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re: How LSU became Purple and Gold
Posted on 8/2/13 at 7:52 am to RummelTiger
Posted on 8/2/13 at 7:52 am to RummelTiger
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A writer coined "Crimson Tide" while watching a game.
Something about how their defense looked like a crimson tide rolling over the opponent...
I think it was during a rain game as well, which is why the Tide got coined in the name. Their socks were crimson...
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Posted on 8/2/13 at 7:55 am to Kajungee
quote:Thats what I was old also. Mardi Gras time during one of their games, or their first game and that all the fabric store had. (which makes no sense if they played fball in the fall also back then) Mardi Gras is in March
This is what I had always been told as well.
Posted on 8/2/13 at 8:01 am to The Mick
(which makes no sense...
Life is that way sometimes my friend.
Life is that way sometimes my friend.
Posted on 8/2/13 at 8:11 am to RummelTiger
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coined "Crimson Tide" while watching a game.
Something about how their defense looked like
Both of which are stupid names. Neither an elephant nor a red wave have anything to do with Alabama.
Posted on 8/2/13 at 9:31 am to The Mick
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Which makes no sense
I was always told it was a baseball game.
This post was edited on 8/2/13 at 9:32 am
Posted on 8/2/13 at 12:24 pm to Tiger_n_ATL
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Both of which are stupid names. Neither an elephant nor a red wave have anything to do with Alabama.
Because there are soooooo many tigers in Louisiana
Posted on 8/2/13 at 3:38 pm to BRAVEHEART
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Anybody know why Ole Miss didn't choose an animal back then for the mascot
The black bears didn't migrate there yet?
Posted on 8/2/13 at 7:43 pm to Hurricane Mike
Thanks HM !!! You have to know where you came from to prepare for where you will go 
Posted on 8/2/13 at 9:15 pm to Hurricane Mike
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They gave us a very good beating, to the intense indignation of many of our local followers. Ruff Pleasant got a small cut on the forehead which bled a little bit and he was borne from the field.
Excellent
Posted on 8/3/13 at 6:14 am to Hurricane Mike
What a great story. Okay, negatigers your turn to critique.
Posted on 8/3/13 at 8:22 am to BRAVEHEART
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Anybody know why Ole Miss didn't choose an animal back then for the mascot?
Ole Miss was originally "the Flood." They became "Rebels" later, I think in the 30s or so.
Posted on 8/3/13 at 9:50 am to unbeWEAVEable
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Civil War Regiment from Louisiana.
fighting tigers
Posted on 8/3/13 at 10:18 am to tigerinridgeland
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Ole Miss was originally "the Flood." They became "Rebels" later, I think in the 30s or so.
Chosen by a vote of the student body.
The runner up was "Ole Massas"
Posted on 8/3/13 at 2:27 pm to Hurricane Mike
Cool. It's interesting how many of the SEC school's colors are Civil War related.
Here's Wheat's Zouaves, the "tiger" unit from Louisiana (note the blue and white striped trousers):
Also, someone asked about Alabama. The sports writer story Rummy referenced is a new story Alabama created to keep the PC crowd from demonstrating. Hell, the campus newspaper was the "Crimson-White" long before that supposed football game in the red clay was ever played. The game is where the "Crimson Tide" moniker came from, but not where the name "Crimson" came from.
Truth is, in the 1870s/1880s, the University cadets were sent to Mobile to march in a Mardi Gras parade. Whichever krew hosted them came up with the crimson, white, and gray colors. Here's what the were originally supposed to stand for: crimson for the blood shed by the students in defense of the campus in April 1865, gray for the color of their coats, and white for the color of their trousers. Until that the game played in the red clay, the UA football team was called the "Crimson" or the "Varsity."
The elephant deal came from the 1925 Rose Bowl trip. The UA team used luggage donated by the Alabama Trunk Company, which used an elephant as its logo. The luggage handlers and Rose Bowl committee assumed that the elephant was Alabama's logo, so it simply stuck. The "Roll Tide" phrase is from the Civil War-era song, Roll, Alabama, Roll, about the CSS Alabama.
Sorry for the hijack. Great thread!
