 115 at bats. He was then promoted to High-A ball where he hit .210 in the next two seasons. Playing in a league that is notoriously tough for hitters (Florida State League) he hit .289/.344/.461. Mid-season, he was sent up to AA and the Eastern League. There, he batted .250/.328/.435. Combined, he hit .265 with 140 hits, 20 home runs, 101 runs batted in (RBIs), and 37 stolen bases. For 1992, he hit .285/.334/.4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenny Webster
Leonard Irell Webster (born February 10, 1965) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 1989 to 2000. Webster was one of the active players wearing number 42 while playing for the Baltimore Orioles when Major League Baseball retired the number to honor Jackie Robinson in 1997. Retrieved April 15, 2021 He made his debut on September 1, 1989 as a defensive replacement at catcher with the Minn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Jeter (baseball)
John Jeter (born October 24, 1944) is an American former professional baseball player, an outfielder who played 336 games of Major League Baseball for four teams — the Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians — between and . Jeter is an alumnus of Grambling State University. He threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . During his Major League career, Jeter collected 213 hits, including 27 doubles, ten triples and 18 home runs. He is the father of former Major League outfielder Shawn Jeter Shawn Darrell Jeter (born June 28, 1966) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He is the son of former Major League Baseball outfielder Johnny Jeter. Career Drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 7th round of the 1985 MLB amate .... External links 1944 births Living people African-American baseball players Alijadores de Tampico players American expatriate baseball players in Mexico Baseball players fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
