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re: What coach was at the helm when you first started following the Tigers?
Posted on 10/7/24 at 6:05 pm to Mike da Tigah
Posted on 10/7/24 at 6:05 pm to Mike da Tigah
Gaynell Tinsley.
A great Tiger, who was a consensus All-American and led the team to a #2 national ranking , two SEC championships and its first two Sugar Bowls. He was a touchdown machine on the nation’s top scoring team.
His coach, Bernie Moore said Tinsley was the toughest player he ever saw and said he would have excelled at any position.
A second round draft choice of the Chicago Cardinals he starred on both offensive and defensive sides of the ball. He tied the great Don Hutson’s record of 41 receptions in 1939.
In 1948 Moore left to become Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, and Tinsley returned to Baton Rouge to coach his former team.
In 1949 he led the Cinderella Tigers to the Sugar Bowl to play the Oklahoma Sooners.
In a familiar storyline he was fired after the 1954 season.
Tinsley was a native of Ruple, in Claiborne Parish, and the first LSU Tiger to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
A great Tiger, who was a consensus All-American and led the team to a #2 national ranking , two SEC championships and its first two Sugar Bowls. He was a touchdown machine on the nation’s top scoring team.
His coach, Bernie Moore said Tinsley was the toughest player he ever saw and said he would have excelled at any position.
A second round draft choice of the Chicago Cardinals he starred on both offensive and defensive sides of the ball. He tied the great Don Hutson’s record of 41 receptions in 1939.
In 1948 Moore left to become Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, and Tinsley returned to Baton Rouge to coach his former team.
In 1949 he led the Cinderella Tigers to the Sugar Bowl to play the Oklahoma Sooners.
In a familiar storyline he was fired after the 1954 season.
Tinsley was a native of Ruple, in Claiborne Parish, and the first LSU Tiger to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
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Posted on 10/7/24 at 6:07 pm to Mike da Tigah
Curley
Posted on 10/7/24 at 6:11 pm to FireAngel
Arnsparger and then Archer. Tommy Hodson was my QB
Posted on 10/7/24 at 6:14 pm to Mike da Tigah
I had that hat. Wish I had kept it. I’m pretty sure my dad still has his.
Posted on 10/7/24 at 6:21 pm to Mike da Tigah
C-Mac
Posted on 10/7/24 at 6:21 pm to TDsngumbo
Jerry Stovall.
Posted on 10/7/24 at 6:29 pm to Mike da Tigah
Mike archer . I remember always listening to the games with my grandmother on the radio in the back room . While everyone hung out in the living room . I also remember when dinardo came and took us to bowl games . I was so jacked about beating the Irish and Michigan state in the independence bowl . Good times
Posted on 10/7/24 at 6:35 pm to Mike da Tigah
Paul Dietzel
Posted on 10/7/24 at 6:40 pm to Mike da Tigah
Paul Dietzel and I loved Cholly Mac
Posted on 10/7/24 at 6:44 pm to Mike da Tigah
Cholly Mac
Posted on 10/7/24 at 7:03 pm to Mike da Tigah
Some people thought FDR was the permanent president.
I thought Charley Mac was the permanent coach.
I had him for over 14 years.
I thought Charley Mac was the permanent coach.
I had him for over 14 years.
Posted on 10/7/24 at 7:08 pm to Mike da Tigah
Paul Dietzel
Posted on 10/7/24 at 7:36 pm to Mike da Tigah
Cholly Mac
Posted on 10/7/24 at 7:41 pm to Mike da Tigah
Curley, Dale and Skip
Posted on 10/7/24 at 8:33 pm to Mike da Tigah
Cholly Mac. Pepsident Paul was already gone.
This post was edited on 10/7/24 at 8:34 pm
Posted on 10/7/24 at 8:45 pm to 777Tiger
I started the fall of '74. Stayed in Johnston Hall.
Posted on 10/7/24 at 9:29 pm to Mike da Tigah
quote:
For me it was Cholly Mac
Posted on 10/7/24 at 11:36 pm to Pepe Lepew
Stovall...
I can vividly remember being at the games while my drunk dad was screaming "Run it up the middle again, Stovall!"
Now I basically do the same thing, but sober.
I can vividly remember being at the games while my drunk dad was screaming "Run it up the middle again, Stovall!"
Now I basically do the same thing, but sober.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 12:17 am to Mike da Tigah
Arnsparger
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