Red River State Fair Classic
Red River State Fair Classic (since 2015)[1] | |
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Stadium | Independence Stadium (1924–1989, 1999, 2001–2003, 2010–2013, 2015–Present) |
Location | Shreveport, Louisiana |
Previous stadiums | State Fairgrounds field (1911–1917, 1919–1923) |
Operated | 1911–1917, 1919–1989, 1999, 2001–2003, 2010–2013, 2015–Present |
Former names | |
2016 matchup | |
Grambling State Tigers vs. Alabama State Hornets (21–0) | |
2017 matchup | |
Grambling State Tigers vs. TBA (TBA) |
The Red River State Fair Classic (formerly the State Fair Classic and, more recently, the Shreveport Classic) is an American college football game played annually in Shreveport, Louisiana, at Independence Stadium (formerly State Fair Stadium) during the State Fair of Louisiana.[11][12] By having first paired historically black colleges and universities in 1922, the game holds the distinction of being the oldest annual black college football classic, edging out the Turkey Day Classic by two years and the similar Texas State Fair Classic by three years. Also, so far, the earliest documented use of the term "classic" as part of a football game's formal name has been dated to the 1927 Louisiana State Fair Classic.[2]
State Fair Classic history
The fair began in 1906,[13] and attempts were made immediately to schedule a football game as a draw, specifically a game between Louisiana State University and the Shreveport Athletic Club.[14] Although plans for that game fell through, the fair did begin hosting college football games regularly starting in 1911. The annual Arkansas–LSU game was made its main draw[15] shortly afterward, much like the Red River Showdown game was headlining the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. The 1924 game featured a silver football trophy as part of the dedication ceremonies for the new State Fair Stadium.[16] After LSU won for the seventh straight time in 1936, that series was discontinued, and nearby schools Louisiana Tech and Northwestern State began playing in the featured game. When Louisiana Tech began efforts in the late 1980s to move into the NCAA's Division I-A, NSU began playing Louisiana–Monroe in the game.
In the past sometimes as many as four college games were played over the course of a single fair.[17] These games tended to include schools from the Ark-La-Tex area. The hometown school, Centenary, hosted numerous games over the years. Southwestern Athletic Conference schools (usually Southern or Grambling and Bishop or Wiley) often played on Mondays, in conjunction with the fair's "Negro Day"[18]—although the 1961 Grambling–Prairie View A&M game was overshadowed by a boycott by the Congress of Racial Equality in an effort to encourage improved integration at the fair[19] (despite a modern source that lists the 1962 game as also having been played in Shreveport,[20] the October 21, 1962 issue of the Shreveport Times confirms that the game was indeed moved back to an on-campus venue, this time in Prairie View, Texas). Through the years there was considerable cross-over between SWAC teams that played in Louisiana's State Fair Classic and Texas' own State Fair Classic, and the Grambling–Prairie View series itself is now held at the Texas fair. College freshman and high school teams were also known to compete at the fair in its earlier years,[21][17][22] including some pre-Louisiana High School Athletic Association era state championship games.[23][24] In 1934 and 1945 military teams were extended invitations to play; during World War II many colleges—including each of the classic's regular hosts, Centenary, Louisiana Tech, NSU, and Southern—had to discontinue football, while the service teams that appeared in their place helped fill in the gaps on active college teams' schedules and were even included in the Associated Press' college football rankings and bowl games as well.
