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Savannah State Tigers Football
The Savannah State Tigers football team represents Savannah State University in college football. The Tigers are members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC). The football team is traditionally the most popular sport at Savannah State and home games are played at Ted A. Wright Stadium in Savannah, Georgia. After moving to the NCAA Division I FCS in 2000, the Tigers compiled a record of 80–137. While in the FCS, the team competed in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. In 2019, the Tigers moved back to NCAA Division II and rejoined the SIAC. Savannah State has played football since 1902, though they did not field a team in 1943 to 1945. Through the 2018 season, the Tigers have compiled an all-time record of 491–567–18 (.465). The program's largest margin of victory was 87 points in an 87–0 victory over Miles College in 1992. The largest margin of defeat was 98 points against Bethune-Cookman College in 1953 (Bethune-Cookman 98, Savannah State 0). Prior ...
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Aaron Kelton
Aaron Kelton (born ) is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach for Savannah State University in Savannah, Georgia, a position he has held since 2022. Kelton served as the head football coach at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts from 2010 to 2015 and Shorter University in Rome, Georgia from 2016 to 2017. He was also the interim head football coach at Howard University in Washington, D.C. for the final three games of the 2019 season. Early years A native of Boston, Kelton attended Wellesley High School, where he played football, baseball, and basketball.Aaron Kelton
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Gateway Classic (football)
The St. Louis Golf Classic was a golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ... tournament on the Nike Tour. It ran from 1994 to 1998. From 1994 to 1996 it was played at Lake Forest Golf & Country Club in Lake St. Louis, Missouri. In 1997 and 1998 it was played at Missouri Bluffs Golf Course in St. Charles. In 1998 the winner earned $40,500. Winners Notes Former Korn Ferry Tour events Golf in Missouri St. Louis Golf Classic Recurring sporting events established in 1994 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1998 {{Missouri-sport-stub ...
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Steve Davenport
Steve Davenport (born May 3, 1967) is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at South Gwinnett High School in Snellville, Georgia, a position he has held since 2017. Davenport served as the head football coach at Savannah State University in Savannah, Georgia from 2011 to 2012, compiling a record of 2–20. Playing career Davenport was an All-American wide receiver at Southwest Dekalb High School in Decatur, Georgia. In college, he was a three-year starter at wide receiver, and a four-year letterman, for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets from 1985 to 1988. He was a member of the 1985 Yellow Jacket team that defeated Michigan State in the Hall of Fame Classic. Davenport is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a bachelor's degree in 1990 and a master's degree in 1994. Coaching career Davenport was hired as a defensive backs coach at Southwest DeKalb High School (1990–91). He served as a graduate assistant coach at Georgia Tech during the 1992 and 1993 seasons under ...
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2013 Savannah State Tigers Football Team
The 2013 Savannah State Tigers football team represented Savannah State University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers are members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). This was their first season under the guidance of head coach Earnest Wilson, and the Tigers played their home games at Ted Wright Stadium. They finished the season 1–11, 0–8 in MEAC play to finish in last place. Coaches and support staff Savannah State will go into the 2013 season with a completely new staff. On April 17, athletic director Sterling Steward Jr. announced that only cornerbacks coach Corey Barlow would return for the 2013 season. Barlow became the interim head coach until Savannah State announced the hiring of Coach Wilson on June 7, 2013. Media Radio flagship: WHCJBroadcasters: Toby Hyde (play-by-play), Curtis Foster (analyst) Schedule Game summaries Georgia Southern Troy Fort Valley State Miami Delaware State Norfolk State Florida A&M ...
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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 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 ...
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NCAA Division III
NCAA Division III (D-III) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. D-III consists of athletic programs at colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletic scholarships to their student-athletes. The NCAA's first split was into two divisions, the University and College Divisions, in 1956, the College Division was formed for smaller schools that did not have the resources of the major athletic programs across the country. The College Division split again in 1973 when the NCAA went to its current naming convention: Division I, Division II, and Division III. Division III schools are not allowed to offer athletic scholarships, while D-II schools can. Division III is the NCAA's largest division with around 450 member institutions, which are 80% private and 20% public. The median undergraduate enrollment of D-III schools is about 2,750, although the range is from 418 to over 38,000. Approximately 40% of all NCAA studen ...
