Off week topic- Tiger schedule history

I'm about the same age as you, so I can't really remember the 50's. From looking at the '59 schedule, I only see the opener against Rice and the last game against Tulane as day games in Baton Rouge. Baylor was a day game in Shreveport. Rice was a tv game and Tulane-LSU was often an afternoon game (both in BR and in New Orleans) at that time. Coming late in the season, perhaps the heat was not such a factor.

There were many other Southern schools that liked to play at night. Certainly Tulane had many, if not most, of their games at night and I remember listening to night away broadcasts from Rice, Kentucky, Miami and Miss. St during the 60's. Ole Miss preferred the day games (and I remember them bragging that we hadn't beat them "in broad daylight since Roosevelt was president" or something along those lines).