With the NSU–ULM series returning to on-campus stadiums in 1990, the fair was left without regular tenants and, at times, had to reinvent itself. The Red River Classic—which had long served as an annual, early-season SWAC game for Grambling at Independence Stadium[25]—was moved, in conjunction with the fair, for the 1999 campaign. In 2001 a contest billed as the "Port City Classic–State Fair Game" was hosted by Southern during the fair,[8] but in 2002 the Port City Classic was spun-off separately from the fair and became an early September game instead;[26] the Red River Classic returned to the fair in its place. Louisiana College's newly-revived football program also saw a return to the fair that season, as well as in 2003. Prairie View and Grambling, in addition to competing annually at the Texas state fair, have hosted the most recent Louisiana fair games too. Prairie View hosted a series of four annual games dubbed the "Shreveport Classic" starting in 2010,[27][9] and Grambling began hosting the newly-named "Red River State Fair Classic" during the 2015 season. The City of Shreveport's government actively worked to revive the classic in 2010[27] and, as of 2016, remains a sponsor[28] despite the fact that the classic's new name drops its reference to the city and adds back its reference to the state fair. Over the 106 seasons between 1911 and 2016, 160 contests have been played as part of the Louisiana state fair's series of games.
Game results
Date | Winning team | Losing team | Attendance | ||
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November 4, 1911 | Louisiana Tech | 39 | Northwestern State[29] | 0 | |
November 2, 1912 | Henderson State | 14 | Louisiana Tech | 0[30] | |
November 8, 1913 | Louisiana Tech | 53 | Louisiana College | 0[31] | |
November 8, 1913 | LSU | 12 | Arkansas | 7[31] | |
November 7, 1914 | Louisiana Tech | 14 | Centenary | 0[23] | |
November 7, 1914 | Arkansas | 20 | LSU | 12 | 14,000[23] |
November 6, 1915 | Louisiana Tech | 20 | Northwestern State[24] | 7 | |
November 6, 1915 | LSU | 13 | Arkansas | 7 | 20,000[32] |
November 4, 1916 | Louisiana Tech | 24 | Northwestern State | 0[33] | |
November 4, 1916 | LSU | 17 | Arkansas | 7 | 5,000[34] |
November 3, 1917 | Northwestern State | 7 | Louisiana Tech | 0[33] | |
November 3, 1917 | Arkansas | 14 | LSU | 0 | |
October 30, 1918– November 4, 1918[35] |
(No intercollegiate games held, due to World War I) | ||||
October 25, 1919 | LSU | 20 | Arkansas | 0 | |
November 1, 1919 | Hendrix | 6 | Centenary | 0[36] | |
November 6, 1920 | LSU | 3 | Arkansas | 0 | |
October 29, 1921 | Northwestern State | 7 | Centenary[37] | 0 | |
November 5, 1921 | LSU | 10 | Arkansas | 7 | |
October 21, 1922 | Tennessee–Medical College | 14 | Centenary | 0 | 10,000[38] |
October 23, 1922[39] | Bishop | 19 | Southern | 0[40] | |
October 25, 1922 | Centenary | 20 | Northwestern State[41] (replaced Louisiana Tech)[39] | 0 | |
October 28, 1922 | Arkansas | 40 | LSU | 6 | |
October 20, 1923 | Centenary | 46 | Northwestern State[42] | 0 | |
