Tulane Green Wave football

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Tulane Green Wave football
rivalry)
Ole Miss (rivalry)
Consensus All-Americans5
ColorsOlive green and sky blue[3]
   
Fight songThe Olive and the Blue
MascotRiptide
Marching bandTulane University Marching Band
OutfitterNike
WebsiteTulaneGreenWave.com

The Tulane Green Wave football team represents

Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the American Athletic Conference (The American). The football team is coached by Jon Sumrall, and plays its home games in Yulman Stadium on its campus in Uptown New Orleans.[4]

History

Conference affiliations

Tulane has been both an independent and affiliated with multiple conferences.[5]: 183–210 

Championships

Conference championships

Tulane has won 10 conference football championships in five different conferences. As of 2024, Tulane's three

Southeastern Conference titles are more than seven current members of the SEC: Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas A&M, or Vanderbilt.[13]

Season Conference Coach Overall Record Conf. Record
1920 SIAA Clark Shaughnessy 6–2–1 5–0
1925 SoCon 9–0–1 5–0
1929 Bernie Bierman 9–0 6–0
1930 8–1 5–0
1931 11–1 8–0
1934 SEC Ted Cox 10–1 8–0
1939 Red Dawson 8–1–1 5–0
1949
Henry E. Frnka
7–2–1 5–1
1998 C-USA Tommy Bowden 12–0 6–0
2022 AAC Willie Fritz 12–2 7–1

† Co-championship

Division championships

Season Division Coach Opponent CG result
2018 AAC West Willie Fritz N/A lost tiebreaker to Memphis

† Co-championship

Bowl games

Tulane has played in 16 official bowl games, with the Green Wave garnering a record of 7–9. Tulane also played in the Bacardi Bowl in 1909, playing the Havana Athletic Club, losing 11–0. This was not sanctioned by the NCAA, and thus the Green Wave do not recognize the bowl appearance. Notably, Tulane's first bowl win was the inaugural Sugar Bowl, played in their home stadium.

Season Coach Bowl Opponent Result
1931 Bernie Bierman Rose Bowl USC L 12–21
1934 Ted Cox Sugar Bowl Temple W 20–14
1939 Red Dawson Sugar Bowl Texas A&M L 13–14
1970 Jim Pittman Liberty Bowl Colorado W 17–3
1973 Bennie Ellender Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl Houston L 7–47
1979 Larry Smith Liberty Bowl Penn State L 6–9
1980 Vince Gibson Hall of Fame Classic Arkansas L 15–34
1987 Mack Brown Independence Bowl Washington L 12–24
1998 Chris Scelfo Liberty Bowl BYU W 41–27
2002 Hawaii Bowl Hawaii W 36–28
2013 Curtis Johnson New Orleans Bowl Louisiana–Lafayette L 21–24
2018 Willie Fritz Cure Bowl Louisiana–Lafayette W 41–24
2019
Armed Forces Bowl
Southern Miss W 30–13
2020 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Nevada L 27–38
2022 Cotton Bowl USC W 46–45
2023 Slade Nagle[A 1] Military Bowl Virginia Tech L 20–41

Head coaches

The team has had 39 head coaches and 1 interim head coach since Tulane began playing football in 1893. 13 coaches have led the program to postseason bowl games:

Henry E. Frnka
(1 SEC), Tommy Bowden (1 C-USA), and Willie Fritz (1 American).

Clark Shaughnessy and Chris Scelfo were tied as the all-time leaders in games coached at Tulane with 94 each until Willie Fritz passed them in 2023. Clark Shaughnessy is the all-time leader in years coached (11) and total wins (59). The current head coach, Willie Fritz, has the second-most program wins (43) of all time.

Home stadium

Yulman Stadium Student Section

The Green Wave have played their home games in Yulman Stadium on its Uptown campus since 2014. Prior to that season, Tulane played home games in the Caesars Superdome for nearly 40 seasons, and in its previous on-campus venue, the third Tulane Stadium, before that. The Green Wave have also played at the second Tulane Stadium, first Tulane Stadium, Athletic Park and Crescent City Base Ball Park.[15]

Because Tulane's campus is landlocked within Uptown New Orleans, Yulman is tightly fit within its athletic footprint and directly abutting the surrounding neighborhood. The stadium has a capacity of 30,000 spectators and was constructed with the ability to expand.[16][17]

Rivalries

LSU

The 13th Battle for the Flag, a 0–0 tie in New Orleans on November 26, 1914.

