Since the stadium is 100 years old, you know you are old when you remember

“When FDR died.”

I was 11 for my first TS experience in 2000 vs Tennessee. I honestly remember more about how shitty that west upper deck and its escalator was than the game itself.

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Capacity was 67,500

The seats were wood, not aluminum

Adult male fans wore a suit and tie to the game

Freshmen were required to wear pajamas and beanie hats

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I relate to these. I grew up in Magnolia Woods and remember the 1964 Rice game as my first (it wasn't). John Ferguson was on the radio. Sid Crocker was "Dr. #420...please call the medical exchange" over the PA. We always lost to Bama. Bert Jones to Andy Hamilton was my favorite play.

I don't remember the wood seats in the stadium. That was before my time but, we did have a porch swing made from the wood benches that were in TS.

Sid Crocker paging doctors by their assigned number via the PA system during games since pagers did not exist.

I was 11 years old when I attended my first LSU game vs Alabama. The year 1965 and we lost to Alabama 31-7. Two months after Hurricane Betsy and Jean Dixon predicted a chlorine barge that sunk in the Mississippi River would implode during the game. My buddy and I were actually freaking out until the predicted time passed. For those of you to young to remember — Jean Dixon made many predictions and her claim to fame was the one where she predicted a a young US President would be shot. This all from memory that may need to be fact checked. Not the game though, it was 31-7.

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I relate to these. I grew up in Magnolia Woods and remember the 1964 Rice game as my first (it wasn't). John Ferguson was on the radio. Sid Crocker was "Dr. #420...please call the medical exchange" over the PA. We always lost to Bama

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In 1972, I was 8 years old. I was sitting next to my Dad during a game and they called “Doctor #387, please call medical exchange!” The man in a suit and tie sitting behind us said “I hope they don’t call my number tonight.”

I looked up at my Dad and said “one day they’ll be calling my number.”

TS had no upper decks
And one many forget, smoking was allowed in TS. Sometimes the smoke was so thick, TS looked like a chimney, especially if it was a hot muggy night.
Also, besides men in suit and tie, women wore dresses and high heels.

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kickoff was 8 PM.

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I’m pretty sure the games used to start at 7:30. At least in the late seventies and early eighties. I do remember the wooden bleachers though. When they started replacing them with the metal my grandpa got his hands on some of the wood and made a porch swing with our four seat numbers that we sat on in the stadium across the front of it

Went to my first game when I was 11. saw the Tigers beat Hardin Simmons. Saw several games that 1958 championship season. Got spoiled.

Lived in refurbished dorm in North Stadium as a freshman in 1964.

Many Good Times in that stadium over the years.

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I am pretty sure I have seen ticket stubs to the Billy Cannon run game

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Well there was about 350,000 people in the stands that night, so I could see why.