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Off season topic- 1970's LSU football let's hear about it
Posted on 7/29/23 at 11:55 am
Posted on 7/29/23 at 11:55 am
Right before my memories of LSU football began. People that saw Bert Jones, Carlous Carson, etc. I know Coach Charlie Mac was the coach the whole decade and that Bo Rein was set to become coach until the plane crash. Hell i just read that they never found his body. What were the expectations back then. I love hearing stories from older tiger fans about LSU football.
This post was edited on 8/1/23 at 7:12 am
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Posted on 7/29/23 at 11:56 am to FLBooGoTigs1
Something about dalton hilliards thighs
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:02 pm to geauxnavybeatbama
WRONG.
1980's
Dalton was my baw growing up.
Etc. I always hear about AJ Duhe, Richardson (LB), Leonard Marshall
1980's
Dalton was my baw growing up.
Etc. I always hear about AJ Duhe, Richardson (LB), Leonard Marshall
This post was edited on 7/29/23 at 12:04 pm
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:03 pm to geauxnavybeatbama
*hear
Hilliard was 82-85
Hilliard was 82-85
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:21 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
Tiger Stadium with 68,000 seats was louder and more intimidating then than it is today.
Back then, you didn't have the massive number of channels that you do now, so a TV game (especially a night game) was a huge deal.
Andy Hamilton was a stud at WR. He could take your best DB and make him look like a clown.
Charles Alexander had fantastic 1977 and 1978 seasons. Against Oregon in 1977, Alexander rushed for 237 yards and scored 4 TDs. The Tigers lost the 1977 season opener at Indiana, who were coached by Lee Corso. (Yep, that guy.) They would go on to play in the Sun Bowl against Stanford (coached by Bill Walsh) losing 24-14. Alexander rushed 31 times for 197 yards. He would rush for 1,686 yards in 1978.
Back then, the Tigers played Tulane annually, usually on the last game of the regular season. The 1973 Tulane - LSU game at old Tulane Stadium drew nearly 87,000 fans, the largest crowd to see a Tulane - LSU game at the time. Back then, the teams played for the Tulane / LSU rag. You also had the wheelbarrow race in uptown New Orleans after each game, where fans of the winning team would ride in wheelbarrows pushed by fans of the losing team.
Back then, you didn't have the massive number of channels that you do now, so a TV game (especially a night game) was a huge deal.
Andy Hamilton was a stud at WR. He could take your best DB and make him look like a clown.
Charles Alexander had fantastic 1977 and 1978 seasons. Against Oregon in 1977, Alexander rushed for 237 yards and scored 4 TDs. The Tigers lost the 1977 season opener at Indiana, who were coached by Lee Corso. (Yep, that guy.) They would go on to play in the Sun Bowl against Stanford (coached by Bill Walsh) losing 24-14. Alexander rushed 31 times for 197 yards. He would rush for 1,686 yards in 1978.
Back then, the Tigers played Tulane annually, usually on the last game of the regular season. The 1973 Tulane - LSU game at old Tulane Stadium drew nearly 87,000 fans, the largest crowd to see a Tulane - LSU game at the time. Back then, the teams played for the Tulane / LSU rag. You also had the wheelbarrow race in uptown New Orleans after each game, where fans of the winning team would ride in wheelbarrows pushed by fans of the losing team.
This post was edited on 7/29/23 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:35 pm to EastBankTiger
Listened to many tiger games against Tulane on the radio early 80's. I still remember that WR Zeno guy from Tulane. Yes for the younger cats we listened to LSU football on the radio. 
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:40 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
We didn’t have National Championships back then but we still loved our Tigers and were proud and happy fans!
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:43 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
Jim Hawthorne 
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:46 pm to Quatrepot
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We didn’t have National Championships back then but we still loved our Tigers and were proud and happy fans!
This is the biggest difference I see. Spoiled fans of today are ready to fire everyone if LSU doesn’t win the national championship every year.
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:49 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
1979 USC game. I wish many of the younger people here understood what that game was really like.
Still my greatest game. And we lost.
Still my greatest game. And we lost.
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:52 pm to High C
quote:Yeah 8-4 wasn’t so bad back then.
This is the biggest difference I see. Spoiled fans of today are ready to fire everyone if LSU doesn’t win the national championship every year.
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:52 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
8-3 and the Sun Bowl most years.
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:56 pm to EastBankTiger
quote:
Tiger Stadium with 68,000 seats was louder and more intimidating then than it is today.
That's what I miss the most. It was the intense atmosphere of fan and student noise volume, combined with an unencumbered GBFTL. Old School LSU football with rabid fans in the Coliseum that were actually there to watch the Tigers play.
Tailgating was just a fun warm-up, but was secondary to the actual game.
Many of these "Old School Rabid LSU Fans" have been priced out and the Coliseum is now predominately filled with Corporate Season Ticket Give-A-Ways, (The ones with no connection to the University and the ones that leave early) "See and Be Seen/Wine & Cheese" attention whore types and a new breed of spoiled rotten students with a sense of entitlement.
