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Why don’t we claim the 1908 National Championship?
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:39 am
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:39 am
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The Tigers were coached by Edgar Wingard and posted a perfect 10–0 record, outscoring opponents 442 to 11. The team played its home games at State Field and competed as members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA).
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The season was clouded by accusations of professionalism by Grantland Rice and rival school Tulane. Rice claimed V. Smith, C. Smith, Seip, Fenton, Lally, and Gandy were all paid salaries to play football, and that Clarke was a former All-Western player. Amidst fears of many players being ineligible under SIAA rules, most sportswriters instead gave the Southern title to Auburn, and left LSU players off their All-Southern team. A subsequent SIAA investigation cleared LSU of any wrongdoing, but since many publications voted for the SIAA champion prior to the conclusion of the investigation, they did not recognize LSU's title.
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The Tigers have been recognized as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation, and the NCAA recognizes LSU as national champion for that season along with Penn. However, LSU does not officially recognize this season as a national championship season.
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Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:42 am to FT
Pretty crazy not to claim it, it’s a rare air to have a university have 4 national titles in football. Would help open a recruits eyes
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:50 am to FT
quote:So LSU is the anti-Bama?
LSU does not officially recognize this season as a national championship season.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:57 am to FT
They should have claimed it while the men on that team were still alive.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:01 am to FightingTigers1
LSU was retroactively selected as the national champion of 1908 by just the National Championship Foundation.
Michigan was retroactively selected as the national champion of 1903 AND 1904 by the National Championship Foundation and only the National Championship Foundation (just like LSU in 1908) and Michigan claims those 1903 and 1904 national championships as an official championship and flies banners and flags for them.
We all love to make fun of Alabama for how they claim national championships but there’s precedent for claiming NCF titles by major schools.
LSU needs to claim 1908.
Michigan was retroactively selected as the national champion of 1903 AND 1904 by the National Championship Foundation and only the National Championship Foundation (just like LSU in 1908) and Michigan claims those 1903 and 1904 national championships as an official championship and flies banners and flags for them.
We all love to make fun of Alabama for how they claim national championships but there’s precedent for claiming NCF titles by major schools.
LSU needs to claim 1908.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:02 am to The Boat
Claim it LSU. Rant needs to do its work and get LSU brass to claim it
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:17 am to FT
RA to sticky topic and let’s make it happen then! This is what Ghandi was talking about
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:21 am to FT
Because we are better than the inbred sister frickers two states to our east.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:22 am to FT
Was that the year that opponents included the YMCA and NOLA Gymnastics Club?
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:23 am to Double Down
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Because we are better than the inbred sister frickers two states to our east.
There’s a big difference. They claim illegitimate national championships in seasons riddled with losses. That’s why we ridicule them.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:25 am to FT
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:31 am to FT
Championships during segregation are lame just because it wasn’t a true test of best vs best.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:37 am to Brazos
So no team prior to the late 50s could claim a championship due to segregation?
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:40 am to FreeState
I can remember it like yesterday are you kidding me find someone who is alive.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:43 am to FT
Not as insecure as other
Posted on 1/19/19 at 10:04 am to FT
How about write Joe Alleva or something one else that can push this through.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 10:42 am to FT
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The soldiers at Jackson Barracks made the only touchdown scored all season on the Tigers, when their halfback Culligan picked up a fumble and ran it back 105 yards.
So the only TD allowed all season was by the offense
TDs were only 5 pts back then (FGs were 4 points) LSU was up 48-0 before the TD and the game ended 81-5
Posted on 1/19/19 at 10:49 am to Brazos
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Championships during segregation are lame just because it wasn’t a true test of best vs best.
This is dumbest comment I have ever read on this site.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 11:22 am to FT
I posted this a couple of weeks ago, and it was widely downvoted. I'm sure it will be again, but here goes.
We should NOT claim 1908 because:
1) Retroactive championships are complete bullshite. Just because Alabama and Michigan do it, doesn't mean we should, too.
2) The Ivy League was the powerhouse conference back then. The SIAA (predecessor to the SEC) was considered a very weak conference.
3) No one alive at the time believed LSU was better than Penn or Harvard. That would be like saying UCF was better than Alabama in 2017 because UCF was undefeated and Alabama wasn't.
4) Kansas was also unbeaten and untied in 1908. Should they claim it, too?
We should NOT claim 1908 because:
1) Retroactive championships are complete bullshite. Just because Alabama and Michigan do it, doesn't mean we should, too.
2) The Ivy League was the powerhouse conference back then. The SIAA (predecessor to the SEC) was considered a very weak conference.
3) No one alive at the time believed LSU was better than Penn or Harvard. That would be like saying UCF was better than Alabama in 2017 because UCF was undefeated and Alabama wasn't.
4) Kansas was also unbeaten and untied in 1908. Should they claim it, too?
Posted on 1/19/19 at 11:32 am to TxTiger82
don’t forget aTM and auburn
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