Louisiana Tigers

Louisiana Tigers
LSU played their first football game in 1893 and lost to Tulane. The score was 34-0, an instate rivalry was born; and the tiger was officially adopted as their mascot.
LSU played Tulane in Baton Rouge Saturday night, December 11, 1911. The game was scoreless until the fourth quarter, when LSU had the ball on Tulane’s twenty-four yard line. On the first play of the final quarter, LSU quarterback, L. Dupont kept the ball, running around Tulane’s left end, gaining fifteen yards. LSU had a first and goal; the football rests on Tulane’s nine-yard line. On the very next play LSU snapped the football directly to Evans; and the halfback followed his blockers, this time, around Tulane’s right end for the score.
Pandemonium reigned when Evans crossed Tulane’s goal line. Hats and pendants were thrown high into the air. The deafening noise lasted for five minutes. The six thousand spectators cheered with horns, cowbells, bugles, drums and every noise-making device imaginable.
Dupont, the quarterback, kicked the point after touchdown, (PAT) and the extra point was good. The score was 6-0. Back then; a touchdown was worth five points, until 1912, when it was changed to six points.
The tigers were able to keep the greenies scoreless; and this was LSU football’s first win in six years against Tulane. The final score was 6-0; and LSU posted an overall record of 6-3.
In 1859, William Tecumseh Sherman, accepted a job as the first superintendent of Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy at Pineville, Louisiana.
Before the outbreak of the Civil War, Sherman resigned his position and returned to the North. After hearing of South Carolina’s secession from the United States, Sherman nearly perfectly described the four years of war to come.
On October 15, 1869, the Pineville campus was destroyed by fire. Two weeks later, on November 1, classes resumed in Baton Rouge; and in March of 1870, the Seminary officially changed title to Louisiana State University (l’Universite’ de l’Etat de la Louisiane.)LSU tigers adopted the tiger nickname in honor of the fighting tigers, a band of Louisiana men that distinguished themselves on the field of battle during the Civil War between the states. The fighting tigers trained at Camp Moore, in east Louisiana’s Tangipahoa Parish. It was the largest confederate training base in the state; and Confederate President, Jefferson Davis specifically chose the site. The Louisiana Tigers developed a reputation as being fearless and hard-fighting shock troops. And now, nearly 150 years later, the nickname “Louisiana Tigers” lives on with the athletic teams of LSU.