re: LSU - The National Champions of 1908

That I know of only one player on the 1908 team passed away from the Spanish Flu, he was up in Oregon and joined the Army and was a Major in the medical crops. this Wingards brother in-law.

Most of the team lived into the late 1930's and early 1940's, some even made it to the 1950's and 1960's, Doc Fenton lived to 1968.

Doc was born in 1887 and Mansfield Normal is not a college, it was a prep school. Today Mansfield is a college, back in those days eight grade was the highest level of school, you went to a prep school to get a teaching degree or prep for college. Louisiana had many prep schools back in those days like all states.

First death on the team was Clarence Smith passing away less that 4 weeks after the season.