1964 Lamar Tech Cardinals football team
| 1964 Lamar Tech Cardinals football | |
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Southland champion | |
Pecan Bowl, L 17–19 vs. State College of Iowa | |
| Conference | Southland Conference |
| 1964 record | 6–3–1 (3–0–1 Southland) |
| Head coach | Vernon Glass (2nd year) |
| Home stadium |
Cardinal Stadium (Capacity: 17,500) |
| 1964 Southland Conference football standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lamar Tech $ | 3 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arkansas State | 2 | – | 0 | – | 2 | 7 | – | 0 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trinity (TX) | 2 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abilene Christian | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arlington State | 0 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1964 Lamar Tech Cardinals football season was the program's first season in the new on–campus Cardinal Stadium now named Provost Umphrey Stadium. The Cardinals and the Southland Conference competed at the NCAA College Division level in 1964. Winning the Southland Conference championship with a 3–0–1 conference record and a 6–3–1 overall record, the Cardinals played in the inaugural Pecan Bowl losing to Northern Iowa by the score of 19–17.[1]
Honors and recognitions
Vernon Glass was named NCAA College Division Coach of the Year for the season.[2]
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | ||
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| September 19 | East Central* | Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX | W 21–0 | 13,567 | |||||
| September 26 | Abilene Christian | Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX | W 14–3 | 14,381 | |||||
| October 3 | at Trinity (TX) | San Antonio, TX | W 14–7 | 2,026 | |||||
| October 17 | at San Diego Marines* | San Diego, CA | L 28–33 | 5,000 | |||||
| October 24 | Texas A&I* | Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX | L 12–13 | 12,256 | |||||
| October 31 | Arlington State | Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX | W 17–7 | 11,021 | |||||
| November 7 | New Mexico State* | Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX | W 21–14 | 11,252 | |||||
| November 14 | at Arkansas State | Indian Stadium • Jonesboro, AR | T 7–7 | 4,400 | |||||
| November 21 | at SW Missouri* | Briggs Stadium • Springfield, MO | W 14–7 | ||||||
| December 12 | vs. State College of Iowa* | Shotwell Stadium • Abilene, TX (Pecan Bowl) | L 17–19 | 7,500 | |||||
*Non-conference game.  Homecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Central Time. | |||||||||
References
- ↑ "Iowa Team Tops Lamar Tech, 19-17". New York Times. December 13, 1964. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
- ↑ "University Dedicates Coach Vernon Glass Field of Champions". September 22, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
Glass was also the NCAA College Division Coach of the Year in 1964 and 1965, and he was recognized by the Texas Sports Writers Association as Junior College Coach of the Year in 1959 while he was at Del Mar College.
- ↑ "2015 Lamar University Football". Lamar University Athletics. pp. 108–109. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
- ↑ "Archived Team-by-Team Final Statistics". NCAA.org. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
- ↑ David DeLassus. "Lamar Yearly Results (1960-1964)". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
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