Category: Lamar Cardinals
Monday night football coming to Lamar campus
BEAUMONT - Monday night football - Lamar University style - will hit campus under the lights and with all of the other normal trimmings at the Lamar Soccer Complex on Nov. 9.
Coach Ray Woodard and his staff will put their 65-man squad of scholarship players and walkons through a game-like scrimmage that will conclude the Cardinals’ fall workouts in preparation for their fulltime return to football during the 2010 season. The scrimmage, which will be open to the public free of charge, will begin at 7 p.m.
- 405 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals Lamar's Woodard to enter Kilgore College Hall of Fame
After enrolling as a freshman student at Kilgore College in the fall of 1979, Ray Woodard decided to take a stab at football as a walkon candidate during spring training.
It was a decision that paid huge dividends for the then gangly 220-pounder who had played in the offensive and defensive lines at Corrigan-Camden High School. Not only did Woodard make the Kilgore team in the fall of 1980, he earned second team Junior College All-America honors as a defensive tackle, and he was an honorable mention selection as a sophomore.
- 511 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals Lamar dedicates Coach Vernon Glass Field of Champions
While a student at Lamar University in the mid-1970s, Bart Simmons learned many things that helped him move on to a successful career in business - one that has seen him become owner of five Dallas area companies.
All that Simmons learned at Lamar, however, did not come in the classroom. Much of his knowledge was picked up on the football field where he received valuable inspiration from Cardinal head coach Vernon Glass.
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MOBILE, Ala. - The University of South Alabama football team will be able to test itself on numerous occasions against three other schools that are just starting their program with Friday’s announcement of future opponents.
The Jaguars will play home-and-home series against Georgia State, Lamar and Texas-San Antonio over the next three seasons, with two of those contracts set to begin in 2010.
- 494 words - Southland Conference, CAA, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners, South Alabama Jaguars Lamar to Play Six Home Games in 2010 Football Season
BEAUMONT, Texas – Lamar University completed its football schedule for 2010 Friday with the addition of Panhandle State as the Cardinals’ 11th opponent for the school’s first season of competition since 1989.
“We are certainly happy to finalize our schedule for what we believe will be a truly exciting season for our students and the entire community,” said Billy Tubbs, Lamar’s director of athletics. “We are particularly happy to have six home games and only five on the road.”
- 414 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals 2009 Southland Conference Football Media Day Quotes
The following is a compilation of quotes from coaches and players at Southland Conference Football Media Day:
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BEAUMONT, Texas – Lamar head football coach Ray Woodard has announced that former Beaumont West Brook standout Jacody Coleman has transferred to Lamar and will be a member of the school’s football program beginning this fall.
Coleman spent the last two seasons at the University of Iowa where he appeared in 22 games with three career starts as a middle linebacker. He made 52 totals tackles – including 15 solos – and collected six for loss. He made a career-high six at Penn State in 2007 as a true freshman.
- 336 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals Southland Announces 2009 Media Day Participants
The scheduled participants for this year’s Southland Conference Media Day event on July 29th in Lake Charles, La. were announced by the league today.
- 137 words - Southland Conference, Southeastern Louisiana Lions, McNeese State Cowboys, Sam Houston State Bearkats, Central Arkansas Bears, Nicholls State Colonels, Texas State Bobcats, Northwestern State Demons, Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks, Lamar Cardinals, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners CSN Update: Georgia State to Face South Alabama in '10, '11
College Sporting News has learned that Georgia State will face South Alabama in a home-and-home that starts in 2010 and wraps up in 2011.
This is another home-and-home in a series of games between 2010 newcomers USA, GSU and Lamar.
- 109 words - Southland Conference, CAA, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals, Georgia State Panthers, South Alabama Jaguars Lamar Football Artificial Turf Project Underway
Heavy equipment roared to life and work began today to prepare for the installation of a state-of-the-art artificial field turf at W.S. “Bud” Leonard Field in the Provost Umphrey Stadium at Lamar University.
Hellas Construction of Austin began demolition of the natural field turf and will install a state-of-the-art artificial field turf system, officials said. Hellas is installing the new “Matrix” field turf, the same product used by the Dallas Cowboys at their new stadium in Arlington.
