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The LSU Tigers football program, also known as the Fighting Tigers, represents Louisiana State University in the sport of American football. The Tigers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). As of the end of the 2. LSU has compiled 7. NCAA Division I FBS history, and the fourth most of any SEC team, behind Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia.
The Tigers also have the 1. LSU has won three National Championships: in 1. LSU won the BCS National Championship in 2. Oklahoma in the Nokia Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, and the 2.
BCS National Championship Game (2. Ohio State Buckeyes with a 3. BCS to win multiple BCS national titles. LSU has been featured in a game with ESPNCollege Game. Day on location a total of 2.
Baton Rouge a total of 1. The Tigers have now made at least one appearance on the show every season since 2. In recent years, LSU has had a high number of players drafted into the National Football League (NFL).
As of the beginning of the 2. NFL season, there were 4. LSU players on active rosters in the NFL, the most of any college program.[3]History[edit]1. Louisiana State University (LSU) played its first football game in school history on November 2. Tulane in the first intercollegiate contest in Louisiana. The game sparked a rivalry between the Tigers and the Green Wave that has lasted generations.
The Tigers were coached by universityprofessor Dr. Charles E. Coates, known for his work in the chemistry of sugar.
Future Louisianagovernor. Ruffin G. Pleasant was the quarterback and captain of the LSU team. In the first game against Tulane, LSU football players wore purple and gold ribbons on their uniforms. According to legend, purple and gold were chosen because they were Mardi Gras colors, and the green was sold out.[n 1] The rules of play in 1.
LSU achieved its first victory by beating Natchez Athletic Club 2. Samuel Marmaduke Dinwidie Clark has the honor of scoring the very first touchdown in LSU history.
The first football game played on the LSU campus was at State Field on December 3, 1. Mississippi. LSU's only touchdown in that game was scored by the head coach, Albert Simmons.[5] This was the first year of play for William S. Slaughter who lettered as an end for 5 years (1.
Slaughter was LSU's first five time football letterman. By 1. 89. 5, LSU had its first win in Baton Rouge. The 1. 89. 6 team was the first to be called the "Tigers" and went undefeated, winning the school's first conference championship in the school's first year as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), the first southern athletics conference. Coach Allen Jeardeau returned for his second but final year at LSU in 1. Baton Rouge. A yellow fever outbreak throughout the South caused the postponement of LSU's classes starting, and the football season being cut back to only two games. Another outbreak of yellow fever similar to the one in 1.
LSU to play only one game in 1. By the time LSU was able to play its only game of the season, Allen Jeardeau had departed from the school as head football coach, and no provision had been made to replace him. The job of coach then fell to the team's captain, Edmond Chavanne. New coach John P.
Gregg led the Tigers to a 1–4 season in 1. Sewanee. The only wins were in an exhibition game against a high school team—which LSU does not officially record as a win—and against rival, Tulane. Building the program (1. Chavanne was rehired in 1.
He was replaced by W. S. Borland as head coach in 1. After a 2. 2–2 loss to Tulane, LSU protested to the SIAA and alleged that Tulane had used a professional player during the game. Several months later, the SIAA ruled the game an 1.
LSU.[6] The seven- game 1. Tigers and also featured the most amount of games on the road. The 1. 90. 3 season broke the previous season's record, with nine games.
Dan A. Killian coached the team from 1. Running back René A. Messa made the All- Southern team in 1. Edgar Wingard coached the team in 1. In 1. 90. 7, LSU became the first American college football team to play on foreign soil in the 1. Bacardi Bowl against the University of Havana on Christmas Day in Havana, Cuba. LSU won 5. 6–0. John Seip ran back a 6.
The 1. 90. 8 team posted an undefeated 1. Quarterback. Doc Fenton led the nation in scoring with 1. He threw a 4. 0- yard touchdown pass to Mike Lally in the win over Auburn.[7] The National Championship Foundation retroactively awarded 1. LSU the national championship though it is not claimed by LSU. This season also led to an SIAA championship; but was clouded by accusations of professionalism from rival school Tulane.[8] Auburn and Vanderbilt were among those listed as alternative conference champions. Tigers. After a strong 1.
SIAA champion Sewanee, the team lost some star power with Lally, Seip, and center Robert L. Stovall all graduating.[9] In 1. Pat Dwyer developed a "kangaroo play" in which back Lawrence Dupont would crawl between offensive lineman. Tom Dutton's legs; supposedly very effective in short yardage situations.[1. Fullback. Alf Reid made the All- Southern team in 1. LSU's largest loss margin came on October 3. Texas A& M in Dallas, Texas.
In 1. 91. 6, three different coaches led the team for parts of the season. The coaches were E. T. Mac. Donnell, Irving Pray, and College Football Hall of Fame coach Dana X. Bible. Due to World War I, no games were scheduled or played for the 1. LSU. Pray also served as head coach full seasons in 1. LSU. In 1. 92. 3, Mike Donahue left Auburn to become the seventeenth head football coach at LSU.
Tiger Stadium, with an original seating capacity of 1. Donahue retired after the 1. Vanderbilt coach Dan Mc. Gugin recommended Russ Cohen for the LSU coaching job, which he accepted in 1. That season, offensive tackle. Jess Tinsley made the All- Southern team. In 1. 93. 1 LSU played its first night game in Tiger Stadium, a 3.
Spring Hill. In Biff Jones' first season as head coach, the 1. Southern Conference championship in its last season as a member of the conference. The season included a five- game winning streak in which LSU outscored its opponents by a combined 1. Moore and Tinsley era (1. Under head coach Bernie Moore, LSU won their first Southeastern Conference (SEC) Championship finishing with a 5–0 conference record and 9–2–0 overall in 1.
LSU played in their first Sugar Bowl game, falling to #4 TCU 3–2 at Tulane Stadium. The Tigers and Horned Frogs both took home the Williamson Poll national championship, which is not claimed by LSU.
The team was led by Abe Mickal and Gaynell Tinsley, cousin of Jess. The 1. 93. 6 team won the school's second SEC Championship finishing with a 6- 0 conference record and 9–1–1 overall. The Tigers finished runner- up to Minnesota in the AP Poll. LSU won the Williamson Poll and Sagarin Ratings national championships, which are not claimed by the school. LSU's largest margin of victory, and most points scored in a football game came on November 2. Tiger Stadium against USL (University of Southwestern Louisiana, now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). The final score was LSU 9.
USL 0. The 1. 93.