re: Protest tomorrow in front of the Union re: the failure to recognize the 1908 championship.

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I was told, by oldtimers back in the 1960s (I was a kid and those guys were in their 70's), that our 1908 team had multiple players who were paid somehow for playing or weren't even LSU students at the time. Anyone else heard something like that? The implication was that LSU wasn't going to officially claim that title due to those questions.

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Even if the 1908 team had mercenary players, it wasn't exactly uncommon for the day. College football was like the wild west.

Walter Eckersall was a HOF and 3-time all-American QB for UChicago. He never attended class, he left school after his final game, and the university doesn't even have an official academic record for him as a student. They still claim their 1905 national championship.