Here's Wheat's Zouaves, the "tiger" unit from Louisiana (note the blue and white striped trousers):
Also, someone asked about Alabama. The sports writer story Rummy referenced is a new story Alabama created to keep the PC crowd from demonstrating. Hell, the campus newspaper was the "Crimson-White" long before that supposed football game in the red clay was ever played. The game is where the "Crimson Tide" moniker came from, but not where the name "Crimson" came from.
Truth is, in the 1870s/1880s, the University cadets were sent to Mobile to march in a Mardi Gras parade. Whichever krew hosted them came up with the crimson, white, and gray colors. Here's what the were originally supposed to stand for: crimson for the blood shed by the students in defense of the campus in April 1865, gray for the color of their coats, and white for the color of their trousers. Until that the game played in the red clay, the UA football team was called the "Crimson" or the "Varsity."
The elephant deal came from the 1925 Rose Bowl trip. The UA team used luggage donated by the Alabama Trunk Company, which used an elephant as its logo. The luggage handlers and Rose Bowl committee assumed that the elephant was Alabama's logo, so it simply stuck. The "Roll Tide" phrase is from the Civil War-era song, Roll, Alabama, Roll, about the CSS Alabama.
Sorry for the hijack. Great thread!
This post was edited on 8/3/13 at 2:32 pm
Posted on 11/24/13 at 8:27 pm to Hurricane Mike
The baseball team started the purple and gold before Dr. Coates, about 5 months before.
Many Louisiana infantry units wore blue at the start of the war.
Even the famous Louisiana Tigers (Wheat's 1st special battalion) wore blue vest (the Tiger Rifles) over their shirts at the start, and one company in the battalion wore all blue at 1st Manassas.
Tigers was picked because of David French Boyd's connection to the Tigers. Boyd was one of the few to help find Wheat's body and bury it on the field the night after the battle of Gaines' Mill. Boyd passed away in 1899, his brother (Thomas) was the president of LSU since 1896.
Many Louisiana infantry units wore blue at the start of the war.
Even the famous Louisiana Tigers (Wheat's 1st special battalion) wore blue vest (the Tiger Rifles) over their shirts at the start, and one company in the battalion wore all blue at 1st Manassas.
Tigers was picked because of David French Boyd's connection to the Tigers. Boyd was one of the few to help find Wheat's body and bury it on the field the night after the battle of Gaines' Mill. Boyd passed away in 1899, his brother (Thomas) was the president of LSU since 1896.
Posted on 11/24/13 at 8:32 pm to Me Bite
Crimson Tide is also a Civil War term, used by many when talking about the rebel units charging.
The Confederate Battle Flags is what the eye witnesses were talking about when looking at a charge by a large number of infantry units, it looks like a red tide coming at you.
So for a writer to use this in reference to football is easy to see.
The Confederate Battle Flags is what the eye witnesses were talking about when looking at a charge by a large number of infantry units, it looks like a red tide coming at you.
So for a writer to use this in reference to football is easy to see.
This post was edited on 11/24/13 at 8:34 pm
Posted on 11/24/13 at 8:35 pm to Hurricane Mike
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I don't understand that shite. Your deciding on the next 4 years of your life and you are worried about the uniform?
When 17-18 year olds begin to think rationally, let me know.
Posted on 11/24/13 at 8:36 pm to Hurricane Mike
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How LSU became Purple and Gold
Outstanding article! Thanks for posting that.
Posted on 11/24/13 at 8:40 pm to tigger1
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Louisiana Tigers (Wheat's 1st special battalion) wore blue vest (the Tiger Rifles)
I believe they got the moniker Tigers because most of the unit was made up of Irish immigrants from New Orleans and they liked a good drink and a good fight.
One disgusted observer proclaimed that many of Wheat’s recruits were “the lowest scum of the lower Mississippi...adventurous wharf rats, thieves, and outcasts...and bad characters generally.
Posted on 11/24/13 at 8:51 pm to unbeWEAVEable
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Can anyone tell me when/how the "Bayou Bengals" nickname came into circulation?
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Civil War Regiment from Louisiana.
You sure about that? Thought that was the Fightin Tigers?
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