October 27, 1923 | Arkansas | 26 | LSU | 13 | 13,000[43] |
November 1, 1924 | Arkansas | 10 | LSU | 7 | 8,000[44] (Stadium dedication trophy game)[16] |
November 3, 1924 | Wiley | 6 | Southern[45] | 0 | |
November 8, 1924 | Centenary | 7 | Central Oklahoma[46] | 6 | |
October 31, 1925 | Arkansas | 12 | LSU | 0 | 8,000[47] |
November 2, 1925[48] | Wiley | 6 | Southern[21] | 0 | |
November 7, 1925 | Centenary | 17 | Central Oklahoma | 7[49] | |
October 30, 1926 | Centenary | 14 | Central Oklahoma[17] | 10 | |
November 1, 1926 | Wiley[17] (replaced Arkansas Baptist)[50] | 32 | Southern[17] | 6 | |
November 6, 1926 | Stephen F. Austin | 28 | Northwestern State[17] | 0 | |
November 6, 1926 | LSU | 14 | Arkansas | 0 | |
October 28, 1927 | Centenary | 20 | Birmingham–Southern | 7 | (Game moved to Centenary Field, due to field conditions)[15] |
October 29, 1927 | Arkansas | 28 | LSU | 0 | 15,000[51] |
October 31, 1927 | Bishop | 34 | Southern[52] | 0 | |
November 5, 1927 | Northwestern State | 26 | Stephen F. Austin[15] | 0 | |
October 27, 1928 | Union–Tennessee | 26 | Louisiana Tech[53] | 0 | |
November 2, 1928 | Northwestern State | 26 | Stephen F. Austin | 0[54] | |
November 3, 1928 | Arkansas | 7 | LSU | 0 | 12,000[55] |
November 2, 1929 | Arkansas | 32 | LSU | 0 | 8,000[56] |
November 4, 1929 | Southern | 45 | Arkansas Baptist[57] | 7 | |
November 9, 1929 | Centenary | 0 | Henderson State | 0 | |
October 25, 1930 | Centenary | 7 | Baylor | 2 | |
October 27, 1930[58][59] | Southern | 6 | Wiley | 6 | |
November 1, 1930 | LSU | 27 | Arkansas | 12 | 7,000[60] |
October 24, 1931 | LSU | 13 | Arkansas | 6 | 10,000[61] |
October 26, 1931[62] | Southern | 14 | Wiley | 7 | |
October 31, 1931 | Texas A&M | 7 | Centenary | 0 | |
October 22, 1932 | LSU | 14 | Arkansas | 0 | 12,000[63] |
October 29, 1932 | Centenary | 7 | Texas A&M | 0 | |
October 21, 1933 | LSU | 20 | Arkansas | 0 | 10,000[64] |
October 23, 1933 | Southern | 6 | Bishop | 0[65] | |
October 28, 1933 | Centenary | 0 | TCU (replaced Texas)[66] | 0 | |
October 20, 1934 | LSU | 16 | Arkansas | 0 | 12,000[67] |
October 26, 1934[68] | Texas Military College | 26 | Barksdale Field Sky Raiders | 6 | |
October 27, 1934 | Centenary | 13 | TCU | 0 | |
October 19, 1935 | LSU | 13 | Arkansas | 7 | 10,000[69] |
October 21, 1935[70] | Bishop | 40 | Southern | 0 | |
October 26, 1935 | TCU | 27 | Centenary | 7 | |
October 24, 1936 | LSU | 19 | Arkansas | 7 | 15,000[71] |
October 31, 1936 | Ole Miss | 24 | Centenary | 7 | |
October 23, 1937 | Louisiana Tech | 14 | Northwestern State | 0 | |
October 30, 1937 | Centenary | 0 | Mississippi State | 0 | 10,000[72] |
November 1, 1937 | Wiley | 7 | Southern | 0 | 5,000[73] |
October 22, 1938 | Northwestern State | 7 | Louisiana Tech | 6 | |
October 29, 1938[74] | Centenary | 7 | Loyola Marymount | 6 | |
October 31, 1938[74] | Wiley | 14 | Southern | 12 | |
October 21, 1939 | Northwestern State | 26 | Louisiana Tech | 0 | |
October 28, 1939[75] | TCU | 21 | Centenary | 0 | |
