Player comparison 1958 vs 2018

It's not just size on paper but overall speed, strength, etc. I don't ever understand the Lebron to Michael Jordan comparison, aside from them being totally different players, because they're in completely different eras of training, nutrition, analytics, etc. Who really knows what the other would have done in that era?

I mean we flipped from white athletes to black athletes

I was fortunate enough to attend several games in the 1958 season and knew a couple of the players on that team. If anything, the weights of the players were exaggerated. Even by the standards of the day, the 1958 Tigers were small. The average starting lineup of the AAA Bogalusa Lumberjacks outweighed the starting lineup of the Tigers that year.

Thanks for that post.

The size difference are most obvious for the linemen.

Less of a difference for the skill positions. Johnny Robinson for example was listed at 6’ 185 lb, but when he went to the pros as a DB he put on weight to about 200 lb. not much different than some of the current DBs.

Also the 1970 LSU team that went toe to toe with #1 Nebraska was always smaller than its opponents. Ronnie Estay was only about 230. John Sage was even smaller, maybe 215, and these very good DTs were going against the huge Nebraska OL.

I believe there were some changes in the rules for the OL in what they could do with their arms and hands. These changes favored bigger bodies.

White athletes are bigger now also stupid,arse

This doesn't have anything to do with LSU but it does fit the thread. My dad was born in 1915 and played HS football. He told me once that his team found some newspaper clippings about a championship team from his school from just a few years earlier and his team outweighed them by ten pounds per man. So, the trend has been going on for a long time.

How big were you when you played?

I did not play after junior high, not good enough and went to work bought car.

Istrouma did not need me won AAA championship 55, 56, 57, 59, 61, 62 had folks like Cannon, Moonie Winston and George Rice plus others.

Back when football was played by normal people.