Does anyone recall the 1971 game in Madison? 38-28 Tiger win over Wisconsin....

Man, I was thinking about that game today at work.
I was 9 y/o
What was the running back for Whiskys nickname, the Road Runner???

Loads of insults that day. Some "Y" woman going in our gate exclaimed in a loud voice, "OH NO, we're going to have sit over here with these Southerners!" I replied, cheer up some of it may rub off on you. Other comments during game that had nothing to do with football. The program had a banged up tiger with 'LSWHO" on it. It definitely was nat a "glad to see youse guys" atmosphere.

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....in which their student body threw whiskey bottles at our players and called us racist pigs. I thought someone might bring it up two years ago when we played them but now that we're the away team I was wondering if anyone will remember.

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I do. and I think I remember a bottle hitting one of our cheerleaders. but I KNOW I remember the racist chants and the mob like atmosphere. I was not there but heard it described by those that were.

things sure have changed. in those days yanks hated southerners and expressed it openly. being a southerner was bad in their eyes.

I was at that game. I remember it started snowing.

Paul Lyons was LSU QB?

Yes. Woman next to me nudged her husband and whispered like she'd been raised next to the sawmill," Loooook, they're all white. Funny, years later, we're mostly black, they still have two. No intent about our players or race..just a note on their Wisc. hipocriscy

I was a Jr. At LSU and went to that game with 3pals. It was nasty before the game started and our players got hit with bottles, etc as they ran onto the field. But nothing happened after that and many folks were nice to us as we left. UW band refused to honor us in pre game as they always did in those days. LSU stopped honoring visiting teams the very next year (by playing their fight song in pre game).

Wisconsin records leading up to 1971:
1965 2-7-1
1966 3-6-1
1967 0-9-1
1968 0-10
1969 3-7 (lost first three games to go 23 games without a win.)
1970 4-5-1
started 1971 at 1-0-1

So the team had gone 13-44-5 before meeting LSU. It was a horrible program. Finally had a winning year in 1974. The name of the game was to go to Camp Randall and have fun drinking and passing bodies. If you knew the final score, you didn't have fun.

The crowds are much more tightly controlled now than back in the day. No doubt they will be pretty decent in Green Bay. The ES-FU chant being about the worst, and I doubt too many students will go to Green Bay so even if it starts, you probably won't hear it.

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That had its origins back in the 70's when the freshmen sat in section O and older students would chant O sucks.

Anything to ease the boredom of another blow out loss.

Paul Lyons was the man. Great game running and throwing.

I was stationed in Germany but the student body actions at Camp Randall certainly rated a bit of a headline in the sports section of Stars and Stripes...