October 30, 1939[75] | Wiley | 12 | Southern | 9 | 3,000[76] |
October 19, 1940 | Northwestern State | 13 | Louisiana Tech | 0 | 7,500[77] |
October 26, 1940 | Louisiana–Lafayette | 6 | Louisiana College | 0 | 3,000[78] |
October 28, 1940 | Southern | 19 | Wiley[79] | 0 | 3,500[80] |
October 18, 1941 | Louisiana Tech | 10 | Northwestern State | 0 | 8,000[81] |
October 25, 1941 | Washington–St. Louis | 13 | Centenary[82] | 7 | |
October 27, 1941 | Wiley | 6 | Southern[82] (forfeited)[83] | 22[84] | |
October 24, 1942 | Northwestern State | 10 | Louisiana Tech | 6 | |
November 1, 1943 | Wiley | 71 | Xavier–Louisiana[85] | 0 | |
October 30, 1944 | Wiley | 56 | Xavier–Louisiana[86] | 0 | |
October 20, 1945 | Selman Army Airfield Cyclones | 13 | Barksdale Field Sky Raiders | 0[87][88] | 4,500[88] |
October 27, 1945 | Barksdale Field Sky Raiders | 46 | Camp Swift Dragons[89] (replaced Lake Charles Army Airfield Flying Tigers)[90] | 0 | |
October 29, 1945 | Wiley | 26 | Randolph Field Black Ramblers[18][91] (replaced Tennessee State)[90] | 0 | |
October 26, 1946 | Louisiana Tech | 14 | Northwestern State | 7 | |
October 28, 1946 | Tuskegee | 21 | Wiley | 6 | 15,000[92] |
October 18, 1947 | Tennessee–Chattanooga | 20 | Centenary | 0[93] | |
October 25, 1947 | Louisiana Tech | 24 | Northwestern State | 0 | 10,000[94] |
October 27, 1947 | Grambling State | 20 | Bishop | 6 | 8,000[95] |
October 23, 1948 | Louisiana Tech | 10 | Northwestern State | 7 | 12,000[96] |
November 1, 1948 | Arkansas–Pine Bluff | 21 | Bishop | 6[97] | |
October 22, 1949 | Louisiana Tech | 28 | Northwestern State | 21 | |
October 31, 1949 | Grambling State | 55 | Tuskegee | 0[98] | |
October 21, 1950 | Louisiana Tech | 15 | Northwestern State | 7 | |
October 23, 1950 | Grambling State | 14 | Wiley | 14[99] | |
October 20, 1951 | Louisiana Tech | 21 | Northwestern State | 6 | |
October 22, 1951 | Grambling State | 19 | Wiley | 13 | 9,000[100] |
October 18, 1952 | Louisiana Tech | 22 | Northwestern State | 0 | |
October 20, 1952 | Grambling State | 18 | Wiley | 14[99] | |
October 24, 1953 | Northwestern State | 15 | Louisiana Tech | 7 | |
October 26, 1953 | Grambling State | 26 | Wiley | 0[101] | |
October 23, 1954 | Louisiana Tech | 13 | Northwestern State | 6 | |
October 25, 1954 | Grambling State | 35 | Wiley | 12[99] | |
October 22, 1955 | Louisiana Tech | 21 | Northwestern State | 20 | |
October 24, 1955 | Grambling State | 20 | Wiley | 0[102] | |
October 20, 1956 | Louisiana Tech | 0 | Northwestern State | 0 | 11,000[103] |
October 22, 1956 | Grambling State | 34 | Morris Brown | 12[104] | |
October 19, 1957 | Louisiana Tech | 20 | Northwestern State | 13 | |
October 21, 1957 | Wiley | 40 | Grambling State[105] | 12 | |
October 18, 1958 | Northwestern State | 18 | Louisiana Tech | 14 | 22,000[106] |
October 20, 1958 | Grambling State | 19 | Wiley[107] | 15 | |
October 24, 1959 | Louisiana Tech | 27 | Northwestern State | 14 | 23,500[106] |
October 26, 1959 | Prairie View A&M | 35 | Grambling State[108] | 6 | |