- 311 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals Ray Woodard Announces Texas A&M Transfer Billy Chavis To Play Football At Lamar
Lamar head football coach Ray Woodard has announced that former Beaumont West Brook standout Billy Chavis has transferred to Lamar and will be a member of the school’s football program beginning this fall.
Chavis has spent the last two seasons at Texas A&M where he appeared in 11 games under coaches Dennis Franchione and Mike Sherman. He saw playing time on the defensive side of the ball, logging action at defensive end, linebacker and safety for the Aggies.
- 325 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals Lamar football renovation project still on hold
No heavy equipment has yet descended upon Provost Umphrey Stadium.
The projected start date for Lamar University to begin the massive renovation of its football complex in anticipation of its first football season since 1989 has come and gone. The project was set to begin on Monday. As of Tuesday, Lamar athletics director Billy Tubbs said financing for the project is still clearing hurdles.
- 409 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals Lamar close to begin remodeling football stadium, rebuilding field house
The movement to have Lamar University’s revived football team playing in a swanky, renovated stadium and housed in a plush, brand-spanking-new field house by September 2010 has been affected by the free fall that hit the national economy late last year.
In fact, the free fall landed a stunning blow, one that knocked the $29 million project off schedule by several months and now is putting it under the gun.
- 1414 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals Fans are beyond apathetic toward Lamar football (1985)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following column from the Best of West collection was originally published in the Port Arthur News on May 16, 1985
By now it’s become as predictable as Lamar university’s football team being the butt of jokes. The Cardinals, on their way to yet another season when they’ll win at least two games, take the field at home to thousands of empty seats.
- 919 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals Lamar football coach looks at 39 walk-on candidates
They came out of the stands and from across Texas to take a chance on a sun-splashed field that had not seen that kind of action in 20 years.
Some of the 39 participants at Lamar University’s open football tryouts on Monday looked as though they belonged. Others looked as though they were there as part of a fraternity stunt. Some were smooth and practiced. Others clumsy and overmatched. But they were all at Provost Umphrey Stadium competing for what likely will be only a couple spots on Lamar’s 2010 football team.
- 544 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals It's Recruiting Season for Lamar Football
Sunday afternoon, as the sun and clouds took turns playing peek-a-boo outside, Cardinal Stadium sat empty. It was so silent, so lifeless and empty, it might as well have been a library.
There were no hammers, no nails and certainly no footballs in sight.
Soon enough, all that will change.
College football season has a Southeast Texas flavor
Who says the Golden Age of Southeast Texas football is in the past?
Look at the AP Top 25.
There you see the Texas Longhorns, sitting at the end of the preseason Top 10 with a secondary that leans heavy on Golden Triangle talent.
Look at the the polls for the Football Championship Subdivision, the future home of Lamar football.
Find McNeese State, with its all-Ozen linebacker duo and its Newton-bred heir apparent at tailback, among the top 10 teams.
And, finally, look at the list of southeast Texas players on Division I rosters that accompanies this story.
Lamar Re-Institutes Football with Great Energy
HOUSTON - For much of the afternoon Tuesday, Ray Woodard sat by himself at a table well away from the spotlight reading preseason media guides and talking on a cell phone.
Woodard, the friendly, new Lamar University football coach, had more of a distance presence at Southland Conference Media Days. But he’s a major face in the league’s future.
This year, Woodard joked he could bring no players for preseason interviews because he really has none.
He’s building on a dream a big, long-awaited dream.
Lamar To Face Rival McNeese State In Football In 2010
BEAUMONT, Texas - Lamar and McNeese State athletic department officials have reached an agreement to play a non-conference game during the 2010 football season against each other at Cowboy Stadium in Lake Charles, La.
The contest, scheduled for Sept. 4, 2010, will see the longtime rivals meet on the gridiron for the first time since 1989 when Lamar defeated McNeese 20-19 in the final game before the Cardinals’ program was discontinued.
- 215 words - Southland Conference, McNeese State Cowboys, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals With no games until 2010, Lamar coach takes different approach to recruiting
BEAUMONT - Without any of those pesky games to get in the way, Lamar football coach Ray Woodard said he’ll spend more time this season on recruiting players than anything else.
Why? Because it has to be.
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