re: Most Defining Moment In LSU Sports History?

wow...I feel like such a bad fan now....

I forgot all about the skyler green catch and I was there.

I remember being so pissed when the UGA RB took a screen 90 yards to the house to take the lead

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I remember being so pissed when the UGA RB took a screen 90 yards to the house to take the lead

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It tied the game.....UGA's only offensive play the whole damn game.

god...my memory sucks.

That's right. It tied it 10-10.

I also remember their All-SEC kicker missing like 3 FGs

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Some people think it was during the NC year. I hear commentators make this mistake a lot.

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Hell, I've heard Paul Dietzel himself make this mistake!

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8. Billy Cannon's 59 punt return vs Ole Miss

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Really the only choice, imo. LSU football became a different animal in that era, most singularly due to the efforts of Billy Cannon. And obviously that play was the defining moment of Cannon's LSU career. There is a reason that one play -- grainy, shitty-quality old black and white footage and all -- is still shown more often than any other moment in LSU sports history.

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I would like to present my defining moments in pictures.

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Wow, how can u have UGA game ahead of OU game??

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Wow, how can u have UGA game ahead of OU game??

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Mostly because that one play won the game and put LSU football in the major national spotlight. That was our first real big game of the year, college gameday was there, record crowd, all the eyes in the nation were on LSU. and we came up big that day. to me that play represents the ascending of LSU to a national powerhouse.

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1. Billy Cannon halfback pass TD to win 1958 National Championship

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Had nothing to do with the NC. At that time, NC's were named before the bowls. All that play did was win the Sugar Bowl.

I don't think there is any particular "defining moment" in Tiger sports.

However, the event(s) which have had the most far-reaching effects were Dietzel's innovation of the 3 team substitution system, Alvin Roy and Billy Cannon's weight training program and Cannon's subsequent 89 yd. pr and Heisman.

Those three occurences taken together completely changed the face of college fb.

At the time Dietzel implemented his system, players were allowed to come in only once a quarter, thus forcing the best players to play both ways for longer periods of time. When he put in the system, it allowed for more liberal substitution and eventually led to most of the sub rules we have today.

Before BC and AR began weight training, most, if not all, colleges and even the pros had no program at all. Not even year round training as now. BC was the first player to ever really use weight and conditioning training and it was partially this training that led to his being able to make the punt return, breaking tackles and using his speed.

Without these innovations, LSU would not have that '58 skin on its wall. And as a result, college fb teams all over the land began to change the way they practiced and trained. It eventually spread to the pros as well.

Also a little known fact is that Dr. Marty Broussard, LSU's long time trainer, is actually the inventor of "Gatorade". He developed it and shared it with his fellow trainers and the sorry bastards from Gainesville profited from it. Supposedly, Dr. Broussard's mixture didn't taste very good and the Fla. trainers developed it to what it later became.

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Skip Bertman

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That maybe one of the best answers on the thread.

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1. 2 football NC's in four years

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since its 2 titles in 5 years, does your list change?