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Posted on 5/19/09 at 12:58 pm to SNAKE
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I was thinking out of state for some reason. I was gonna say Mexico City, knowing that they did play some game in a Latin country.
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LSU's 1965 freshman football team played another university's freshman team ( it might have been Tulane or a Texas school ) in an exhibition game
in Mexico City !
Pretty cool info, no doubt. Not sure how to count freshman team exhibition games, but probably doesn't qualify for this question. Interesting asterisk nonetheless!! (and Mexico City is well-south of Havana, obviously)
Posted on 5/19/09 at 2:13 pm to JPinLondon
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Pretty cool info, no doubt. Not sure how to count freshman team exhibition games, but probably doesn't qualify for this question. Interesting asterisk nonetheless!! (and Mexico City is well-south of Havana, obviously)
Freshman teams only played about 4 games a season. I might have mis-labled the game as an exhibition ......only so in the sense that it was not a home game for either team ! It featured future 1st string AP all-american linebacker George Bevan .
An interesting side line to this was that the last previous international team competition ( to the best of my knowledge ) in which LSU was involved was in 1934 . The LSU Track Team vs the country of Puerto Rico ! ( because of the close ties ie agriculture etc.. between La & PR ) My dad was a freshman pole vaulter. He said that LSU won almost every event but that PR had a scoring system that allowed them to enter as many as they could in any event with the 1st 10 places scoring points.
Needless to say LSU ,with no more than 2 entrants per event , lost the meet ! But then again this was about " sugar cane diplomacy " ! Sorry if I got off point but you seem interested in the trivia.
Posted on 5/19/09 at 3:13 pm to JPinLondon
Furtherest North-- Madison, Wisconsin, 1971 (LSU 38 Wisconsin 28)
Posted on 5/19/09 at 3:45 pm to melonheadla
good guesses to all!!! thanks for playing!
FULL SUMMARY of ALL ANSWERS
(if identical answer given multiple times, credit goes to first appearance of correct answer)
bozeaux got furthest North >> Madison, Wisconsin (Camp Randall Stadium) on September 25, 1971 vs. Wisconsin (LSU 38 UW 28)
WikiTiger got furthest South >> Havana, Cuba (La Tropical Stadium, Almendares Park) on Christmas Day, 1907 vs. Havana University (LSU 56 Havana 0)
Godfather1 got furthest East >> Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (Alumni Stadium) on October 17, 1947 vs. Boston College (LSU 14 BC 13)
robg1124 got furthest West >> Los Angeles, California (L.A. Memorial Coliseum) on September 29, 1984 vs. Southern Cal (LSU 23 USC 3)
BONUS
robg1124 got highest altitude >> 5,363 feet at Boulder, Colorado (Folsum Field) on September 15, 1979 vs. Colorado (LSU 44 CU 0)
DaBeerz got lowest altitude >> New Orleans, Louisiana (numerous trips to Tulane Stadium (~1-2 feet), Louisiana Superdome (~1-2 feet), and a November 14, 1925 trip to Loyola (0-1 feet)
FULL SUMMARY of ALL ANSWERS
(if identical answer given multiple times, credit goes to first appearance of correct answer)
bozeaux got furthest North >> Madison, Wisconsin (Camp Randall Stadium) on September 25, 1971 vs. Wisconsin (LSU 38 UW 28)
WikiTiger got furthest South >> Havana, Cuba (La Tropical Stadium, Almendares Park) on Christmas Day, 1907 vs. Havana University (LSU 56 Havana 0)
Godfather1 got furthest East >> Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (Alumni Stadium) on October 17, 1947 vs. Boston College (LSU 14 BC 13)
robg1124 got furthest West >> Los Angeles, California (L.A. Memorial Coliseum) on September 29, 1984 vs. Southern Cal (LSU 23 USC 3)
BONUS
robg1124 got highest altitude >> 5,363 feet at Boulder, Colorado (Folsum Field) on September 15, 1979 vs. Colorado (LSU 44 CU 0)
DaBeerz got lowest altitude >> New Orleans, Louisiana (numerous trips to Tulane Stadium (~1-2 feet), Louisiana Superdome (~1-2 feet), and a November 14, 1925 trip to Loyola (0-1 feet)
Posted on 5/20/09 at 2:59 pm to JPinLondon
Nice Trivia... Need to keep this up on a weekly basis. I love the nostalgic chatter...
