Grambling State University - Tiger Yearbook (Grambling, LA)

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Harris downs Panther quarterback. Robert Williams hurries a punt. Panther reaches for reception. Record Falls And So Does Prairie View The search for “Numero 324” ended in Dallas Oct. 3, 1985, as coach Eddie Robinson’s Tigers demolished Prairie View 27-7 before 36,652 fans in the Cotton Bowl. With the victory Rob became the winningest collegiate football coach of all-time, surpassing the legendary “Bear” Bryant of Alabama. A hungry band of Tigers went for the kill early. Follow- ing the opening kickoff, the Tigers galloped 77 yards in 10 plays to score on Terrell Landry’s 10-yard touchdown pass to Arthur Wells. Ardashir Nobahar drilled the extra point with 10:21 left in the first quarter. But the scoring wasn’t over as the Tigers struck again, this time on fullback Wayne Hill’s one-yard plunge with. 3:57 remaining in the initial stanza. The drive consumed 45 yards on seven plays. Nobahar again kicked the PAT. Defensive action soon took the spotlight when cornerback Jeffrey Smith intercepted Panther quarter- back Ernest Brow’s pass and raced 58 yards for a touchdown with 6:10 left in the first half. Nobahar missed the extra point. GSU fullback Clyde Dyson made it 27-0 in the third quarter when he galloped 11 yards for a TD. This time the extra point attempt was good. With 9:43 left Prairie View finally penetrated the tough Tiger defense. Brow found Charles Porter for a 37-yard touchdown reception. The PAT conversion ran the score to 27-7. The win boosted GSU’s record to 4-0 and kept the Ti- gers in second place in the Division 1-AA rankings. As the game ended, hundreds of helium balloons filled the air and Rob was mobbed by cameramen and reporters. Football 135

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Robert Goins breaks loose. James Harris logs a safety. Beat OSU 23-6 Tigers Yell ‘Pac Who?’ “Pac-Who?”’ was the Tiger chant following Grambling’s 23-6 defeat of major college foe Oregon State in Shreveport’s Independence Stadium. In addition to knocking off a Division 1-A opponent, the Tigers also presented coach Eddie Robinson with his 323rd collegiate win, tying “Bear” Bryant’s all-time colle- giate mark. “To tell the truth,” Robinson remarked, ‘the 323 doesn’t belong to me, it belongs to the players and coaches who have really done the work.” It didn’t take a fired-up band of Tigers long to put 14 first quarter points on the board. Fullback Wayne Hill tallied first on a nine-yard run and junior Ardashir Nobahar kicked the extra point. Hill scored again when he caught a 20-yard aerial from quarterback Terrell Landry. The PAT was good. OSU finally got a break near the end of the first half when Hill fumbled at the GSU 39 and Beaver linebacker Osia Lewis recovered. Jim Nielsen pumped through a 53- yard field goal as the half ended. Trailing 14-3 going into the fourth period, and with first-string quarterback Erik Wilhelm knocked out of the game with a torn ligament, Oregon State abandoned its air game and began chopping out yardage on the ground. This set up a 37-yard field goal by Nielsen with 11:04 remaining. The eight-point difference became crucial when Landry, who completed 15 of 37 passes for 164 yards and was intercepted five times, fumbled the ball over to OSU at the Tiger 19. But big James Polk blocked a 12-yard Nielsen field goal attempt to kill the scoring threat. The tide was really turned in the final five minutes when linebacker James ‘‘Hollywood’’ Harris downed the OSU signal caller in the end zone on a blitz. Following the safety, Harris recovered an Oregon State fumble which set up a four-yard Landry to Sherman Cowley touchdown pass. Tight end Robert Williams paced all receivers with six catches for 70 yards, and Dyson led GSU rushers with 41 yards on 16 attempts. With the win Grambling pushed its record to 3-0 while the Beavers fell to 2-2. The rush is on.

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Hill looks for a hole. Lie 136 Football First In 10 Years Big Win In Nashville For 10 years the Grambling Tigers had come up short in Nashville. Not since the days of Doug Williams, Sammie White and “Big Hands” Johnson had a GSU unit won in the Tennessee capital. But a decade later, the ’85 Tigers changed all that. Fullback Wayne Hill led the way by scoring on runs of 19, five and four yards, the last coming with 10:08 remaining. His gallops and a tenacious Grambling defense enabled the Louisiana squad to defeat Tennessee State 31-24 be- fore 22,000 fans in Dudley Stadium. GSU jumped off to an early lead when quarterback Terrell Landry hit Arthur Wells on a 53-yard pass four minutes into the game. Ardashir Nobahar added the extra point. He also added a 38-yard field goal with eight seconds left in the first stanza. After that, Hill took over with a 19-yard TD with 6:40 Coach Sterling advises. left in the first half, a five-yarder with 3:29 remaining in the third and the tie-breaker on a four-yarder with 10:06 left in the game. Another strong defensive performance propelled the Ti- gers. A last second interception by Robert Goins saved the victory, but that wasn’t the only outstanding play on defense. Linebacker James Harris came up with two vital third down sacks and 11 tackles while fellow linebacker Fred Collins had 18 tackles and Jeffrey Smith 15. Tennessee quarterback Gilbert Renfroe scored that school’s first TD on a three-yard scamper with 3:23 left in the first quarter. The other Tennessee scores came on a two-yard run by Marlon Johnson and a 25-yard field goal by David Hood. Those two scores came within a four- minute span opening the fourth quarter as Tenn. St. rallied from a 24-14 deficit to tie the game 24-24. Landry takes aim.