Texas Southern Tigers Football
The Texas Southern Tigers is the college football team representing Texas Southern University, a historically black university (HBCU) in Houston. The Tigers play in the NCAA's Division I FCS as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), a conference whose members are all HBCUs. In 2012, the Tigers moved into the new PNC Stadium, built for the city's Major League Soccer team, the Houston Dynamo. It replaced the Alexander Durley Sports Complex as the home of Tiger football. History Classifications * 1952–1972: NCAA College Division * 1952–1969: NAIA * 1970–1984: NAIA Division I * 1973–1976: NCAA Division II * 1977: NCAA Division I * 1978–present: NCAA Division I-AA/FCS Conference memberships * 1947–1951: Independent * 1952–1954: Midwest Athletic Association * 1955–present: Southwestern Athletic Conference Football Classics Labor Day Classic The Tigers compete against the Panthers of Prairie View A&M in the Labor Day Classic for the Durley- ...
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Clarence McKinney
Clarence McKinney (born December 26, 1970) is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at Texas Southern University. Early years McKinney played football at Montana State for three years before transferring to the University of Mary, where he achieved a bachelor's degree in elementary education. Coaching career McKinney's first head coaching job was at Jack Yates High School in Houston, Texas, where he compiled a record of 30–8. McKinney then began a long tenure as an assistant for Kevin Sumlin, being on Sumlin's staffs at Houston, Texas A&M, and Arizona. McKinney was named the head coach of Texas Southern on December 3, 2018. Influences In addition to Kevin Sumlin, McKinney said he learned from Dana Holgorsen and Kliff Kingsbury Kliff Timothy Kingsbury (born August 9, 1979) is an American football coach and former quarterback who is the head coach for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He was previously a collegiate football ...
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NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athletic powers, with large budgets, more elaborate facilities and more athletic scholarships than Divisions II and III as well as many smaller schools committed to the highest level of intercollegiate competition. This level was previously called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower-level College Division; these terms were replaced with numeric divisions in 1973. The University Division was renamed Division I, while the College Division was split in two; the College Division members that offered scholarships or wanted to compete against those who did became Division II, while those who did not want to offer scholarships became Division III. For college football only, D-I schools are further divided into the Football B ...
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Clifford Paul
Clifford "Jack" Paul (born c. 1931) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1965, he was hired as the head football coach at Texas Southern University Texas Southern University (Texas Southern or TSU) is a public historically black university in Houston, Texas. The university is one of the largest and most comprehensive historically black college or universities in the USA with nearly 10,00 ..., where he remained for five seasons. Head coaching record References {{DEFAULTSORT:Paul, Clifford Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Edward Waters Tigers athletic directors Edward Waters Tigers football coaches Texas Southern Tigers football coaches Florida A&M University alumni New York University alumni African-American coaches of American football African-American college athletic directors in the United States 20th-century African-Americ ...
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1964 Texas Southern Tigers Football Team
The 1964 Texas Southern Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Texas Southern University as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1964 NCAA College Division football season. Led by 16th-year head coach Alexander Durley, the Tigers compiled an overall record of 5–5, with a mark of 3–4 in conference play, and finished tied for fourth in the SWAC. Schedule References Texas Southern Texas Southern Tigers football seasons Texas Southern Tigers football The Texas Southern Tigers is the college football team representing Texas Southern University, a historically black university (HBCU) in Houston. The Tigers play in the NCAA's Division I FCS as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference ( ...

1956 Texas Southern Tigers Football Team
The 1956 Texas Southern Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Texas Southern University as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1956 NCAA College Division football season. Led by ninth-year head coach Alexander Durley, the Tigers compiled an overall record of 9–2, with a mark of 5–1 in conference play, and finished as SWAC co-champion. Schedule References Texas Southern Texas Southern Tigers football seasons Southwestern Athletic Conference football champion seasons Texas Southern Tigers football The Texas Southern Tigers is the college football team representing Texas Southern University, a historically black university (HBCU) in Houston. The Tigers play in the NCAA's Division I FCS as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference ( ...

