Grambling, Alcorn State coaches have long history

Shreveport, LA - You know all the old favorite sayings, don’t you? Life has a funny way of coming full-circle. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Stuff along those lines. Sometimes, they’re overused. Sometimes, they’re right on the money.

Clearly, Saturday’s game in Shreveport is a case of the latter.

At Independence Stadium, Grambling and Alcorn State will square off in the latest chapter a long-running, old-fashioned football rivalry. They’ll kick off the season in a game that will give the winner an early leg up in the Southwestern Athletic Conference standings.



In other words, this meeting feels like old times.

“Even back in the good old days, Alcorn was always that first game for Grambling,” Grambling coach Doug Williams said. “I think that’s the way it should be.”

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Louisiana Tech and Grambling State Tigers Football Has a Date

SHREVEPORT, LA — Shreveport Mayor Cecil B. Glover couldn’t keep from using a New Orleans Saints’ analogy when speaking about the historic football game announced by Louisiana Tech University and Grambling State here Tuesday. “Hell has refrozen and the pigs are starting to sing again,” laughed Glover. “And Louisiana Tech and Grambling are going to be playing a football game.” Not just any football game, mind you, but the very first one between two schools located five miles from each other.

It’s set at the very site where Glover and other city and university representatives made it official with a late morning press conference — at Independence Stadium, where the Tigers and Bulldogs will collide on Sept. 4 at 6 p.m. “It’s 2010 and it’s been a long time in coming,” said former GSU head baseball coach Wlbert Ellis. “This is such a great opportunity for two great institutions to continue their relationship.

“We’re going to have a great game, we’re going to have fun and we’re going to fill the stands. But when it’s all over, we are going to continue the great relationship that we’ve had for so many years. What better way to continue this relationship than to have these two teams meet on the football field for the first time this September.” Grambling will serve as the host school for a game that will actually be the first in a series called “Port City Classic,” one in which the Tigers are scheduled to play several regional schools in upcoming years.

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