re: Since the stadium is 100 years old, you know you are old when you remember

Yes There were a lot of dorm rooms under the stadium. That is how Huey Long got the funding for the stadium. He got funding for a much needed dormitory and left a football field sized space between the two wings.

Games did start at 8:00pm then later changed to 7:30pm. Listening to John Ferguson on radio on Saturday nights. All this changed later when TV of games exploded.

Grantland Rice Bowl

If memory is correct, it was part of D-2 playoffs. I remember seeing Delaware and UNLV play in 1974. I was 12 and pulled for Delaware because their uniforms looked like Michigan.

Man I remember back to about 64/65'. My grandmother had box seats, which everyone thought were cool, but you couldn't see shite from about the 25 on towards the NEZ. I remember Mike coming around and cheerleaders on top and him making noise. Gov. McKeithen coming around shaking hands. I don't remember the fence being there.

We drove in from L.C. , and always had a stuffed Tiger in the rear window to the car. We used to eat at the cafeteria on campus. On the way home we would stop in Laffy or Crowley to get a truck stop burger. Dammit those were good times. Our seats were folding chairs. 6 people to a box.

Boy these responses bring back memories. My first game was with a friend of mine and his parents. His dad was a State Policeman and got tickets from my uncle who worked for the state. Stayed at his apartment somewhere. Was my first-time eating at Burger Chef. Later on, and this is in the mid 60's we would go with my father's brother who had two sets of tickets. One was damn near the 50 yd line about halfway up on the home side. Remember watching the LSU band play not far from us going south I believe. Then his other tickets were in top of the north endzone, where all the boy scout ushers would come to watch the rest of the game. Every time the quarter ended those damn horns would scare the shite out of me. And we always wore slacks and a long sleeve button up shirt, and the adults wore coat and ties and the women dresses. It's changed a little over the years.

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I still have my beanie, with the required "DOG [SURNAME] SIR!" written on the inside of the bill. The bill was worn flipped up.

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I still have my Dad’s Freshman Athletic Association Student ticket from his Freshman Year, 1954. He has his beanie on. I can attest to the truthfulness of this post. Except, someone (or Dad) spelled Sir, SUR, on his beanie. And yes, the bill is flipped up.

Those student ID ticket pictures looked more like mugshots than they did a student’s college photo

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when you remember

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When it was built

Sir, are you 90+ years old posting on TD?! ‘47 freshman would make you around early 90s in age

Sid, and later Dan Borne’, would page people they knew “Dr. John, Doctor Long John, pleas call your medical exchange”. (Working a concession stand with Buckskin Bill had its perks)