re: Chinese Bandits?

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The cartoon strip was Terry and the Pirates. An American guy named Terry Lee went to China looking for adventure and fortune. Along the way, he had to fight pirates, bandits, and various villains. Supposedly, Coach Deitzel was looking for a name for the defense, and came up with Chinese Bandits cuz it was the most bad-assed group he could think of.

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Anyone got pics of that comic strip?

Here is an interesting update for this answer to go along with everything else. I was just looking though my Life Magazine from 1959 with the article on the Chinese bandits and also billy and dietzel. Here is the exact article.

" "Chinese bandits are the meanest, most vicious characters in the world," Louisiana State football coach Paul Dietzel told his thrid stringers last season. "From now on that's what you'll be called." Dietzel was using an old trick. By giving his least talented athletes an identity all their own, he hoped they would play over their heads. The trick worked. Specializing in defense, the Chinese Bandits began to tackle like a gang of hopped-up cutthroats, pulled off impregnable goal-line stands and helped make L.S.U the top team in the country last year.
This year the Bandits are back, meaner than ever. But no one suggests they are third stringers anymore. Being a Bandit at L.S.U. has become even more of an honor than making te starting lineup. Whenever they take the field the cheering section tosses collie hats in the air. An oriental gong is sounded and the stadium at Baton Rouge rocks with a Chinese chant. So far the only Southerners who have not gone wild over the Bandits are the players who have to face them. They usually greet them with sarcastic cracks. But the Bandits have their own form of medicine for that. "We hit em' a couple of times pretty good," one Bandit explains, "and after that they dont make a peep for the rest of the game."

Hows that for an original answer. lol

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we tailgated with a Bandit last Saturday

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Who was that, Hart?