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kfo9494 said:
Here is one-- the only thing I can tell you about this pic is it is at Bryant-Denny in 1984. Someone may have the exact game and date.
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That narrows it down to SW Louisiana (9/22), Vanderbilt (9/29) and Penn State 10/13)--we only played three per year in Bryant-Denny back then. The other team is wearing gold pants,so that eliminates Penn State. My guess is VU and a 21-30 loss! Do you really want that picture?

It's hard to believe that we didn't play a game in BDS past mid-October. It's also something to see how small the stadium was compared to now. Strange, it didn't seem that small when I was a student in the '70s! :wink:
 
That would be La. Lafayette. We won 37-14. The others were Penn St. and Vandy.
Correction: It would probably be Vandy based on color, unless SW La. had different colors than La La.
 
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kfo9494 said:
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WOW!
 
PaulD said:
That narrows it down to SW Louisiana (9/22), Vanderbilt (9/29) and Penn State 10/13)--we only played three per year in Bryant-Denny back then. The other team is wearing gold pants,so that eliminates Penn State. My guess is VU and a 21-30 loss! Do you really want that picture?
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1FitToBeTide said:
That would be La. Lafayette. We won 37-14. The others were Penn St. and Vandy.
Correction: It would probably be Vandy based on color, unless SW La. had different colors than La La.
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That is the Vanderbilt game in that picture, not Southwestern Louisiana. Look close enough and you can see some black in their uniforms, and it is the black and gold of Vandy. Southwestern never wore black and gold.

Also, if you look closely enough, you can see a QB scrambling in that picture, and that QB is Vince Sutton. That was a couple of games before he got benched for Shula.
 
Here is an old one of Shula when he was starting as a true freshman in 1984. I'm pretty sure it's against Cincinnati. It's either them or MSU, and I don't remember MSU wearing jerseys with the funky shoulder stripes.

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Here is one of Perkins and Yankee legend Joe Dimaggio palling around before the 1986 Ohio State game:

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Want an old photo? Bet you cannot find one older than this one...

This is a photograph that appeared in an old issue of the Corolla, and it is a photograph of a sketch done by an artist depicting the ruins of campus right after the Civil War. This photo in particular is the Rotunda in 1865 after Sherman and his troops burned the entire campus to the ground during his March to the Sea.

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Not trying to hijack this thread, but I have a correction.

The campus was burned except for 4 building in 1864, not 1865. And it wasn't Sherman. He wasn't even close to Tuscaloosa. March to the Sea was from Chattanooga to Atlanta to Savannah, then up to North Carolina. Not part of that campaign at all. Hood was the closest, and that was Florence area. Can't recall off the top of my head who was in command through Tuscaloosa. Union army was in Northport and the few Southern troops in Tuscaloosa burned the bridge that lead to the road downtown. Took a week or so, but the Union army marched into downtown, then right up what is University Ave. I believe the mayor had some of the town and university spared. Only 4 building survived, President's mansion, Clark Hall, Gorges House and one other.

Sorry, History major, '97.
 
PattheCatinSaudi said:
Croxton burnt the University as part of Wilson's Raid into Alabama and Georgia. The fourth building which was not burned was the small round guard house over by the Library.
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Croxton's Raiders burned the campus. The four buildings left standing were the Gorgas House, the Little Round House (the Jason's Shrine), the Observatory, and the President's Mansion.

I heard a rumor that they had planned to burn the President's Mansion but his wife stopped them by telling them it was a private home and they had no business burning it...can anyone confirm??
 
On second thought, I believe you guys are right. I suppose I was just associating the entire scorched earth strategy itself with Sherman, giving him responsibility for the whole thing, but I forget that more were involved than him.

At any rate, I'm not sure about the President's Mansion and the story behind that. There must be some sort of story, though, as to why it was saved. Seemingly, that would be one of the places you would definitely burn.
 
BigEasyTider said:
Here is an old one of Shula when he was starting as a true freshman in 1984. I'm pretty sure it's against Cincinnati. It's either them or MSU, and I don't remember MSU wearing jerseys with the funky shoulder stripes.

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Actually, I think MSU did have those silly stripes about then. Also, I think the game against Cincinnati was at Riverfront Stadium which in those days would still have had Astroturf.

1984 was Shula's sophomore season. Perkins put him in for one series in one game in 1983, apparently without really thinking about it. Wonder what kind of 1987 season we'd have had with an experienced QB?
 
BigEasyTider said:
Here is an old one of Shula when he was starting as a true freshman in 1984. I'm pretty sure it's against Cincinnati. It's either them or MSU, and I don't remember MSU wearing jerseys with the funky shoulder stripes.

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That is Mississippi State. They had the stripes and letters 'MSU' in a diagonal line on their helmets.
If I recall that was a hard fought game. We escaped Jackson with another close win.
 
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