Tampa Spartans football

Tampa Spartans football
First season1933
Last season1974
StadiumPlant Field (1933–1936)
Phillips Field (1937–1966)
Tampa Stadium (1967–1974)
LocationTampa, Florida
ConferenceNAIA (1933–1970)
NCAA D-I Ind. (1971–1974)
All-time record201–160–12 (.555)
Bowl record3–0 (1.000)
ColorsBlack, red, and gold[1]
     

The Tampa Spartans football program was an intercollegiate American football team for the University of Tampa (UT) located in Tampa, Florida, that began play in 1933. The program competed against other small college programs in the forerunner of today's NCAA Division II for almost forty years before moving to the top level of NCAA Division I as an independent in 1971. Successfully competing against top college programs as a much smaller school put an enormous strain on the university's finances, and the school decided to discontinue football after the 1974 season.[2]

  1. ^ University of Tampa Brand Guidelines (PDF). Retrieved April 1, 2017.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference reunion was invoked but never defined (see the help page).