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LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers
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The LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers are the athletic teams representing Louisiana State University, a public four-year coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. LSU competes in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association as a member of the Southeastern Conference, LSU fields teams in 21 varsity sports. The 9 mens teams play baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, swimming & diving, tennis, indoor track & field, and outdoor track & field. The 11 womens teams play basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field, LSU athletics has many traditions associated with its sports programs. Based on winning percentage, the athletics program is consistently one of the best in the nation. LSU has also won 47 team national championships, placing them 5th all-time in total national championships, traditional rivals in football include long running rivalries with the Ole Miss Rebels and Tulane Green Wave. More current football rivalries include the Alabama Crimson Tide, Arkansas Razorbacks, Auburn Tigers, Florida Gators, Mississippi State Bulldogs and its official team nickname is the Fighting Tigers, Tigers or Lady Tigers. The Lady Tigers nickname is used only in sports that have teams for men and women—specifically basketball, cross country, golf, swimming & diving, tennis. In 1955, the LSU fourth-quarter club added the word Fighting to the nickname thus becoming Fighting Tigers, the nickname was first coined in 1896 after an undefeated football season. The nickname is a throwback to the Civil War fame of a New Orleans infantry company and they fought so fiercely in General Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia that they, and eventually all other Louisiana troops, became known as Louisiana Tigers. The schools mascot is Mike the Tiger and the school colors are royal purple. Keeping with the French/Cajun character of South Louisiana, LSU support can be seen by its spelling of Go Tigers as Geaux Tigers. LSU sponsors teams in nine mens and twelve womens NCAA sanctioned sports,43 were bestowed by the NCAA, as the NCAA does not award college football national championships at the Division I FBS level. LSU ranks in a tie for sixth all-time in total NCAA championships, ^ The NCAA does not award a national championship in Division I FBS football. Instead, polls were used to determine national champions, in this case, the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll, the two biggest selectors at the time, awarded LSU the national championship. This championship is not recognized by the NCAA because the championship was won without participating in an NCAA recognized event or tournament, ^^ The NCAA does not award a national championship in Division I-FBS football. In 1998 major Division I-FBS conferences came together to create the Bowl Championship Series in an effort to establish a legitimate national champion. LSU won the 2003 BCS national championship and the 2007 BCS national championship and these championships are not recognized by the NCAA because the championships were won without participating in an NCAA recognized event or tournament
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Louisiana State University
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Louisiana State University is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, LSU is the flagship institution of the Louisiana State University System. In 2015, the university enrolled over 26,000 undergraduate and over 5,000 graduate students in 14 schools, several of LSUs graduate schools, such as the E. J. Ourso College of Business and the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, have received recognition in their respective fields of study. LSUs athletics department fields teams in 21 varsity sports, and is a member of the NCAA, the university is represented by its mascot, Mike the Tiger. Louisiana State University Agricultural & Mechanical College had its origin in land grants made by the United States government in 1806,1811. It was founded as an academy and is still today steeped in military tradition. In 1853, the Louisiana General Assembly established the Seminary of Learning of the State of Louisiana near Pineville in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana. Modeled initially after Virginia Military Institute, the institution opened with five professors and nineteen cadets on January 2,1860, the original location of the Old LSU Site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. On January 26,1861, after only a year at the helm, the school closed on June 30,1861, with the start of the American Civil War. During the course of the war, the university reopened briefly in April 1863, the losses sustained by the institution during the Union occupation were heavy, and after 1863 the seminary remained closed for the remainder of the Civil War. Following the surrender of the Confederates at Appomattox Court House on April 9,1865 and these cannons had been captured from Confederate forces after the close of the war and had been used during the initial firing upon Fort Sumter in April 1861. The cannons are still displayed in front of LSUs Military Science/Aerospace Studies Building, the seminary officially reopened its doors on October 2,1865, only to be burned October 15,1869. On November 1,1869, the institution resumed its exercises in Baton Rouge, in 1870, the name of the institution was officially changed to Louisiana State University. It temporarily opened in New Orleans, June 1,1874 and this prompted the final name change for the university to the Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. On June 7,1925, Oscar B, turner, a professor of agronomy, was murdered by an axe-wielding assailant on campus. On April 30,1926, the present LSU campus was formally dedicated, prior to this, LSU utilized the quarters of the Institute for the Deaf, Mute, and Blind. Land for the present campus was purchased in 1918, construction started in 1922, the campus was originally designed for 3000 students, but was cut back due to budget problems
