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They're alot of one, a little of another. Mostly it's just the Fighting
Tigers now, sometimes they're called bayou bengals but I think the football team is considered the Fighting Tigers so that's what they're mostly known as. http://bayoubengals.com/ LOL it's mostly osmosis "Jeanne Hedge" wrote in message ... On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:01:52 -0500, "Gracecat" wrote: FYI.... LSU has always had a tiger in house (At the university) who is named Mike. massive snippage of much interesting information Wow Gracecat, are you an alum or is all this lore something you pick up by osmosis down there? g The Nickname that Stuck In the fall of 1896, Coach A. W. Jeardeau's LSU football team posted a perfect 6-0-0 record, and it was in that pigskin campaign that LSU first adopted its nickname. "Tigers" seemed a logical choice since most collegiate teams in that year bore the names of ferocious animals; however, the underlying reason LSU chose "Tigers" dates back to the Civil War. During the "War Between the States," a battalion of Confederate soldiers comprised of New Orleans Zouaves and Donaldsonville Cannoneers distinguished themselves at the Battle of Shenandoah. These Louisiana rebels had been known by their contemporaries as the fighting band of Louisiana Tigers. Thus, when LSU football teams entered the gridiron battlefields in the fourth year of intercollegiate competition, they tagged themselves as the "Tigers." It was the 1955 "fourth-quarter ball club" that helped the moniker "Tigers" grow into the nickname, "Fighting Tigers." If they're the "Fighting Tigers", then where does "Bayou Bengals" come from? I honestly thought the latter was their nickname. They certainly are called by that name often enough. Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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