Prairie View A&M Panthers football
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| First season | 1907 | ||
| Head coach |
Willie Simmons 2nd year, 14–4 (.778) |
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| Stadium | Panther Stadium at Blackshear Field | ||
| Seating capacity | 15,000 (Expandable to 30,000) | ||
| Field surface | Artificial turf | ||
| Location | Prairie View, Texas | ||
| Conference | SWAC | ||
| Division | West | ||
| All-time record | 401–459–34 (.468) | ||
| Bowl record | 24–25–1 (.490) | ||
| Claimed nat'l titles | 5 Black college football national championships | ||
| Conference titles | 11 | ||
| Colors | Purple and Gold |
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| Fight song | "Cheer for Prairie View" | ||
| Marching band | "Marching Storm" | ||
| Website | pvpanthers.com | ||
The Prairie View A&M Panthers football team is the college football team representing the Prairie View A&M University. The Panthers play in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. From 1989-1998, Prairie View A&M lost 80 straight games, the longest losing streak in NCAA history.
The first football coach at Prairie View was H.B. Hucles, who began in 1924. Before Hucles's arrival at Prairie View, the school played two games without a coach on record: a 1907 7–0 win against a team from Wylie, Texas and a 1920 7–6 loss to Tuskegee University.
Prairie View's most recognized and celebrated coach was William "Billy" Nicks. Nicks was head coach in 1945–47, assistant coach in 1948–51, and head coach again in 1952–65. His record for 17 years was 127-39-8. He led the Panthers to 8 Southwestern Athletic Conference championships and 5 black college national championships. Nicks was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999. Coach Nicks was named the American Football Coaches Association’s recipient of the Trailblazer Award. The award was presented posthumously at the AFCA Kickoff Luncheon on Monday, January 7 at the 2008 AFCA Convention in Anaheim, California.
Prairie View is recognized as the first historically Black university to create and play in a post-season bowl game. The Prairie View Bowl was played in Texas between 1928 and 1962.
The Prairie View A&M Football team won Black college football national championship titles in 1953, 1954, 1958, 1963, and 1964 and Southwestern Athletic Conference Championships SWAC in 1933, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1964. and recently in 2009. Notable football players that have achieved success in the National Football League (NFL) are National Football Hall of Fame Inductee Kenny Houston, who played for the Houston Oilers and Washington Redskins and Otis Taylor, who won a World Championship with the Kansas City Chiefs in 1969. On a small note of significance, Charlie "Choo Choo" Brackins, who played from 1952–1955, was the first HBCU alumnus to play quarterback in the NFL.
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