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re: 1905 LSU football team photograph ***Update on the photo in the OP***
Posted on 2/14/22 at 5:40 pm to Got Blaze
Posted on 2/14/22 at 5:40 pm to Got Blaze
They don’t look very happy. Maybe this is why:
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In 1905, LSU admitted its first female student, R. O. Davis. She was admitted into a program to pursue a master's degree. The following year, 1906, LSU admitted sixteen female students to its freshman class as part of an experimental program. Before this, LSU's student body was all-male.
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Posted on 2/14/22 at 6:05 pm to theantiquetiger
quote:You post this image on the Aggie Board and their responses will be numbers 1 through 16.
Posted on 2/14/22 at 6:17 pm to soccerfüt
This is a very cool photo that needs to be preserved.
Posted on 2/14/22 at 6:19 pm to theantiquetiger
That’s a great find
Posted on 2/14/22 at 6:22 pm to theantiquetiger
Find the football in the photo.
Posted on 2/14/22 at 7:17 pm to theantiquetiger
You can tell who is from the New Iberia area even in 1905 lol
Posted on 2/15/22 at 4:47 am to theantiquetiger
Update for n the photo in the OP
Posted on 2/15/22 at 8:07 am to theantiquetiger
I'm willing to bet $5 that TAF would take that photo off of your hands for a decent return on whatever you paid for it. 
Posted on 2/15/22 at 8:09 am to Tigear
taf doesnt care about history . they are all a bout the present
Posted on 2/15/22 at 9:46 am to theantiquetiger
Shame no one in that family saw any sentimental value in that picture.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 10:11 am to theantiquetiger
Anyone know why pic won't show up? I can see imgur link, but nothing loads on mobile (android s10), nor Mac.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 1:47 pm to OldmanWalter
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Anyone know why pic won't show up? I can see imgur link, but nothing loads on mobile (android s10), nor Mac.
Apparently it’s just your phone.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 1:58 pm to theantiquetiger
Still more players on LSU in that season than we had for our Bowl Game this past season.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 3:47 pm to theantiquetiger
Doesn’t look like any of those guys are from New Iberia.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 4:00 pm to NoShow
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First pic, dude at far left— is that Coach Sean Payton?
Has very similar facial features.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 9:36 pm to GumboPot
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So all the guys played both ways.
Early American Football resembled rugby more than the game you see today. Players played both ways and downs between plays were a brand new concept.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 8:58 am to GumboPot
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So all the guys played both ways.
I did some research on the rules of our game of Football, as the rules were in 1905. The game had developed the concept of "permanent possession" by then. There were Downs. You had to gain 5 or 10 yards for a First Down (I can't remember which). There were either 3 or 4 Downs (I can't remember which). I can't remember exactly which because the rules changed between 1893 and 1905. The rules were definitely not completely static during those years.
Blocking was allowed. In fact, the Rushing plays of modern Football, where the ball is handed off and the Running Back carries, is similar to the plays you'd see in 1905.
On Defense, the position of End was critical. The End lined up before the Snap looking directly towards the Center. Just like today, the End's job was to turn all plays INSIDE and not allow the ball carrier to get Outside.
Just like Rugby, a good play was to send your Offensive End running like hell downfield so that a perfectly timed punt could catch the Defense off-guard so that the Punt could be fielded downfield. I'm still trying to figure out the rules on what happened after your End recovers the punt from your Quarterback, but, I think that the Offense would retain possession and have a First Down because this "Punt" was a live ball that belonged to whomever recovered it - Offense or Defense.
It was an interesting game.
"Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust" was an accurate description of the game when it was 3 Downs to gain 5 yards for a First Down. If you could gain 3 yards on every play under that rule, you couldn't lose, right?
Also, when the ball went out of bounds, they used something similar to the Rugby "Line Out" to put the ball back in play. It's not clear from the writings I've seen on the game as it was in 1905.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 9:04 am to mikelbr
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Players played both ways and downs between plays were a brand new concept.
Yes, indeed so.
Just like Rugby today, there was very limited Substitution allowed - you could substitute for an injured player. The Eleven stayed on the field for the whole 60 minutes.
Some enterprising college men of today should figure out the 1905 Rules of American Football and start a league to play games under that rule. There must be some way to see the game as it was at that time and still preserve player safety.
I think that people would enjoy watching some amateur 1905 Foot-Ball.
This post was edited on 2/16/22 at 9:08 am
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