Tulane's biggest and oldest rival was LSU. It began in 1893 with a 34–0 Green Wave victory over the Tigers. The teams stopped meeting every year in the Battle for the Rag in 2009. The rivalry became less competitive after 1948, until Tulane broke a 25-game non-winning streak in 1973 with a 14–0 victory in front of a Tulane Stadium record crowd of 86,598 in the final installment of the long-time rivalry played on Tulane's campus. Between 1979 and 1982, Tulane won three out of four games against the Tigers; the 1982 win was the last win to date. The two schools stopped playing annually after the 1994 game; however, they have met six times (1996, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009) since. As a condition of the broken series agreement made in 2006, a potential future game will be played in a future season in New Orleans.[18] LSU leads the series 69–23–7 through the 2019 season.[19]

Southern Miss

Known as the Battle for the Bell, Tulane's rivalry with Southern Miss was played yearly from 1979 until 2006 and alternates sites between New Orleans and Hattiesburg, Mississippi. As a result of Conference USA splitting into East and West divisions in 2005, the game was played two out of every four years.[20] The rivalry was put on hold as a result of Tulane's move to The American Athletic Conference in 2014, but in 2017 the schools announced new games slated for 2022, 2023, 2026, and 2027.[21] Southern Miss leads the series 24–9 through the 2022 season.[19]

Auburn

Tulane leads the series with Auburn 17–15–6 through the 2019 season.[22]

Ole Miss

Ole Miss leads the series 43–28 through the 2023 season.[23]

Culture

Marching band

TUMB and Shockwave perform at halftime in Yulman Stadium

The Tulane University Marching Band (TUMB) was founded in 1920 as a military band. It dissolved shortly after the team's move to the Superdome in the 1970s and did not formally return until 2006.

Mardi Gras
parades each spring.

Mascot

Riptide the Pelican debuted in 1998 with the re-branding of Tulane athletics. Prior to that, the school used an angry wave nicknamed "Gumby" by fans, and before that a John Chase creation named "Greenie."[24]

Individual honors

All-Americans

Tulane has had 19 players named to first-team All-America teams. Of those 19, five were consensus selections, with one being a unanimous selection.[25]

All-time record vs. AAC teams

Records current as of January 2, 2023 [26]

Opponent Games W L T Percentage Streak First
Army 23 13 9 1 .587 Won 4 1957
Charlotte 0 0 0 0 None None
East Carolina 20 8 12 0 .400 Won 2 1991
Florida Atlantic 2 1 1 0 .500 Won 1 2013
Memphis 40 15 24 1 .388 Won 2 1954
Navy 25 12 12 1 .500 Lost 2 1949
North Texas 2 2 0 0 1.000 Won 2 2013
Rice 37 16 20 1 .446 Won 1 1916
South Florida 4 3 1 0 .750 Won 3 2017
Temple 6 2 4 0 .333 Won 1 1935
Tulsa 20 7 13 0 .350 Won 2 1968
UAB 12 6 6 0 .500 Won 1 1999
UTSA 2 1 1 0 .500 Won 1 2013
Totals 193 86 103 4 .456

Future opponents

Non-conference

Announced schedules as of January 12, 2023.[27][28]

2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032
Southeastern Louisiana Northwestern at Duke Louisiana-Lafayette at Iowa State Iowa State at Mississippi State Mississippi State
Kansas State at South Alabama South Alabama at Southern Miss
at Oklahoma Duke at Kansas State at Wake Forest
at Louisiana-Lafayette at Ole Miss Southern Miss

See also

References

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  2. ^ "SIAA Conference Champions". CFDataWarehouse.com. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
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  4. Times-Picayune
    . Retrieved 2011-12-09.
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  13. ^ "Football SEC Champions". Southeastern Conference. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
  14. ^ "Player Bio: Chris Scelfo". Tulane University Athletics. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  15. ^ "The History of Tulane Stadium(s)". bestofneworleans.com. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  16. ^ "Tulane University Yulman Stadium". Woodward Design+Build. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
  17. ^ Christopher Dabe (September 4, 2014). "High demand for Tulane football tickets could lead to Yulman expansion, AD Rick Dickson says". nola.com. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
  18. ^ "LSU, Tulane in discussions to play each other in football in 2013". nola.com. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
  19. ^ a b "Winsipedia - Tulane Green Wave vs. LSU Tigers football series history".
  20. ^ Richie Weaver (2010-11-05). "Football to "Battle for the Bell" Saturday vs. C-USA Rivals Southern Miss". TulaneGreenWave.com. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  21. ^ "Football Announces Four-Game Series with Southern Miss". TulaneGreenWave.com. April 13, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  22. ^ "Winsipedia - Tulane Green Wave vs. Auburn Tigers football series history".
  23. ^ "Winsipedia - Tulane Green Wave vs. Ole Miss Rebels football series history".
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  25. ^ "Tulane Green Wave All-America Selections". Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
  26. ^ "Tulane Green Wave football all-time record, wins, and statistics". Winsipedia.com. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
  27. ^ "Tulane Green Wave Football Future Schedules". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved 1 Nov 2022.
  28. ^ "Fritz: Nicholls to round out 2023 Tulane football schedule". crescentcitysports.com. 5 January 2023. Retrieved 12 Jan 2023.

Notes

  1. ^ Nagle was named interim head coach for the team's bowl game following Willie Fritz's departure to Houston.

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