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1997 Grambling State Tigers football team

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1997 record
  
3–8 (2–5 SWAC)

Home stadium
  
Eddie Robinson Stadium

Conference
  
Southwest Athletic Conference

Head coach
  
Eddie Robinson (55th year)

The 1997 Grambling State Tigers football team represented Grambling State University as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1997 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Tigers were led by head coach Eddie Robinson in his 55th year and finished the season with a record of three wins and eight losses (3–8, 2–5 SWAC). The Tigers offense scored 187 points while the defense allowed 258 points.

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This was Eddie Robinson's final season as head coach. Robinson spent fifty-six years as the head coach at historically black Grambling State University in Grambling in Lincoln Parish in northern Louisiana, from 1941 through 1997.

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    • Team players in the NFL

  • None of the players from the Tigers were drafted in the 1998 NFL Draft.

    • References

    1997 Grambling State Tigers football team Wikipedia
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