Cadets loading tiger onto train: Department of Military Science Records,
RG #A0602, Louisiana State University Archives, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA.
One of the highlights of football was LSU took a trip to Indiana, I forgot the year but it must have been about 1925 or ‘26 or something [it was 1924]. But we played Indiana [University] and of course the student body couldn't go, but they had a place downtown and also in the community club where somebody called the game and we . . . The first play of the game, LSU fumbled the football and Indiana made a touchdown. But after that, we made a comeback and won the game by nineteen to seventeen or something like that.
When the team got back to Baton Rouge . . . The railroad station was at the foot of North Boulevard just near the Mississippi River. It’s now the Louisiana Arts and Science Museum. Oh, Baton Rouge went absolutely wild. The students were all so wild. And we just decided to have a holiday and we didn't need any encouragement because we just did it anyhow. And we marched down Third Street yelling and hollering and everybody in Baton Rouge just joined in. Another trip, [in 1931] Huey Long decided he was going to fix it so the boys could . . . the student body could follow the team to play Army in New York.
-- Jesse Coates, interviewed by Scott Purdy, 1993