Johnnie Cole
Johnnie Cole is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee from 2005 to 2007 and at Texas Southern University Texas Southern University (Texas Southern or TSU) is a public historically black university in Houston, Texas. The university is one of the largest and most comprehensive historically black college or universities in the USA with nearly 10,00 ... from 2008 to 2010, compiling a career college football coaching record of 34–32. Head coaching record References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cole, Johnnie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American football quarterbacks Kansas State Wildcats football coaches Lane Dragons football coaches Tennessee State Tigers football coaches Texas Southern Tigers football coaches Texas Southern Tigers football players High school football coaches in Texas ...
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2010 Texas Southern Tigers Football Team
The 2010 Texas Southern Tigers football team represented Texas Southern University as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by third-year head coach Johnnie Cole, the Tigers compiled an overall record of 9–3, with a mark of 8–1 in conference play, and finished as SWAC champion. In October 2012, the NCAA officially vacated all wins from the 2010 season as part of their penalties for playing ineligible players during the season. This resulted in the vacating of all nine victories and their SWAC championship. Schedule References Texas Southern Texas Southern Tigers football seasons Southwestern Athletic Conference football champion seasons Texas Southern Tigers football The Texas Southern Tigers is the college football team representing Texas Southern University, a historically black university (HBCU) in Houston. The Tigers play in the NCAA's Division I FCS as a member of the Southwestern ...
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Alexander Durley
Alexander Durley (December 18, 1912 – July 18, 1980) was an American college football coach, college athletics administrator, and mathematics professor. He served as the head football coach at Texas College from 1942 to 1948, at Texas Southern University from 1949 to 1964, and at Prairie View A&M University from 1969 to 1970. He was inducted into the Southwestern Athletic Conference Hall of Fame in 1992. Career Durley was the head football coach at Texas College from 1942 to 1948, compiling a record of 45–15–6. From 1949 to 1964, Durley was head football coach and director of athletics at Texas Southern University. His coaching record there was 101–55–8. In their second year in the Midwest Athletic Association, Texas Southern went undefeated; in 1952 they beat Prairie View A&M in the Prairie View Bowl to win the black college football national championship; in their first season in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, 1958–1959, they shared the league championship ...
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1952 Texas Southern Tigers Football Team
The 1952 Texas Southern Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Texas Southern University as a member of the Midwest Athletic Association (MAA) during the 1952 college football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Alexander Durley, the Tigers compiled an overall record of 10–0–1, with a mark of 2–0–1 in the MAA. Schedule References Texas Southern Texas Southern Tigers football seasons College football undefeated seasons Texas Southern Tigers football The Texas Southern Tigers is the college football team representing Texas Southern University, a historically black university (HBCU) in Houston. The Tigers play in the NCAA's Division I FCS as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference ( ...

Cotton Bowl Stadium
The Cotton Bowl is an outdoor stadium in Dallas, Texas, United States. Opened in 1930 as Fair Park Stadium, it is on the site of the State Fair of Texas, known as Fair Park. The Cotton Bowl was the longtime home of the annual college football post-season bowl game known as the Cotton Bowl Classic, for which the stadium is named. Starting on New Year's Day 1937, it hosted the first 73 editions of the game, through January 2009; the game was moved to AT&T Stadium in Arlington in January 2010. The stadium also hosts the Red River Showdown, the annual college football game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns, and the First Responder Bowl. The stadium has been home to many football teams over the years, including: SMU Mustangs (NCAA), Dallas Cowboys ( NFL; 1960–1971), Dallas Texans (NFL) (1952), Dallas Texans (AFL; 1960–1962), and soccer teams, the Dallas Tornado (NASL; 1967–1968), and FC Dallas (MLS; as the Dallas Burn 1996–2004, as FC Dalla ...
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Texas State Fair
The State Fair of Texas is an annual state fair held in Dallas at historic Fair Park. The fair has taken place every year since 1886 except for varying periods during World War I and World War II as well as 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It usually begins the last Friday in September and ends 24 days later. The fair claims an annual attendance of over two million visitors through ticket scanning. The State Fair of Texas is considered one of the best in America as well as Dallas' signature event despite its troubled history. Attractions The State Fair of Texas's opening day ceremonies are highlighted by the annual Friday parade rolling through downtown Dallas. In 2019, the parade moved to Fair Park. The fair also has a nightly parade called the Starlight Parade and a nightly light show called Illumination Sensation around the park's esplanade. However, the start of the fair is largely viewed negatively by the residential, as the blight it creates is so severe that it depress ...
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Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County with portions extending into Collin, Denton, Kaufman and Rockwall counties. With a 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the ninth most-populous city in the U.S. and the third-largest in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea. The cities of Dallas and nearby Fort Worth were initially developed due to the construction of major railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle and later oil in North and East Texas. The construction of the Interstate Highway System reinforced Dallas's ...
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