re: Who’s on your Mt. Rushmore of LSU football?

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The 4 most decorated players in LSU history are:

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That is the problem, the farer you go back in college football history the less awards there are to the point there are none.

Also All American is subjective to votes of region and who and how many players one could see in a season, the farer you go back on All American teams the less likely the list is good.

I know Camp only saw about 20 games max a year on his All American teams and most of those games he saw were in the northeastern area.

Coaches All American team votes were commonly filled out by assistant coaches, trainers and sometime team managers back in the day.

Johnny Robinson can not get into the college football Hall of Fame, this is due in part because he was never an All American and in those days it is normally the top rushers, touchdown leaders who made All American.

Johnny is as good as any back you can name.

Doc Fenton would be an all world player had TV been around in his day.

Tinsley is an end and he was light years ahead of his time for that position.

Steve Van Buren is not an All American but as the Miami paper said after the Orange Bowl, forget everything you heard or read, Steve Van Buren is the best college football player in American. Had Steve played at Notre Dame, Michigan, Army, Ohio State, he would have been an All American.

Old south football did not get the awards that should have been given due to lack of press.