October 22, 1960 | Louisiana Tech | 13 | Northwestern State | 7 | 18,000[106] |
October 24, 1960 | Grambling State | 26 | Prairie View A&M | 0 | 10,000[109] |
October 21, 1961 | Northwestern State | 19 | Louisiana Tech | 7 | 24,000[106] |
October 23, 1961 | Grambling State | 34 | Prairie View A&M | 14 | 5,000 (Game played under fan boycott)[19] |
October 28, 1961 | Louisiana–Monroe | 27 | Louisiana–Lafayette | 20 | 3,700[110] |
October 20, 1962 | Northwestern State | 19 | Louisiana Tech | 2 | 22,000[106] |
October 27, 1962 | Louisiana–Lafayette | 18 | Louisiana–Monroe | 10 | 3,000[111] |
October 19, 1963 | Louisiana Tech | 27 | Northwestern State | 13 | 18,500[106] |
October 24, 1964 | Louisiana Tech | 16 | Northwestern State | 7 | 30,000[106] |
October 23, 1965 | Louisiana Tech | 42 | Northwestern State | 14 | 27,000[106] |
October 22, 1966 | Northwestern State | 28 | Louisiana Tech | 7 | 25,000[112] |
October 21, 1967 | Northwestern State | 7 | Louisiana Tech | 0 | 28,000[112] |
October 19, 1968 | Louisiana Tech | 42 | Northwestern State | 39 | 28,000[112] |
October 18, 1969 | Louisiana Tech | 42 | Northwestern State | 21 | 31,000[112] |
October 24, 1970 | Northwestern State | 20 | Louisiana Tech | 17 | 25,006[112] |
October 23, 1971 | Louisiana Tech | 33 | Northwestern State | 21 | 29,000[112] |
October 21, 1972 | Louisiana Tech | 20 | Northwestern State | 16 | 27,000[112] |
October 20, 1973 | Louisiana Tech | 26 | Northwestern State | 7 | 33,000[112] |
October 19, 1974 | Louisiana Tech | 34 | Northwestern State | 0 | 26,000[113] |
October 18, 1975 | Louisiana Tech | 41 | Northwestern State | 14 | 26,496[113] |
October 25, 1975 | Jacksonville State | 21 | Northwestern State | 0 | 382[114] (Smallest documented crowd) |
October 23, 1976 | Louisiana Tech | 35 | Northwestern State | 6 | 24,200[113] |
October 30, 1976 | North Texas | 14 | Louisiana Tech | 8 | 6,532[113] |
October 22, 1977 | Louisiana Tech | 30 | Northwestern State | 8 | 24,086[113] |
October 21, 1978 | Louisiana Tech | 45 | Northwestern State | 20 | 21,000[113] |
October 28, 1978 | North Texas | 16 | Louisiana Tech | 14 | 6,510[113] |
October 20, 1979 | Northwestern State | 25 | Louisiana Tech | 21 | 19,212[115] |
October 18, 1980 | Louisiana Tech | 27 | Northwestern State | 23 | 36,000[115] (Largest documented crowd) |
October 24, 1981 | Louisiana Tech | 37 | Northwestern State | 33 | 22,300[115] |
October 23, 1982 | Louisiana Tech | 33 | Northwestern State | 0 | 17,626[115] |
October 22, 1983 | Louisiana Tech | 21 | Northwestern State | 10 | 13,996[115] |
October 20, 1984 | Louisiana Tech | 5 | Northwestern State | 0 | 9,424[116] |
October 26, 1985 | Louisiana Tech | 33 | Northwestern State | 17 | 14,783[116] |
October 25, 1986 | Louisiana Tech | 13 | Northwestern State | 13 | 12,301[116] |
October 24, 1987 | Louisiana Tech | 23 | Northwestern State | 0 | 15,232[116] |
October 22, 1988 | Northwestern State | 27 | Louisiana–Monroe | 15 | 11,568[117] |
October 21, 1989 | Louisiana–Monroe | 14 | Northwestern State | 14 | 14,225[118] |
