re: Most successful player to transfer from LSU to another college?

Stan Humphries

/ thread

Hawkins dressed for the Oregon State game in 04. Then left

How about Terry Bradshaw? He was an ok player.

ryan gilbert

Best all-around athlete to transfer from LSU would be Alvin Dark

JT Wise

Alvin Dark didn't transfer from LSU, he joined the USMC officer training program which was at ULL durning the war.

Like Dub Jones joined the Navy officer training program, which was at Tulane.

Both the Navy and Marinea allowed their officer in training to join the college team they where attending.

The US Army would not let it's officer in training join the college team they where attending.

This is the reason the LSU 1943 team only had 2 starters returning from 1942, Van Buren and Joe Nagato (yes he is the only Japanese American playing college football in WWII that I know in 1943).

Joe Nagato would go on to join the most famous Japanese American out fit of the war, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

These are not what you would call transfers just World War II broke out and many answered the called to arms, some going to the Army, Marines and the Navy.

One LSU football player was even with "The Most Decorated Platoon" of the war, the 18-man Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon from the 99th Infantry Division along with four Forward Air Controllers. In this one day of fighting, the 18 men of this I&R platoon inflicted between 400-500 German casualties, nearly destroying a battalion of the German 3rd Parachute Division. The German attack plan in this sector was seriously disrupted to the point that they were delayed roughly 24 hours. In those 24 hours, Kampfgruupe Peiper was to have reached the Meuse River. Instead, they had only advanced a few miles, and the 99th and 2nd Infantry Divisions had time to set up defenses at Elsenborn Ridge, where they stopped the Germans cold.

Lester Earl didn't do shite at Kansas.