re: History Trivia Question

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You are right Dad. Eraste Austin. 6'2" 250 FB.

I just reread the story and it was only 88 degrees and 70% humidity. He had a heart attack while jogging back to the locker room after drills. Team members said he showed no signs of duress. Very sad. He was apparently well liked and a good kid too.

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Good kid, it was 2001....

RIP EA

As mentioned earlier Butch Duhe died suddenly the week of LSU's season opener in 1970.

Mississippi State had a player, Rodney Stowers, die of complications a few days after he broke his leg in a game vs Florida in 1991.

Tennessee had two players killed in a car wreck in 1966. Tom Fisher,who was an All-SEC LB and John Crumbacher were killed south of Knoxville returning to school from Spring Break. Tennessee had three assistant coaches killed when their car was hit by a train during the middle of the 1965 season:



LSU had a player, Naeshall Menard, alledgely commit suicide prior to the 1998 season.

Vanderbilt had a player, Kyle Gullahorn, fall out of a window near an elevator and die of his injuries in 1997. Vandy had a starting running back, Kwane Doster shot to death during Christmas break in his home town of Tampa in 2004.

Kentucky had a player , Artie Steinmetz, killed when a fellow player, Jason Watts crashed his vehicle after a night of drinking after a game which killed another young man,too. Since alcohol was the primary reason for the wreck, the "Beer Barrel" awarded to the Kentucky-Tennessee winner in football was abolished the following year.

Alabama and LSU each had a player drown the Spring after their senior season, Richard Grammer for the Tide in 1970 and Carl Otis Trimble at LSU in 1977.

And of course, Ole Miss' Chuckie Mullins died two years after his hit in the 1989 Vanderbilt game resulted in paralysis.

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And of course, Ole Miss' Chuckie Mullins died two years after his hit in the 1989 Vanderbilt game resulted in paralysis.

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Just that fast, everything changes. From what I've read about Mullins he was a top notch guy.

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You are right Dad. Eraste Austin. 6'2" 250 FB.

I just reread the story and it was only 88 degrees and 70% humidity. He had a heart attack while jogging back to the locker room after drills. Team members said he showed no signs of duress. Very sad. He was apparently well liked and a good kid too.

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Eraste was from Lafayette. He'd just graduated from STM in May and was going through his first preseason with Florida. You'd be hard pressed to find a single person that ever met him that wouldn't genuinely tell you that he was one of the nicest people they've ever met. Always had a smile on his face and never had a bad word to say about anyone. He came from one of the best and most loved families in Lafayette. He fought and hung on for a week before he finally passed. A truly tragic loss.

Might seem a bit picky but "trivia" as a title of the thread does not fit. Nothing trivial about the loss of young men way before their time.

A couple more kids that played LSU Football, people might remember these two: Chris Beard and Drew Hixsons kid (He played WR and transfered to another school). Both were injured at one time. Beard as passed away.