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NCAA Division I-FCS Independent Schools
NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision independent schools are four-year institutions in the United States whose football programs are not part of a football conference. This means that FCS independents are not required to schedule each other for competition as conference schools do. As of the current 2022 FCS football season, no schools play as FCS independents. Current FCS independents There are no current FCS independents. Former FCS independents The following is a complete list of teams which have been Division I-AA/FCS Independents since the formation of Division I-AA in 1978. The "Current Conference" column indicates affiliations for the 2022 college football season. Years listed in this table are football seasons; since football is a fall sport, this means that the final season of independent status, or for membership in a given conference, is the calendar year before a conference change took effect. Teams in ''italics'' are current FBS members; this includes ...
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Mideastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose full members are historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southeastern and the Mid-Atlantic United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I, and in football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Currently, the MEAC has automatic qualifying bids for NCAA postseason play in baseball (since 1994), men's basketball (since 1981), women's basketball (since 1982), softball (since 1995), men's and women's tennis (since 1998), and volleyball (since 1994). Bowling was officially sanctioned as a MEAC governed sport in 1999. Before that season, the MEAC was the first conference to secure NCAA sanctioning for women's bowling by adopting the club sport prior to the 1996–97 school year. History In 1969, a group whose members were long associated with interscholastic athletics met in Durham, North Carolina for the purpose of ...
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Division I-AA
The NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), formerly known as Division I-AA, is the second-highest level of college football in the United States, after the Football Bowl Subdivision. Sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the FCS level comprises 130 teams in 15 conferences as of the 2022 season. The FCS designation is only tied to football with the non-football sports programs of each school generally competing in NCAA Division I. History From 1906 to 1955, the NCAA had no divisional structure for member schools. Prior to the 1956 college football season, schools were organized into an upper NCAA University Division and lower NCAA College Division. From 1973 to 1977, all schools participated in a single NCAA Division I group. Prior to the 1978 season, schools were again organized into upper NCAA Division I-A and lower NCAA Division I-AA groupings. These two divisions were renamed as NCAA Division I FBS and NCAA Division I FCS prior ...
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Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville State University (JSU) is a public university in Jacksonville, Alabama. Founded in 1883, Jacksonville State offers programs of study in six academic schools leading to bachelor's degree, bachelor's, master's degree, master's, education specialist, and doctorate degrees in addition to certificate programs and continuing education opportunities. In the Fall semester of 2011, JSU began offering the school's first doctoral degree, Doctor of Science in Emergency Management. In 2016, the university gained approval to offer its second doctorate, a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree. The university was founded as Jacksonville State Normal School, and in 1930, the name changed to Jacksonville State Teachers College, and again in 1957, to Jacksonville State College. The university began operating as Jacksonville State University in 1966. JSU currently has an enrollment of more than 9,000 students, with nearly 500 faculty members (more than 320 of whom are full-time). Jack ...
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NCAA Division I FCS Independent Schools
NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision independent schools are four-year institutions in the United States whose football programs are not part of a football conference. This means that FCS independents are not required to schedule each other for competition as conference schools do. As of the current 2022 FCS football season, no schools play as FCS independents. Current FCS independents There are no current FCS independents. Former FCS independents The following is a complete list of teams which have been Division I-AA/FCS Independents since the formation of Division I-AA in 1978. The "Current Conference" column indicates affiliations for the 2022 college football season. Years listed in this table are football seasons; since football is a fall sport, this means that the final season of independent status, or for membership in a given conference, is the calendar year before a conference change took effect. Teams in ''italics'' are current FBS members; this includes ...
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Southeastern Athletic Conference
The Southeastern Athletic Conference (SEAC) was an intercollegiate athletic conference of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) that existed from 1929 to 1961. It was known as the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association between 1929 and 1942. The conference's members were located in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.Southeastern Athletic Conference
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Football champions

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