Odd factoid from the 1930s

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Talk about a different era of football. Can you imagine a military branch assigning a head football coach to someplace like Alabama today?

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I don't think this would even happened back in that time. I cannot speak to what kind of a connection the University of Alabama has to the military. But I am 100% sure it doesn't come close to LSU. I think 2 years of ROTC was required of all male student all the way up until 1970. Also, other than West Point no school produced as many officers in World War II than Louisiana State University did.

I believe you might find, that this happened in college Baseball as well...

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He isn’t wrong.

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Thanks, dude acted like I was insulting Alabama. What a insecure bunch.

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He isn’t wrong. LSU was a big military school back in the day.

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It was a military school...back before the War BTS...(but wasn’t when WWII started). But so was Alabama....Yankees burned the University because of that.

But this declaration is pure BS. All colleges, including private and religious, required 2 years of ROTC after WWII until about 1970. And LSU had no more officers than any other college in WWII. It was no more “military” than Florida, Georgia, etc. The guy just made up that shite about “being %100 positive” about something he was not positive about. I don’t know why it is LSU people hold the most fantastic ideas about themselves and their State’s place in history... it isn’t just about their football team...it is a personality disorder, grandiose belief..

My father left Alabama his freshman year went to OCS, was later KIA in Normandy. My mother told me the UA campus just emptied of men after Pearl Harbor.

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During World War II, LSU was one of the top four schools producing officers for the U.S. Armed Forces. (The other schools were Texas A&M, West Point, and Annapolis). LSU had more than 5,000 former students serving as officers, including 16 who achieved the rank of Brigadier General or higher. In all, 12,000 individuals from LSU served, and over 500 died in this great conflict.

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Now say you’re sorry

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Thanks, dude acted like I was insulting Alabama. What a insecure bunch.

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Yup, especially him.

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I don't think this would even happened back in that time. I cannot speak to what kind of a connection the University of Alabama has to the military. But I am 100% sure it doesn't come close to LSU. I think 2 years of ROTC was required of all male student all the way up until 1970. Also, other than West Point no school produced as many officers in World War II than Louisiana State University did.

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Why does LSU claim this? 14,000 Aggies served as officers in WW2.

Nice read.

An odd fact from the Civil War.... William Tecumseh Sherman was I believe the First Superintendent at LSU and left to take a command in the Union Army when the War began....He certainly gave Georgia and South Carolina something to think about ...