Year: | 1964 |
Team: | Edward Waters Tigers |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Southeastern Athletic Conference |
Short Conf: | SEAC |
Record: | 9–0 |
Conf Record: | 2–0 |
Head Coach: | Clifford Paul |
Hc Year: | 3rd |
Champion: | SEAC champion |
The 1964 Edward Waters Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Edward Waters College (EWC), a historically-black college with 1,200 students in Jacksonville, Florida, as a member of the Southeastern Athletic Conference (SEAC) during the 1964 NAIA football season. In their third and final year under head coach Clifford Paul, the Tigers compiled a perfect 9–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 498 to 20.[1] The team shut out six of nine opponents and set a single-game school scoring record with 142 points against the . The Tigers were described as "the Cinderella team of Negro football in 1964"[1]
Running back Jim "Cannonball" Butler starred for the 1964 team and became is the only EWC alumnus to play in the National Football League (NFL).[2]