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re: 1908 National Champions
Posted on 11/21/07 at 12:09 pm to wallowinit
Posted on 11/21/07 at 12:09 pm to wallowinit
Coach Wingard career record isn't 40-10-2, that is what the College Football Data Warehouse had at one time.
Go to the page now, I had them update it when I found his record at Susquehanna; where he played and later coached off and on.
His overall record is 70-33-6
Go to the page now, I had them update it when I found his record at Susquehanna; where he played and later coached off and on.
His overall record is 70-33-6
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Posted on 11/21/07 at 12:11 pm to wallowinit
MSU should claim the 1940 championship, we won the orange bowl that year abd went 10-0-1
Posted on 11/21/07 at 2:19 pm to tigger1
Thanks for the update!!! I edited Coach Wingard's Wikipedia article to reflect the updated stats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Wingard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Wingard
Posted on 11/21/07 at 2:21 pm to wallowinit
Who cares nothing should count before 1950
Posted on 11/21/07 at 2:22 pm to TIGERECRUITER
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Who cares nothing should count before 1950
So if LSU was ranked #1 in the very first AP Poll (like they deserved) in 1936 instead of #2, you wouldn't claim it?
Posted on 11/21/07 at 2:26 pm to itawambadog
Has any third party ever claimed the 1940 Miss State team was national champs??? I have no idea and that is why I'm asking. I understand the shots at Bama and Ole Miss, but alot of schools do this. I'm just guessing they haven't. I would think if any third party said State had won a national title ya'll would be claiming it.
Posted on 11/21/07 at 2:28 pm to TIGERECRUITER
quote:Who cares? Some of us sure do! LSU football is an interesting and compelling story that, in fact, predates 1950.
Who cares nothing should count before 1950
I happen to find it fascinating to learn about the teams from 1893 to 1949, which is exactly HALF of all the LSU football history!
Posted on 11/21/07 at 2:59 pm to WikiTiger
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Here's who we played that year....not exactly the hardest in terms of strength of schedule. Haha
Hey! We played Auburn, the Official SIAA Champions that year, at Auburn, and won easily, 10-2. The only reason they scored those 2 points was because some a-hole Auburn fan knocked me out with a cane before I was able to punt out our end zone. fricking Auburn fans, huh?
To say that we couldn't have beaten those pansies from Penn is ridiculous. Our team was the first national championship team from the South. All the rest had come from the Ivy League and the Patriot League, and maybe a couple from Michigan and Chicago.
Posted on 11/21/07 at 3:00 pm to JPinLondon
I think the early days of Tiger football are very interesting. 
Posted on 11/21/07 at 3:00 pm to CajunT
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Why don't we list the 1908 National Championship. Coach Wingard went 10-0. Here is the entire story.
Bless your heart. I was a "beast" that year!
Did you know that the LSU regular season scoring record from 1908 still stands to this day?
Posted on 11/21/07 at 3:02 pm to TIGERECRUITER
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Who cares nothing should count before 1950
Yeah, and some people say nothing before the 1984 anti-trust case should count either. You know what I say to them?
Posted on 11/21/07 at 3:03 pm to Skeeter 79
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I think the early days of Tiger football are very interesting.
Yes, people (cough, Tulane and Auburn fans, cough) claimed I was a professional and cheat, but I was innocent of all charges. I was innocent, I tell ya!!!
"I am not a crook." -- Doc Fenton
Posted on 11/21/07 at 3:04 pm to Doc Fenton
Also, did you know that LSU won 22 straight games in Baton Rouge back then? That record also still stands.
Posted on 11/21/07 at 3:05 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Because we're not Bama, USC or Ole Piss
Fixed it
Posted on 11/21/07 at 3:26 pm to Doc Fenton
Hey Doc, why don't you go edit your Wikipedia page and add some pertinent (sourced) info?? hehe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Fenton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Fenton
Posted on 11/21/07 at 3:27 pm to Lil Man
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Here's who we played that year....not exactly the hardest in terms of strength of schedule. Haha
Looks like a Kansas schedule to me, so maybe we should have one the National Championship...
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that means 4 safeties: give up 0 touchdowns, 1 field goal, and 4 safeties all year.
I could be wrong, but I think 1908 was prior to the scoring changes that we have today. I couldn't find the link, but the scoring used to be very different and it changed a few times. I am only 24 so that was just a few years before my time.
This post was edited on 11/21/07 at 3:38 pm
Posted on 11/21/07 at 3:33 pm to Meursault
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Allowed 11 total points all year though... thats impressive!!!
Jackson Barracks must have run the spread offense on them to score 5 ....
Posted on 11/21/07 at 3:54 pm to TigahRag
Our 1908 championship is as real as any of the pre-1935 championships.
Posted on 11/21/07 at 4:08 pm to CajunT
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Why don't we list the 1908 National Championship.
According to Pete Finney in "The Fighting Tigers" it was indeed a very good team with very good players and that was a legitimate schedule that they rolled through. The problem was players may have been professionals, and not students.
Auburn was awarded the Southern Championship that year even though we beat them because of the allegations of paid players.
Posted on 11/21/07 at 4:13 pm to CarrolltonTiger
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According to Pete Finney in "The Fighting Tigers" it was indeed a very good team with very good players and that was a legitimate schedule that they rolled through. The problem was players may have been professionals, and not students.
Auburn was awarded the Southern Championship that year even though we beat them because of the allegations of paid players.
Page 148 of the 2007 LSU Football Media Guide states that the 1908 team was the SIAA champion: https://www.lsusports.net/src/data/lsu/assets/docs/fb/pdf/07guide137-195.pdf?SPSID=27815&SPID=2164&DB_OEM_ID=5200
But page 150 doesn't even mention the confernce championship.
Weird.
This post was edited on 11/21/07 at 4:15 pm
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