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The 2025 East Texas A&M Lions football team represents East Texas A&M University as a member of the Southland Conference during the 2025 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Lions are led by third-year head coach Clint Dolezel and play their home games at the Ernest Hawkins Field at Memorial Stadium in Commerce, Texas .
This is the first season for the university under its then-current identity. On November 7, 2024, after the Lions had played their first two games of the 2024–25 season, [2] the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents approved the proposed change of the university's name to East Texas A&M University. The name change took effect immediately.
On December 16, 2017, East Texas A&M (then A&M-Commerce) won its first NCAA Division II national championship, by defeating West Florida, 37–27, in Kansas City. The Lions recorded a perfect record in 1934, won the NAIA National Championship in 1972 , and have amassed a total of 24 LSC conference championships since joining as a charter member ...
Back in the 1920s East Texas A&M had a baseball team that competed in the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and won several titles. The baseball team played against the Chicago White Sox in 1921 for spring training but lost 12 to 3. By 1930, the university discontinued the baseball program due to financial issues.
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East Texas A&M University (ETAMU; formerly Texas A&M University–Commerce) is a public university in Commerce, Texas, United States. With an enrollment of over 12,000 students as of fall 2017, the university is the third-largest institution in the Texas A&M University System . [ 3 ]
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Shelby Metcalf was a member of the East Texas State Lions Men's team that won the NAIA 1954-55 National Championship, after his playing career he went on to coach at Texas A&M for 27 seasons. [17] Mike Miller a former basketball player at East Texas State who went on to become the head coach at Texas State and Eastern Illinois.