1973 NCAA TULANE vs LSU FOOTBALL PROGRAM HISTORIC UPSET 14 - 0 NEW ORLEANS, LA

Description

DECEMBER 1, 1973 NCAA TULANE GREEN WAVE versus LSU LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY FIGHTING TIGERS FOOTBALL GAME PROGRAM HISTORIC UPSET 14 - 0 NEW ORLEANS, LA.   !!!
1973 NCAA TULANE GREEN WAVE versus LSU FIGHTING TIGERS FOOTBALL GAME PROGRAM HISTORIC UPSET 14 - 0.   !!!
THIS GAME WAS PLAYED SATURDAY DECEMBER 1st 1973 AT OLD TULANE SUGAR BOWL STADIUM.    TULANE WON THIS GAME 14 TO 0 AND SHUT OUT THE LSU TIGERS IN A BIG HISTORIC UPSET !
PLEASE VIEW THE PICTURES I UPLOADED; AS THEY ARE PART OF THE DESCRIPTION.    WHAT YOU SEE IN THE PICTURES IS WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE.
THIS WOULD BE AN AWESOME CONVERSATION PIECE FRAMED AND DISPLAYED IN A MANCAVE, OFFICE, SPORTS ROOM OR SPORTS THEMED RESTAURANT OR BAR !
PLEASE LOOK AT THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS GAME IN THE STORY BELOW:
Looking back on Tulane's 1973 football win against LSU 40 years later
It's hard to imagine these days what the LSU-Tulane football rivalry was like 40 years ago. In the hours before the 7:30 p.m. kickoff, traffic around the old Tulane Stadium on the Green Wave's Uptown campus snaked into paralysis.
Tulane fans, who trudged up to the stadium, were yoked with 24-straight joyless encounters in the "Battle for the Rag"—the title of the in-state series between the two teams. LSU had won or tied every game against Tulane each year since Nov. 27, 1948.
But that Tigers streak didn't take anything off the heat of the rivalry. It consumed the Big Easy during game week.
Former Tulane sports information director Bill Curl said he got the idea of how intense the rivalry was after attending a men's club meeting in the city.
"One side of the room was all decorated in green and one side was all decorated in purple and there was a line down the middle and they were really getting after each other across the aisle," Curl recalled. "I went up to one guy and said, 'This is a really good idea to do this but what about the guys that don't care?' He looked me dead in the face and said, 'What do you mean?' That told me that if you lived in this city that week you picked sides. You had to go with one of them. It was fun, it was really a kick."
The numbers backed up the anecdote.
"Long before the last stragglers in the record-breaking crowd of 86,340 made their way to their seats, the old stadium was rocking with noise and excitement," Will Peneguy of the Times-Picayune wrote for the Dec. 2, 1973 edition.
It was the largest crowd to gather for a night football game ever at that point in time.
The game was ruled by defensive stops and heavy crowd emotion. A packed press box shared the mood, Curl said.
"The press box was jamming about 210 people," Curl said. "It was an open-air press box. You very much felt the emotion of the crowd."
And the fans ripped, roared and moaned as the teams struggled to move the ball against each other. Even then-Gov. Edwin Edwards was there, spending the first half with the LSU fans and the second half with the guys and gals in Olive and Blue.
When Tulane made the final stop in its 14-0 victory that ended LSU's streak, Green Wave fans cried, cheered and some just sat stunned. Tulane had finally earned the state's bragging rights.
"It was emotional. We were split 50-50 with LSU fans and Tulane fans," Curl said. "After the game, most of the Tulane fans stood there and cheered for another hour. The morning afterward, 6:30 in the morning ... there were people in the stadium who came back in and sat in the same seats they sat in the night before."
Even Curtis Johnson, Tulane's current coach, was pulling for the Green Wave. He grew up in the River Parishes.
"I was an underdog and I would say Tulane was always the underdog so I went for Tulane," Johnson said. "I call my son opposite man, so I was opposite man back then."
Back then, most everyone had an opinion. These days, the younger generation New Orleanians often root for both LSU and Tulane – unthinkable for the older generations who remember seeing the yearly rivalry play out like a city war on Saturdays.
"I was listening to the radio and at that time they had a traffic report from a plane and the guy in the plane was a Tulane fan and the guy down on the ground who was talking to him at the radio station was an LSU fan," Curl recalled. "They talked more about the game then they did about the traffic, it was really funny. It was fun."
But it's unlikely the city will ever see such a dramatic split again. It's possible, though, Curl said.
"It can happen but it will take a long time," Curl said. "That was something that developed over years and generations in traditions and those things don't come back easily. But certainly there are a lot of people who still get excited about it if the two of them were even to play in an obscure sport. But certainly the baseball rivalry is good but to bring back that whole city-wide feeling? The city has changed. It's not so dominated by Tulane and LSU people as it was back then so it would be wonderful if it could, it would be great but it will take a while."
The teams haven't played since 2009. The series, which the Tigers lead 69-22-7, broke off after LSU wanted all the remaining games to be played in Baton Rouge. It bought out Tulane to break the contract and guaranteed one future game in New Orleans. But the schools haven't agreed to that date yet, putting in idle the series (broken along the way) that began in 1893.
Johnson said he is open to resuming the rivalry but said his rebuilding job is ongoing
"LSU, they've gone in that direction with what they do and how they are doing it," Johnson said. "They've gone in a very high, high dollar, high direction. We have to start catching up. We have to start catching up with players sooner or later. We're getting our own stadium like them. We have to start catching up.
"I don't want to say, here comes this big challenge with LSU – that's not where we are right now, we're just trying to win a game here," Johnson said. "It's going to take a while to really get back to catching them because if you look at back then, LSU and Tulane were recruiting the same guys. Tulane was in the SEC but now, it's a little bit different so we have some ground to make up. But we're starting to gain some ground."
USED BACK COVER DAMAGE & GENERAL & EDGE WEAR -- PLEASE SEE PHOTOS & MAKE YOUR OWN DETERMINATION AS TO CONDITION
FEEDBACK:
I WILL LEAVE POSITIVE FEEDBACK AFTER YOU THE BUYER HAVE LEFT POSITIVE FEEDBACK FOR ME (AFTER HAVING RECEIVED THE ITEM AND BEING SATISFIED WITH IT!)
TERMS OF SALE:
·
PAYPAL ONLY –
All payments must be received within 8 days of auction end.
·
USA SHIPPING COST ON THIS ITEM IS .95.
·
INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING – will be through E-BAY'S GLOBAL SHIPPING PROGRAM ONLY !
·
ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL BEFORE BIDDING.