Team: Arkansas State Indians
Stadium: Indian Stadium
Conference: Sun Belt
Sport: College Football
Background: Arkansas State University
(ASU) is the second largest university in the State
of Arkansas located atop Crowley's Ridge at Jonesboro,
Arkansas.
Founded in 1909 as an agricultural training school,
Arkansas State has grown into a university with over
16,000 students and 6 satellite facilities serving Arkansas
towns and cities.
Degree programs are offered in agriculture, business,
communications, education, engineering, fine arts, humanities
and social sciences, nursing and health professions,
sciences and mathematics, and military science.
The school is affiliated with the Sun Belt Conference
in sports and maintains NCAA I-A Division programs in
the major sports. The school sports teams are nicknamed
"Indians" in honor of the Osage tribe of Native
Americans that inhabited the area until the 19th century.
External links:
Arkansas State University (
http://www.astate.edu)
Dean B. Ellis Library (
http://www.library.astate.edu)