re: 1973 LSU Football Season

1972 game-- 7-0 Tiger lead. I believe LSU ended up losing 21-35 in Birmingham

Foley did play, but Looney replaced him on Tulane's final drive of the first half, which led to the Wave's first TD.

It was my first year that I can really remember with clarity, I was 7 years old, and it was the year I went to my first game. I remember a lot about it.

I know we were 9-0 going into the Bama game, both teams undefeated, bit Thanksgiving night game in Tiger Stadium, but a couple of big Bama plays early took us out of it. Then we lost to Tulane

But good memories for me - Mike Miley, Brad Davis an promising freshman by the name of Terry Robiskie - but my favorite player was All Coffee.

Steve Foley did play the entire game, but alternated with Terry Looney. It was Looney quarterbacking on both of Tulane's scoring drives, one in the second quarter and one in the fourth.

I did some research and in typical Tulane fashion they were killed the game before 9-42 to Maryland and were blown out in the Bluebonnet bowl 7-47 by Houston but somehow those pathetic fricks beat us 14-0 in Tulane stadium. People born in the 2000’s have no idea what that game meant.

I was the football reporter for The Reveille then and the ‘73 season is etched into my mind. Visited the coaches every afternoon, rode with the team to away games, etc.

Actually a great season and fun team to be around. Lousy end, of course.

AJ Duhe was a freshman sensation and once ate an apple in three bites and then complained it had no taste.

The bus ride back to BR after the Tulane loss was like a funeral procession.

Charlie Mac was an easy man to like and players loved him. But he was a lot tougher and more no nonsense than fans knew.

Great time to be a Tiger.

Idiots that recall sitting in Superdome in 1973 are, well, idiots.

Was playing for The California Angels when he died in a Car Accident.

Yeah I wasn’t born yet and only know his name due to Jefferson Parish renaming Mike Miley Playground.

I was there. McClendon had this thing where he always alternated tailbacks each series regardless of how well a particular back was running. Brad Davis was gouging Alabama in the first half. On his coach's show later Bear Bryant show on LSU-Bama '73, Bear Bryant repeatedly called Davis a "great back" and that he'd recruited him out of Hammond. "If I'd known how great he actually was, I would have recruited him harder."

Cholly Mac alternated Steve Rogers with Davis, and Rogers was good but not as good as Davis, but then with the game scoreless and the ball on LSU's own 20, McClendon puts in the green freshman, Terry Robiskie, who was highly touted but not ready for the big stage. On the first play Miley pitched out to Robiskie, who took his eye off the ball and fumbled, giving Bama the ball on the 15. Bama QB Rutledge took it in on the next play, and Bama had momentum for the rest of the game.

Actually, LSU drove up and down the field on Bama, running 77 plays to 53 for Bama, but Bama scored on two long passing plays while LSU got down to the Bama 15 twice, but Miley threw two bad interceptions. I think Robiskie lost another fumble in the game.

Davis's 48-yard TD run was spectacular, though, and Bryant raved about it.

Regarding Tulane Stadium, I believe the last game there was the 1974 Sugar Bowl national title game when Notre Dame beat Alabama. I was there for that also.

A former LSU player who was on the sideline for the Orange Bowl vs. Penn State told me that when Cholly Mac substituted a far inferior Billy Broussard for Miley at QB in the second half, Miley threw his helmet down on the sideline and said he'd never play for LSU again. True enough, he went pro baseball the next year.