re: Off season topic- 1970's LSU football let's hear about it

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but i also remember: the pass is intercepted by....nobody! it's complete for a 25 yard gain.

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Jackson back to punt, it's a beautiful, spiraling, end over end....IT'S BLOCKED!!!!

My dad was a ticket taker. He had been in the band in 1959. My first memories as a child was going to the games. He could stay for free when he took tickets. But when he didn't work the gate, we would go, park anywhere we wanted, and eat deviled eggs, boiled peanuts, and sandwiches our of our trunk. That was the tailgate,

I don't ever remember having tickets. We always waited on the east side and usually minutes before kickoff, we would get great seats in the visitor section for almost nothing.

Afer the game, we waited at the stadium where the players exited. My first autograph was from Bert Jones. But my favorite player was his cousin, Andy Hamilton. And my second autograph was from Charles Alexander in pencil. I had a cousin who they gave the tear away jerseys to, and he would sew them up and sell them. He gave me a Terry Robiskie. I wore it playing football in the backyard. As soon as I washed it, it disintegrated, lol.

For some reason, Charlie Mac liked my cousin. He was extremely overweight. He said we could go to his office after the games. I didn't believe him.

Anyway, he told me to follow him after a game, and he took me to Charlie Mac's office. Knocked on the door, secretary let us in. We went into the coach's office, he introduced himself to me, and fixed us each a Coca Cola. Talked for about 5 minutes, and then we had to leave so he could do his after game show.

Best memories I ever had.

What made the 1971 game against Notre Dame in Tiger Stadium so much anticipated and exciting was the revenge factor as Notre Dame beat LSU 3-0 in South Bend in 1970.

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AJ Duhe

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AJ Duhe, Terry Robiskie, Bruce Hemphill and others played for LSU during the years 1973-76, the bad ole days when the team lost 13 straight road games!

It was uncanny. They were lights out in Tiger Stadium, tying #1 Nebraska but faltering at Florida and at Kentucky (purple jerseys); beating Ole Miss 45-0 but going to Legion Field in Birmingham the next week and getting blown out. That was back when the phrase "road game jitters" began.

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AJ Duhe, Terry Robiskie, Bruce Hemphill

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used to hang out with those guys when I was at LSU, they were some cool dudes, it's a shame what social media, NIL et al has done to these kids, now I see there's a "Livvy Dunne of college swimming" out there

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I consider USC 79 to be the greatest game in Tiger Stadium

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I was 10 at the time, didn't realize the amount of talent USC had on the field. LSU worked them over and could have easily won the game.

Albert Richardson was a year behind me in HS. I remember in the traditional postgame fight on the field with Tara, he had a guy under each arm and was looking to round up more. Was such a badass in college

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I looked up at the student section and saw not only was every seat taken, but the overflow students were sitting on the steps between sections-there was nowhere to walk!

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When I was there in the early 80’s students would stand on the benches, and then a partial row was standing on the ground in between the benches. They were cramming in about 160% of the student section capacity. Finally, the Fire Marshal put a stop to that.

LSU won 9 games five years in a row - 1969-1973.

In 1969 LSU went 9-1, losing to Ole Miss and Archie Manning 26-23, when Coach Mac waived a tying FG and went for winning TD on 4th down. The pass was knocked down in the OM end zone.
Still, before the Tulane game, 8-1 and Top 10 LSU was invited to play in the Jan. 1, 1970 Cotton Bowl vs #1 Texas. That is, until 7-2 #11 Notre Dame decided to participate in bowl games after 40 years. The Cotton Bowl reneged on its invite to LSU and took ND instead.
The LSU players voted to turn down a lesser bowl (Bluebonnet) and stayed home at 9-1.
Had LSU tied Ole Miss, they likely would have gone instead of ND.

The next fall, highly regarded freshman QB Butch Duhe died of a brain hemorrhage 2 weeks before the season. Preseason Top 5 LSU lost the 1970 opener 20-18 to lightly-regarded Texas A&M on a last play Hail-Mary from Lex James to Carl Roaches.
LSU's only other 1970 loss was at Notre Dame (how ironic) 3-0. LSU dropped a potential winning pick-six in the ND end zone. And ND kicked the winning FG on the next play. (LSU would get revenge in Tiger Stadium the next year 28-8.)
8-2 LSU was invited to play #1 juggernaut Nebraska in the Jan.1, 1971 Orange Bowl. LSU actually led 12-10 late in the game, when Bert Jones threw an ill-advised interception. Nebraska and Jerry Tagge pulled it out 17-12. Nebraska had destroyed everyone that year, but barely eked out a win vs LSU.

1969 and 1970 were my two most memorable years of late 60s-1970s LSU football, as they were my first two when I was very young. Two years where we literally were a few plays from being unbeaten.

With Charlie Mac coaching….. there was never a doubt that 2 quarterbacks would see playing time. I don’t think Bert Jones ever played an entire game at LSU…..