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Lamar University Athletics

Cardinal Hall of Honor

Vernon Glass

Vernon Glass

  • Class
  • Induction
    2019
  • Sport(s)
    Football Coach
Head coach of the Cardinals for 13 seasons.

Glass became the program's third head coach (as a four-year institution) and guided the program through the transition from NCAA independent status into the Southland Conference.

Two-time Southland Conference Coach of the Year. The Cardinals won the Southland title in its first three years as part of the league. Glass would go on to win four conference titles during his time at Lamar.

Also posted three Southland runner-up finishes and recorded eight wins in 1972 and 1974 which still stand as the single-season school record for wins in a season (as a four-year institution).

Glass is the school's all-time winningest head coach (four-year institution) with 68 career wins and has produced 47 all-conference athletes.

He also produced one All-American, one SLC Defensive Player of the Year and the school's first ever Senior Bowl invitee.
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