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What Is The Origin Of LSU's "Tigers" Nickname?
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:42 am
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:42 am
Is it based off a Confederate Civil War regiment?
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Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:43 am to Toddy
Yes it is. LSU used to be a military school hence the name "the ole war skule."
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:43 am to Toddy
basically. why?
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:44 am to Toddy
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Is it based off a Confederate Civil War regiment?
Yes. They were all from LA and were to have fought like tigers.
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:44 am to Toddy
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Is it based off a Confederate Civil War regiment?
yep
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:45 am to Toddy
"Fighting Tigers" was the name of a bad arse group of men in the Civil War. The difference is we went with a real tiger as our mascot, not some guy dressed as a Civil War general. 
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:45 am to drexyl
Ole Miss is getting criticized for having the Rebels as a mascot because it's "offensive". 
I hate these politically correct assholes. Ole Miss was always and forever should be the Rebels. But I'm still a Tiger....sooooo see you in a few weeks Ole Piss.
I hate these politically correct assholes. Ole Miss was always and forever should be the Rebels. But I'm still a Tiger....sooooo see you in a few weeks Ole Piss.
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:45 am to Toddy
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Way back in the fall of 1896, coach A.W. Jeardeau's LSU football team posted a perfect 6-0-0 record, and it was in that pigskin campaign that LSU first adopted its nickname, Tigers.
'Tigers' seemed a logical choice since most collegiate teams in that year bore the names of ferocious animals, but the underlying reason why LSU chose 'Tigers' dates back to the Civil War.
According to Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., PhD. and the "Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861-1865" (LSU Press, 1989), the name Louisiana Tigers evolved from a volunteer company nicknamed the Tiger Rifles, which was organized in New Orleans. This company became a part of a battalion commanded by Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat and was the only company of that battalion to wear the colorful Zouave uniform. In time, Wheat's entire battalion was called the Tigers.
That nickname in time was applied to all of the Louisiana troops of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The tiger symbol came from the famous Washington Artillery of New Orleans. A militia unit that traces its history back to the 1830s, the Washington Artillery had a logo that featured a snarling tiger's head. These two units first gained fame at the Battle of First Manassas on July 21, 1861. Major David French Boyd, first president of LSU after the war, had fought with the Louisiana troops in Virginia and knew the reputation of both the Tiger Rifles and Washington Artillery.
Thus when LSU football teams entered the gridiron battlefields in their fourth year of intercollegiate competition, they tagged themselves as the 'Tigers'.
It was the 1955 LSU 'fourth-quarter ball club' that helped the moniker 'Tigers' grow into the nickname, 'Fighting Tigers'.
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:45 am to DeafJam73
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Ole Miss is getting criticized for having the Rebels as a mascot because it's "offensive".
I hate these politically correct assholes. Ole Miss was always and forever should be the Rebels. But I'm still a Tiger....sooooo see you in a few weeks Ole Piss.
They're still the Rebels. It's just the on-field mascot that's changing.
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:46 am to Toddy
Don't try and start shite just b/c you punks caved and are now the bears.
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:47 am to drexyl
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basically. why?
Because it's not fair. How would you feel if this shite was happening to LSU.
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:47 am to Jaydeaux
I think it's retarded. The Civil War was over 200 years ago. If anyone is offended when they see the Rebels, then they must be some old SOBs.
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:48 am to Toddy
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Because it's not fair
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:49 am to Toddy
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Because it's not fair. How would you feel if this shite was happening to LSU.
We would start World War 3. Really.
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:49 am to DrTyger
This is great history. 
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:50 am to Toddy
I agree. It isn't fair. We had the same kind of controversy a few years ago with purple and gold rebel flags. Thank God I bought one before all the stores got too scared to sell them.
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:52 am to Toddy
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Because it's not fair. How would you feel if this shite was happening to LSU.
I see ur bear and raise u a Nazi.
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:53 am to DrTyger
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I agree. It isn't fair. We had the same kind of controversy a few years ago with purple and gold rebel flags. Thank God I bought one before all the stores got too scared to sell them.
I remember those well. Back when I was in school, we still waved the flags. We played LSU in Oxford for the first time in years in the late 1980's. I remember seeing a lot of the purple and gold confederate flags on campus. Thought it was really cool.
Posted on 10/15/10 at 11:56 am to Toddy
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Because it's not fair. How would you feel if this shite was happening to LSU.
Y'all are still the Rebels drama queen.
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