October 23, 1999 | Grambling State | 24 | Arkansas–Pine Bluff | 19 | 20,100[119] |
October 27, 2001 | Southern | 49 | Mississippi Valley State | 0 | 10,514[120] |
October 19, 2002 | Grambling State | 54 | Arkansas–Pine Bluff | 15 | 11,017[121] |
November 2, 2002 | East Texas Baptist | 28 | Louisiana College | 13 | 5,000[4] |
November 1, 2003 | East Texas Baptist | 30 | Louisiana College | 3 | 4,927[5] |
October 23, 2010 | Prairie View A&M | 30 | Southern | 16 | 19,979[122] |
October 29, 2011 | Jackson State | 44 | Prairie View A&M | 14 | 17,743[123] |
October 27, 2012 | Prairie View A&M | 49 | Southern | 29 | 12,223[124] |
October 26, 2013 | Jackson State | 51 | Prairie View A&M | 38 | 5,116[125] |
November 7, 2015 | Grambling State | 41 | Texas Southern | 15 | 9,868[126] |
November 12, 2016 | Grambling State | 21 | Alabama State | 0 | 15,043[127] |
Appearances by team
Team | Appearances | Record * |
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Alabama State | 1 | 0–1 (.000) |
Arkansas | 23 | 9–14–0 (.391) |
Arkansas–Pine Bluff | 3 | 1–2–0 (.333) |
Arkansas Baptist | 1 | 0–1–0 (.000) |
Barksdale Field Sky Raiders | 3 | 1–2–0 (.333) |
Baylor | 1 | 0–1–0 (.000) |
Birmingham–Southern | 1 | 0–1–0 (.000) |
Bishop | 6 | 3–3–0 (.500) |
Camp Swift Dragons | 1 | 0–1–0 (.000) |
Centenary | 23 | 10–10–3 (.500) |
Central Oklahoma | 3 | 0–3–0 (.000) |
East Texas Baptist | 2 | 2–0 (1.000) |
Grambling State | 18 | 15–2–1 (.861) |
Henderson State | 2 | 1–0–1 (.750) |
Hendrix | 1 | 1–0–0 (1.000) |
Jackson State | 2 | 2–0 (1.000) |
Jacksonville State | 1 | 1–0–0 (1.000) |
LSU | 23 | 14–9–0 (.609) |
Louisiana–Lafayette | 3 | 2–1–0 (.667) |
Louisiana–Monroe | 4 | 1–2–1 (.375) |
Louisiana College | 4 | 0–4–0 (.000) |
Louisiana Tech | 58 | 39–17–2 (.690) |
Loyola Marymount | 1 | 0–1–0 (.000) |
Mississippi State | 1 | 0–0–1 (.500) |
Mississippi Valley State | 1 | 0–1 (.000) |
Morris Brown | 1 | 0–1–0 (.000) |
North Texas | 2 | 2–0–0 (1.000) |
Northwestern State | 61 | 17–41–3 (.303) |
Ole Miss | 1 | 1–0–0 (1.000) |
Prairie View A&M | 7 | 3–4–0 (.429) |
Randolph Field Black Ramblers | 1 | 0–1–0 (.000) |
Selman Army Airfield Cyclones | 1 | 1–0–0 (1.000) |
Southern | 18 | 5–12–1 (.306) |
Stephen F. Austin | 3 | 1–2–0 (.333) |
TCU | 4 | 2–1–1 (.625) |
Tennessee–Chattanooga | 1 | 1–0–0 (1.000) |
Tennessee–Medical College | 1 | 1–0–0 (1.000) |
Texas A&M | 2 | 1–1–0 (.500) |
Texas Military College | 1 | 1–0–0 (1.000) |
Texas Southern | 1 | 0–1 (.000) |
Tuskegee | 2 | 1–1–0 (.500) |
Union–Tennessee | 1 | 1–0–0 (1.000) |
Washington–St. Louis | 1 | 1–0–0 (1.000) |
Wiley | 22 | 11–9–2 (.545) |
Xavier–Louisiana | 2 | 0–2–0 (.000) |
Note: *—Tie games were eliminated as a possibility with the introduction of overtime in 1996
See also
- Southwest Airlines State Fair Classic (Texas)
- List of black college football classics
- Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC)
- Sports in Shreveport-Bossier
References
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