There's still a few "Old School Rabids" in the crowd, but not enough, so you only get the "Old School Atmosphere" once every other season in the Alabama game or some other big SEC game that makes it to the Nocturnal hours.....
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:57 pm to Quatrepot
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Jim Hawthorne
no, John Ferguson was the Voice of the Tigers in the 1970s.
In 1961, Ferguson returned to LSU and broadcast men's basketball and football games. For a time, Ferguson was also the play-by-play commentator for the New Orleans Saints. The 1983 season was his last year as radio broadcaster at LSU. In 1984, Ferguson transitioned over to TigerVision, LSU's pay-per-view television network for football games and Jim Hawthorne took over as radio broadcaster for LSU baseball, men's basketball and football. Also in 1984, Ferguson was awarded the Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association. He retired in 1987.
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:58 pm to nclsutiger
I still remember how excited I was for the 1978 Liberty Bowl against Missouri.
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:58 pm to Quatrepot
quote:John Ferguson
Jim Hawthorne
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:59 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
I don't know if the building is still there (the place closed many years back) but Airline Motors in Laplace was the go to stop for New Orleans area Tigers going to or from the game. Sometimes, we went there even if we didn't go to the game because it was so much fun.
Tiger teams in the 70's were sometimes good, sometimes bad and were never serious NC contenders. Back then, Bama, USC, Penn State, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Michigan and Ohio State were the big dogs.
This is from 1982 but if you want to get a good look at Tigers fans from the 70's era, WYES produced Men of LSU. RIP to Mr. Jeremiah Hynes from my old Homedale Inn hangout days. LINK
Tiger teams in the 70's were sometimes good, sometimes bad and were never serious NC contenders. Back then, Bama, USC, Penn State, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Michigan and Ohio State were the big dogs.
This is from 1982 but if you want to get a good look at Tigers fans from the 70's era, WYES produced Men of LSU. RIP to Mr. Jeremiah Hynes from my old Homedale Inn hangout days.
LINKThis post was edited on 7/29/23 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 7/29/23 at 1:09 pm to semjase
quote:
Tiger Stadium with 68,000 seats was louder and more intimidating then than it is today.
Truer words have never been spoken. As a freshman in Tiger Band in 1972, I experienced it firsthand. The Ole Miss game was the first time Tiger Stadium broke 70,000 in attendance. It was sold out for paying fans-the difference was made by the students who showed up. As we got into position for pregame in the North end zone, I looked up at the student section and saw not only was every seat taken, but the overflow students were sitting on the steps between sections-there was nowhere to walk!
We marched into position for Pregame, and as the team ran out onto the field, the earth below me shook. As I was playing my trumpet, I realized I couldn't hear myself playing. The sound was so loud it hurt my ears. I decided to try something to see how loud it was. I pulled my trumpet away from my mouth and screamed as loudly as I could-nothing! I couldn't hear myself scream!
As great as that was, the ending of that game was even better. Bert Jones to Brad Davis in the southeast end zone!
Posted on 7/29/23 at 1:16 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
Early 70's very solid teams; won SEC 1970 but the stupid L to ATM where CB slipped and they won on last play, then the crazy/classic 0-3 L at ND and then close L to MNC Nebraska in Orange Bowl.
71 another good team but stupid L to OM, Bama
72 another 9 W team but L to Bama then Tenn in Bluebonnet
73 again 9 W team but the inexplicable collapse to end season with L Bama (on a Thanksgiving night game in TS), Tulane (1st in 25 years-UGH!) then P State in O Bowl.
Of course then my time there; 74-75 on was pretty much sucko then 76 the "good" tie with Nebraska at TS for a 7W season and 77 the fun Ensminger to Carlos Carson game vs Rice and destroyed Gators for 8W and also 78 .
79 I had left but the classic USC L and Bama L both #1 teams.
So was fun mostly and as stated TS was seemingly louder with the 68,000 until the old upper deck in 78 but never could get over that hump to the blue blood teams Bama, USC, Ohio St ND and so forth but we did have fun!
Not as much as 2019 though!
o
71 another good team but stupid L to OM, Bama
72 another 9 W team but L to Bama then Tenn in Bluebonnet
73 again 9 W team but the inexplicable collapse to end season with L Bama (on a Thanksgiving night game in TS), Tulane (1st in 25 years-UGH!) then P State in O Bowl.
Of course then my time there; 74-75 on was pretty much sucko then 76 the "good" tie with Nebraska at TS for a 7W season and 77 the fun Ensminger to Carlos Carson game vs Rice and destroyed Gators for 8W and also 78 .
79 I had left but the classic USC L and Bama L both #1 teams.
So was fun mostly and as stated TS was seemingly louder with the 68,000 until the old upper deck in 78 but never could get over that hump to the blue blood teams Bama, USC, Ohio St ND and so forth but we did have fun!
Not as much as 2019 though!
o
Posted on 7/29/23 at 1:22 pm to jimlsu1
quote:
1979 USC game. I wish many of the younger people here understood what that game was really like. Still my greatest game. And we lost.
Same here. My freshman year, and like nothing I had ever imagined.
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