Stillman Tigers starts season against No. 25 Shaw Bears

Coach Teddy Keaton
(Photo Courtesy: Steven Lockhart/Stillman College)

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - Teddy Keaton has only one chance to win his first game as Stillman College’s head football coach.

Stillman opens the season at 5 p.m. today against Shaw University from North Carolina. Shaw is ranked 25th in the American Football Coaches Association Division II poll and second in the Heritage Sports Radio Network for Division II Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The Bears posted a 9-3 record last season and won the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association title.

Shaw’s Charles Deas was the only CIAA player named to the Preseason HBCU All-American team as chosen by Boxtorow.com. Deas, a senior defensive lineman, had 56 tackles, 11.5 tackles for losses and 3.5 sacks in 2010.

No matter what happens today, Keaton has a plan for reviving the program at his alma mater.

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