re: A history of Tiger Stadium field designs / logos

I could go for this but what would it look like with both tiger eyes?

FYI. The eye of the tiger remained at midfield until DiNardo's first year in 1995.

I think the block letters were also in the end zone.

Some of my recollections:

I remember watching the 83 Bama game on TV, and the eye was on the field then. Odd game: Day game, LSU in purple, Bama wearing white helmets. It may have been the first game the band wore the gold coats, but I could be mistaken.

In the film of the 1978 Ole Miss game previously posted here, the blocks in the middle of the field had a stylized "LSU" in gold and "Ole Miss" in red. Hard to see, but definitely there.

Each coaching tenure since Arsparger had created a change in the field:
Arnsparger followed the design from the last Stovall year, with the eye and block LSU in the end zones. At it's origin, the eye was centered on the 47.5, so that the eye itself was not on a main yardline. Arnsparger also moved the field about 11 feet to the south, centering it on the playing field and replacing the H style goal posts with a single post (probably to eliminate the post being on the end line). The old West Upper deck was sighted in on the field lines, so it actually sat 11 feet off center (if you look closely at pictures of the old deck, you can see there are more covered seats on the north of the press box than there are on the south.

Under Archer, the field changed almost every year. In 87, the Gatsby font was used because of the filming of "Everybody's All American". Whenever they were doing filming during a game (Kentucky and Miss State come to mind), the LSU in the midfield state outline was covered up because the school in the movie was "Louisiana University". This was also accomplished in the band by putting felt stickers over the "S" on the sleeves, prompting some in the band to cheer "L FELT U" during some cheers. In 88, no midfield logo was used and the LSU and diamond pattern from the Earthquake game was the standard. In 89, the diamonds were removed.

The Hallman years brought back the Arnsparger field, with the exception of 93, when the Centennial logo was put at midfield. Hallman brought back the "H" goalposts, now with posts bent to set-back from the end line, for the "100 years of LSU Football" commemoration during the Tulane game.

The Dinardo years brought the plain "LSU" at midfield and "TIGERS" in the end zones, as pictured above.

The Saban years brought back the Arnsparger scheme as well. At this time, the eye was moved to center on the 50.

The Miles years have the Geaux font replacing the block font in the end zones. Additionally, the background colors are swapped. Previously, the North end zone was gold on purple; now it is purple on gold.

At least that's the way I remember it.

GEAUX TIGERS

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Unacceptable

I have a photo in my office that has aerial shots from 1927 to 2004.

One when the stands were just in the sidelines. Then one when it looked like a horseshoe, then fully enclosed bowl and then with the East and West uppers.


I'll see if I can take a shot of it tomorrow and post it for you guys. It's pretty cool.

Here's a pretty cool pic I have in my office.

Sorry for the shitty frame job. I did it myself.

I was always a fan of the block end zone letters as well. Joe Alleva spoke in one of my marketing classes back around 2006 and I asked why they did away with them - His explanation was that the smaller geaux font could be seen better on TV and consistency was good for promoting our brand.

I just found this in an old box of stuff I had in a closet. I don't ever remember Toonces at mid-field. Photoshop? I'm thinking so especially the way it's rotated 90 degrees than usual.

the block letters would look right if there were more than 3 of them... L S U is too short to cover a whole endzone.

maybe leave purple space on each side or better yet use the Geaux font like we do now