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the change was in 1956
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Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:14 pm to wilceaux
This website suggests that the change came in 1956:
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To this:
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Dietzel entered his second season by introducing a new helmet design, putting his stamp on the Bengal program. The helmet was changed to a Green Bay gold that featured a white one-inch center stripe and purple three-quarter-inch flanking stripes, a look that has become synonymous and identified with the LSU football program since its unveiling.
From this:
To this:
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Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:19 pm to GumboPot
Maybe 80’s
Late 60’s was still old gold
Late 60’s was still old gold
Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:19 pm to LSU Jock 1970
quote:Wow
Maybe 80’s
Late 60’s was still old gold
Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:19 pm to EasterEgg
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I didn't know that we did. I thought the story was we got our colors from leftover Mardi Gras decorations (which also uses "yellow gold")?
What I thought too and Tulane took the green
Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:23 pm to GumboPot
I am still waiting for the change to rose gold
Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:35 pm to MISSOURI WALTZ
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I do not like lavender
You may need to get your eyes checked. If anything, our purple is more on the blue side.
Our colors are Royal Purple and Old Gold. And not a year goes by that people aren't on here complaining about that, "ThAt AiNt GoLd, ThAtS yElLeR!"
Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:51 pm to boxcarbarney
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quote:
I do not like lavender
quote:What I don't like is the jersey purple doesn't come close to matching our helmet purple, which is our true shade of purple.
You may need to get your eyes checked. If anything, our purple is more on the blue side.
Looking back at earlier years, the jersey and helmet purples matched -- lately, they've been nowhere close. I don't get it.
Aren't there quality control people in charge of this kind of thing?
Posted on 12/19/19 at 4:04 pm to atltiger6487
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What I don't like is the jersey purple doesn't come close to matching our helmet purple
While we're nitpicking, when did we go to 5 stripes on the pants instead of 3 like the jerseys?
Posted on 12/19/19 at 4:32 pm to leftovergumbo
In 1956 my brother was a freshman & our family went to the LSU v Tulane game. LSU wore the old gold uniform.
In 1957 we went to the homecoming game in the "old" Tiger Stadium & they were in the yellow gold uniform.
In 1957 we went to the homecoming game in the "old" Tiger Stadium & they were in the yellow gold uniform.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 4:34 pm to LSU Jock 1970
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Late 60’s was still old gold
Maybe to you. On my TV it was a butterscotch yellow. Definitely not old gold.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 4:53 pm to FightinTigersDammit
The pretense of gold is ridiculous. If anything, now it's canary yellow and purple. And those colors have become more pronounced over the years.
Univ of Washington wears purple and gold.
Univ of Washington wears purple and gold.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 5:00 pm to liz18lsu
quote:I want to say in the 80's it was a more "purple" purple, close to what he have on this board. Go look at the Hodson highlights.
And in the Burrow highlight film, our purple looks super blue at times.
I wonder if part of the issue is the stadium lights. As I remember, back in the 80's those lights were pretty much yellow instead of white. It gave everything a tint, the grass looked like a yellowish green, etc.
You put pure purple under a yellow light, it looks brown. You put blue under it, it looks ... purple.
Related to white and yellow floodlights... I drove a red box-like car in the 80's. I remember going to Godchaux's down on North, during daylight, and the sun went down while I was shopping. I literally couldn't find my car for 30 minutes, because the parking lot lights were yellow. and that made the car look Texas burnt-orange/brown. And since every car had the same shape, I kept walking past it.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 5:06 pm to Scoob
I always love the pissing matches each year when people complain about the sacrilege of altering our “age old and traditional” unis. ...The uniforms have continually evolved over the last 75 years.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 5:07 pm to leftovergumbo
Looking at those pics reminds me that pads (hip, thigh, knee, shoulder) used to be so much bigger and bulky. I don’t NFL players even wear hip pads any more.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 5:14 pm to OchoDedos
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The pretense of gold is ridiculous. If anything, now it's canary yellow and purple. And those colors have become more pronounced over the years.
Natural gold has many shade tho..
Posted on 12/19/19 at 5:16 pm to GumboPot
Paul Dietzel did it.
In 1957.
In 1957.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 5:16 pm to Scoob
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You put pure purple under a yellow light, it looks brown. You put blue under it, it looks ... purple.
The purple we have now is really getting blue.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 5:31 pm to lsupride87
You can also see the all Yellow unis in the black and White pics. That’s not Texas though. Maybe Texas Tech.
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