SOUTHEAST TEXAS RECORD

Recent News About Southland Conference

• Provost Umphrey Stadium will be home to revived Lamar football team

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Tuesday, Nov 11, 2008 @ 5:38am

  Walter Umphrey, left, with Lamar University President James Simmons at the naming of the Provost Umphrey Stadium. Beaumont attorney Walter Umprhey's name keeps popping up all over Texas, and not just in the courtroom. When the Lamar University football team returns to the gridiron two years from now it will be in the newly named Provost Umphrey Stadium.

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• Go Big Red! LU students are ready for some football

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Thursday, Jan 31, 2008 @ 5:39am

  The votes are in: Lamar students want the Cardinal football program returned to the university and are willing to pay for it.

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