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Old Memories of Southeastern vs. LSU
Posted on 9/4/18 at 5:02 pm
Posted on 9/4/18 at 5:02 pm
Nov. 19, 1949 LSU 48 Southeastern 7
I was eight years-old and this was my first game at Tiger Stadium. Dad attended LSU before World War II, and after the war studied at Southeastern on the GI Bill. He and my uncles were big LSU fans.
Then the stadium was a horseshoe with the south end open. It was an afternoon game, so that morning dad and mom piled us three kids in the old Studebaker and made the trip to Baton Rouge. We parked close to the stadium near the old tiger cage. I don’t remember much about the game, but was impressed with the Tigers and the campus.
The game was unremarkable, a very good LSU team defeating a decent Southeastern team (the next season Southeastern defeated Auburn). A significant bit of Tiger lore came out of this game. Although the Tigers were comfortably ahead at half-time, Coach Gaynell Tinsley was not pleased with the team’s intensity. He pulled the starters and sent them to a practice field south of the stadium in full view of most of the crowd and had them run contact drills. The subs played the entire second half to seal the win.
I don’t know the announced attendance, but there were many empty seats (the north end zone was almost completely empty). This was a very good Tiger team which finished the regular season 8-2. The 1949 Tigers are called the Cinderella Team – they beat three conference champs: Rice, the Southwest Conference champions; North Carolina, Southern Conference champions; and Tulane, the SEC champions.
I was eight years-old and this was my first game at Tiger Stadium. Dad attended LSU before World War II, and after the war studied at Southeastern on the GI Bill. He and my uncles were big LSU fans.
Then the stadium was a horseshoe with the south end open. It was an afternoon game, so that morning dad and mom piled us three kids in the old Studebaker and made the trip to Baton Rouge. We parked close to the stadium near the old tiger cage. I don’t remember much about the game, but was impressed with the Tigers and the campus.
The game was unremarkable, a very good LSU team defeating a decent Southeastern team (the next season Southeastern defeated Auburn). A significant bit of Tiger lore came out of this game. Although the Tigers were comfortably ahead at half-time, Coach Gaynell Tinsley was not pleased with the team’s intensity. He pulled the starters and sent them to a practice field south of the stadium in full view of most of the crowd and had them run contact drills. The subs played the entire second half to seal the win.
I don’t know the announced attendance, but there were many empty seats (the north end zone was almost completely empty). This was a very good Tiger team which finished the regular season 8-2. The 1949 Tigers are called the Cinderella Team – they beat three conference champs: Rice, the Southwest Conference champions; North Carolina, Southern Conference champions; and Tulane, the SEC champions.
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Posted on 9/4/18 at 5:04 pm to blueridgeTiger
wow! thanks for Sharing!
Posted on 9/4/18 at 5:22 pm to blueridgeTiger
Awesome story! Thanks for sharing!
Posted on 9/4/18 at 5:23 pm to blueridgeTiger
Thank you for sharing sir.
Posted on 9/4/18 at 5:46 pm to blueridgeTiger
You’re my boy blue!
This post was edited on 9/4/18 at 5:48 pm
Posted on 9/4/18 at 6:38 pm to rattlebucket
Great story - thanks for sharing.
Posted on 9/4/18 at 7:41 pm to blueridgeTiger
Awesome story, OP thanks for sharing.
Posted on 9/4/18 at 7:49 pm to blueridgeTiger
How in the hell can you remember all that shite?
Posted on 9/4/18 at 7:50 pm to blueridgeTiger
Posted on 9/4/18 at 7:55 pm to blueridgeTiger
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He pulled the starters and sent them to a practice field south of the stadium in full view of most of the crowd and had them run contact drills.
Can you, for a moment, imagine this scenario nowadays?
Posted on 9/4/18 at 8:04 pm to patnuh
quote:
How in the hell can you remember all that shite?
I don't actually remember the part about the starters being pulled, but I read about years later.
Posted on 9/4/18 at 8:05 pm to blueridgeTiger
Was there indoor plumbing in those days?
Posted on 9/4/18 at 8:12 pm to blueridgeTiger
Ok, that makes me feel better. I just figured I can't remember stuff like that bc of the booze.
Posted on 9/4/18 at 8:39 pm to patnuh
Shocking that Tulane won the conference that year, or any year.
Posted on 9/4/18 at 8:45 pm to blueridgeTiger
That is true from what my father told me several times. He played on the 1949 team. He thought the 1st and 2nd teams scrimmaging behind the bleachers, in view of Southeastern's team and fans, was unsportsmanlike and an insult, but Coach Tinsley ordered it and he scrimmaged in the field the whole 2nd half as directed.
Coach Tinsley was one tough guy he said. He watched Tinsley play at LSU as a kid; nobody ran around his end in college nor supposedly in the NFL. Tinsley had arms like Popeye according to my father and would face the linemen with no pads and would throw them aside like rag dolls. He said that offensive linemen in that day could not use their hands at all, they were supposed to hold their jerseys to avoid a holding call. It made pass blocking without a face mask miserable in his words because the defensive lineman could use their hands.
I always wondered if maybe he had exaggerated that story a bit, until I read this thread.
Coach Tinsley was one tough guy he said. He watched Tinsley play at LSU as a kid; nobody ran around his end in college nor supposedly in the NFL. Tinsley had arms like Popeye according to my father and would face the linemen with no pads and would throw them aside like rag dolls. He said that offensive linemen in that day could not use their hands at all, they were supposed to hold their jerseys to avoid a holding call. It made pass blocking without a face mask miserable in his words because the defensive lineman could use their hands.
I always wondered if maybe he had exaggerated that story a bit, until I read this thread.
Posted on 9/5/18 at 12:36 pm to rasczak
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rasczak
Thanks for this story about your father. I think Peter Finney gives an account of this game in his book, Seventy Five Years of LSU Football. I'll try to dig out my copy of this book and relate the passages about that game.
Posted on 9/5/18 at 1:40 pm to blueridgeTiger
there is a somewhat amazing story about the "mad painters" before the Tulane game that year at Tulane Stadium. Supposedly some LSU students broke in the stadium and painted LSU 21 TU 0 all around the stadium --- before the game.
Final score? LSU 21 Tulane 0.
Final score? LSU 21 Tulane 0.
Posted on 9/5/18 at 2:05 pm to I-59 Tiger
That 1949 season was a hoot. North Carolina featuring Charlie "Choo-Choo" Justice was heavily favored coming into Tiger Stadium. Someone "accidentally" left the field watering system on for 24 hours before the game. Choo-Choo could never gain traction on the wet field and the Tigers won 13-7.
Posted on 9/5/18 at 2:36 pm to blueridgeTiger
Great story.
I’m LSU all the way and hope LSU uses the game to fix mistakes and gain experience.
Hope SLU enjoys the big time ball experience and TV exposure.
Pray for absolutely no injuries.
I’m LSU all the way and hope LSU uses the game to fix mistakes and gain experience.
Hope SLU enjoys the big time ball experience and TV exposure.
Pray for absolutely no injuries.
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