Posted on 5/21/09 at 9:25 am to nicklsu
thanks dude, I try! Next Tuesday's Trivia Q will be a bit late, around 11am (I've got a 6:30am flight out of LaGuardia that morning)
ADDITIONAL FOOTNOTES
If LSU wanted to play further North than Seattle, Washington, we couldn't do so within Division I-A (FBS). Even an invite to Detroit's Motor City Bowl or to Toronto's International Bowl would be WELL south of Seattle.
If LSU wanted to play further South than Havana, we'd have to schedule a road game at Hawai'i (or be invited to the Hawai'i Bowl at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu)
If LSU wanted to play further East than Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, we couldn't do so within Division I-A.
Two other notable eastern seaboard games (amongst MANY) include:
-- Worcester, MA (Fitton Field) on October 7, 1939 vs. Holy Cross (LSU 26 HC 7) -- only 32 miles west of Boston College in Chestnut Hill
-- Brooklyn, NYC (Ebbets Field) on October 12, 1935 vs. Manhattan (LSU 32 Manhattan 0)
If LSU wanted to play further West than Seattle (within Division I-A), our choices include:
-- Oregon State's Reser Stadium in Corvallis
-- Oregon's Autzen Stadium in Eugene
-- an invitation to the Emerald Bowl at AT&T Park in San Francisco
-- Aloha Stadium in Honolulu (Hawai'i Bowl or road game at UH)
note: Spartan Stadium (San Jose St.), California Memorial Stadium (Cal), and Stanford Stadium are all slightly East of Husky Stadium
A FEW SOURCES
LSU vs. Havana: Making History
Fitton Field (Holy Cross Football)
Football Games at Ebbets Field (Flatbush, Brooklyn)
ADDITIONAL FOOTNOTES
If LSU wanted to play further North than Seattle, Washington, we couldn't do so within Division I-A (FBS). Even an invite to Detroit's Motor City Bowl or to Toronto's International Bowl would be WELL south of Seattle.
If LSU wanted to play further South than Havana, we'd have to schedule a road game at Hawai'i (or be invited to the Hawai'i Bowl at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu)
If LSU wanted to play further East than Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, we couldn't do so within Division I-A.
Two other notable eastern seaboard games (amongst MANY) include:
-- Worcester, MA (Fitton Field) on October 7, 1939 vs. Holy Cross (LSU 26 HC 7) -- only 32 miles west of Boston College in Chestnut Hill
-- Brooklyn, NYC (Ebbets Field) on October 12, 1935 vs. Manhattan (LSU 32 Manhattan 0)
If LSU wanted to play further West than Seattle (within Division I-A), our choices include:
-- Oregon State's Reser Stadium in Corvallis
-- Oregon's Autzen Stadium in Eugene
-- an invitation to the Emerald Bowl at AT&T Park in San Francisco
-- Aloha Stadium in Honolulu (Hawai'i Bowl or road game at UH)
note: Spartan Stadium (San Jose St.), California Memorial Stadium (Cal), and Stanford Stadium are all slightly East of Husky Stadium
A FEW SOURCES
LSU vs. Havana: Making History
Fitton Field (Holy Cross Football)
Football Games at Ebbets Field (Flatbush, Brooklyn)
Posted on 5/21/09 at 9:36 am to JPinLondon
Cool thread. having seen a ll the right answers, I can honestly say that I would have gotten the Havana and Los Angeles ones correct, maybe the Tulane also.
This is pretty cool, keep it up.
This is pretty cool, keep it up.
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