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re: LSU Football Punter from 1948
Posted on 11/18/22 at 10:44 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
Posted on 11/18/22 at 10:44 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
Tommy Davis, Shreveport guy, punted at LSU and in the pros but would have been on the '58 champion team. Little late but last punter from Shreveport area who played at LSU that I can recall.
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Posted on 11/18/22 at 11:21 pm to Lester Earl
quote:You were 12-13 years old when you would argue against firing Smoke Laval and threaten to meet and fight people at N.O. Hornets games?
Brether, I was not born until the 90s
Posted on 11/18/22 at 11:54 pm to GoulaTiger
I think he was a player who also played RB named Ray Coats. Not sure. I was there in ‘48.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 11:59 pm to eltigre2
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I think he was a player who also played RB named Ray Coats. Not sure. I was there in ‘48.
Ray Coates was a rookie with the NYG in '48
Posted on 11/19/22 at 4:27 am to eltigre2
quote:how old are you, 94?
. I was there in ‘48.
Posted on 11/19/22 at 9:38 am to Jake88
Yes, and you are a Doctor
Posted on 11/19/22 at 10:23 am to eltigre2
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I was there in ‘48.
90 years old and still on Tigerdroppings. That’s awesome. Chicken should give you some kind of award.
Posted on 11/20/22 at 1:15 pm to Amadeo
This same Ray Coates was my freshman Algebra teacher at Jesuit in 1972.
He was the head football coach at Catholic High School in Baton Rouge from 1953 to 1958, returned to his alma mater Jesuit High School in 1959 as an assistant coach and math teacher, and later became head coach from 1966 to 1970. In five years as the Blue Jays head coach, Coates posted a 40-12 record and earned three trips to the state playoffs as well as a District V-AAA title in 1970.
He was the head football coach at Catholic High School in Baton Rouge from 1953 to 1958, returned to his alma mater Jesuit High School in 1959 as an assistant coach and math teacher, and later became head coach from 1966 to 1970. In five years as the Blue Jays head coach, Coates posted a 40-12 record and earned three trips to the state playoffs as well as a District V-AAA title in 1970.
Posted on 11/20/22 at 4:08 pm to LSU Jock 1970
Tommy Davis was the man. He punted the ball almost every time into a coffin corner. I saw him playing bowling one nite in Shreveport when I was interning at Confederate Memorial Medical Center 1959-60.
Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:10 pm to GoulaTiger
Joe Nagata of Eunice my hometown was a punter while I was there during the '47 season as freshman. Visited him frequently in "G" barracks where the football players lived. He graduated in '51. Also played running back.
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