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

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Date	Time	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	TV	Result
September 6		at Houston*		Astrodome • Houston, TX		L 3–20
September 13		West Texas State*		Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX		L 6–10
September 20		New Mexico State		Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX		L 14–17
October 4		Louisiana Tech		Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX		L 10–24
October 11		at Northeast Louisiana*		Brown Stadium • Monroe, LA		L 7–34
October 18		at Southwestern Louisiana		Cajun Field • Lafayette, LA		L 12–21
October 25		Arkansas State		Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX		L 0–17
November 1		vs. Southern Miss*		Superdome • New Orleans, LA		L 3–43
November 8		at Texas–Arlington		Turnpike Stadium • Arlington, TX		L 24–37
November 22		Southern Illinois*		Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX		W 30–10
November 29		at McNeese State		Cowboy Stadium • Lake Charles, LA		L 10–20
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#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.