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Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:34 pm to MandevilleSlim
Centenary's Endowment is $138 million on 630 students. That is insane if you know Louisiana. 630 is a smaller high school. Imagine that small high school being worth $138,000,000. It's all oil money that NWLA fields and Haynesville Shale have made. To put that into perspective on an endowment per student ratio:
Endowment per Student:
Texas A&M - $253,000
Centenary - $220,000
University of Georgia - $44,000
Univ Florida - $43,000
LSU - $22,000
Northwestern St - $2,215
It's at the same level of wealth as a Texas A&M whose vast majority of endowment comes directly from mineral rights they have in West Texas land. I know because I saw some of our royalty checks go straight to them from one of our Loving County wells at a company I worked at 6-7 years ago.
Endowment per Student:
Texas A&M - $253,000
Centenary - $220,000
University of Georgia - $44,000
Univ Florida - $43,000
LSU - $22,000
Northwestern St - $2,215
It's at the same level of wealth as a Texas A&M whose vast majority of endowment comes directly from mineral rights they have in West Texas land. I know because I saw some of our royalty checks go straight to them from one of our Loving County wells at a company I worked at 6-7 years ago.
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 5:58 pm
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:35 pm to lsufball19
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LSU is 3-1-1 all-time against Centenary
Centenary was located in Jackson, LA pre-1900. Centenary while in Jackson, LA in 1894-1896 played just 5 total games, 3 were vs LSU which got blown out, and 2 were verse Clinton and Natchez YMCA. Those were only games they played when campus was located in Jackson, LA. They weren't a program then.
Centenary moved to Shreveport sometime in very early 1900s. They started to field a legit team that started playing SEC schools in the early 1920s. I just counted the Centenary as I know record vs LSU, and that is that it's a Shreveport school, and not 1800s Jackson, LA school.
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 5:40 pm
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:37 pm to SoCalSoonerGrad
That’s right. 
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:38 pm to Saunson69
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Centenary was located in Jackson, LA pre-1900. Centenary in 1894-1896 played 4 games, 3 were vs LSU which got blown out, and 1 verse a YMCA. They weren't a program then. Centenary moved to Shreveport sometime in very early 1900s. They started to field a legit team that started playing SEC schools in the early 1920s.
So you posed a trivia question setting random and misleading criteria making it impossible to answer unless you just guessed random schools?
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:40 pm to lsufball19
Yes, because Centenary as everyone in this region knows it, is a college located in Shreveport. Not Jackson, LA from 1894-1896. Wikipedia shows no team from 1897 to 1921 when they moved to Shreveport and started playing as what we all know as Centenary today. 1894-1896, they only played LSU or a YMCA for just 3 years. Beginning 1923 once moved to Shreveport, they were playing a 10+ game SEC schedule on an annual basis.
Same name, different program really.
Same name, different program really.
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 5:48 pm
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:51 pm to Saunson69
Their game at LSU in 1933 had 18,000 people in attendance. Baton Rouge only had 30,000 people in 1930, which was under half the size of Shreveport then having 77,000 people. Probably because of the oil discoveries in Shreveport around that time. But LSU hosting 18,000 people in attendance on a 30,000 person city is not bad
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 5:53 pm
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:52 pm to Saunson69
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Same name, different program really.
Maybe you should tell them since they claim to be the oldest college in the state of Louisiana
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:54 pm to lsufball19
Yes I have noticed that. Centenary claims to be the 2nd oldest university or college West of the Mississippi River. Some other college in Iowa is the oldest. It moved to Shreveport in early 1900s, but started in Jackson exactly 200 years ago in 1825.
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 5:56 pm
Posted on 8/7/25 at 6:42 pm to Saunson69
Sewanee
Posted on 8/8/25 at 4:27 am to lsufball19
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So you posed a trivia question setting random and misleading criteria making it impossible to answer unless you just guessed random schools?
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:41 am to Saunson69
1-0 vrs. LSU
Not an SEC team (unless recent addition).
Not an SEC team (unless recent addition).
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:50 am to Saunson69
They seem like a better fit for the sec than mizzou.
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