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Baton Rouge is the capital of the U. S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city. It forms the seat of East Baton Rouge Parish and is located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. As the Capital City, Baton Rouge is the hub for Louisiana. The metropolitan area surrounding the city, known as Greater Baton Rouge, is also the second-largest in Louisiana, the urban area has around 594,309 inhabitants. Baton Rouge is an industrial, petrochemical, medical, research, motion picture. The Port of Greater Baton Rouge is the tenth largest in the United States in terms of tonnage shipped, the Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta. This allowed development of a business quarter safe from seasonal flooding, in addition, the city built a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the riverfront and low-lying agricultural areas. The city is a rich center, with settlement by immigrants from numerous European nations. It was ruled by seven different governments, French, British, and Spanish in the era, West Floridian, United States territory and state, Confederate. Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to 12000 –6500 BC based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the 4th millennium BC. Eastern Muskogean began to diversify internally in the first half of the 1st millennium AD, at the time, the region appeared to be occupied by a collection of moderately-sized native chiefdoms interspersed with autonomous villages and tribal groups. French explorer Sieur dIberville led a party up the Mississippi River in 1699. The explorers saw a red pole marking the boundary between the Houma and Bayogoula tribal hunting grounds, see also Red Sticks for the ceremonial use of red sticks among the Muscogee. The location of the red pole was presumably at Scotts Bluff and it was reportedly a 30-foot-high painted pole adorned with fish bones. The settlement of Baton Rouge by Europeans began in 1721 when a military post was established by French colonists. Since European settlement, Baton Rouge has been governed by France, Britain, Spain, Louisiana, the Republic of West Florida, the Confederate States, and the United States. In 1755, when French-speaking settlers of Acadia in Canadas Maritime provinces were driven into exile by British forces, popularly known as Cajuns, the descendants of the Acadians maintained a separate culture. During the first half of the 19th century, the city grew steadily as the result of steamboat trade, Baton Rouge was incorporated in 1817
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LSU Tigers baseball
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The LSU Tigers baseball team represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I college baseball. The team participates in the West Division of the Southeastern Conference and it is one of the elite college baseball programs in the nation, ranking seventh all-time with 17 College World Series appearances and second all-time with six national championships. The Tigers play home games on LSUs campus at Alex Box Stadium/Skip Bertman Field, during the programs first thirty seasons, LSU had a total of 15 head coaches. No coachs tenure lasted longer than two seasons, with the exception of C. C, stroud, who was head coach for eight seasons. Stroud coached LSU from 1914–1921 and had a record of 73–58–5. The program won at least ten games during four of his eight seasons as head coach, in 1927, Harry Rabenhorst became head baseball coach and became the longest tenured head baseball coach in LSU history. Rabenhorst began his career at LSU in 1925 as the coach of the mens basketball team. As baseball coach, he won two SEC baseball titles and was named SEC Coach of the Year in 1939 and 1946, Rabenhorst coached the baseball team from 1927 until 1942 when he left to serve in World War II. When he returned, he coached the baseball team from 1946 until 1956. He finished his coaching career with a record of 220–226–3. Later, as an athletic department administrator, he became the athletic director in 1967. In 1938, LSUs new baseball stadium, referred to as either LSU Diamond or LSU Varsity Baseball Field, the stadium was later renamed Alex Box Stadium for Simeon Alex Box, an LSU letterman who was killed in North Africa during World War II. A. L. Swanson During Rabenhorsts absence serving in World War II, the Tigers won the 1943 SEC Championship under Swanson. Raymond Ray Didier was head coach at LSU for 7 seasons from 1957–1963 and he had an overall record of 104–79. He coached the 1961 team to the SEC championship and he left LSU to become Athletic director and head baseball coach at Nicholls State University. From 1964–1983, LSU was led by three head coaches, from 1964–1965, Jim Waldrop coached LSU for two seasons and had a 17–24 record. Jim Smith was head coach for thirteen seasons from 1966–1978 and he finished with an overall record of 238–251. When he left LSU after the 1978 season, he had the most wins of any coach in program history
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Joe Adcock
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Joseph Wilbur Billy Joe Adcock was a major league baseball player and manager in the Major and Minor Leagues. He was best known as a first baseman and right-handed slugger with the powerful Milwaukee Braves teams of the 1950s, a sure-handed defensive player, he also retired with the third highest career fielding percentage by a first baseman. His nickname Billy Joe was modeled after Vanderbilt University basketball star Billy Joe Adcock and was popularized by Vin Scully and he was signed by the Cincinnati Reds, but Ted Kluszewski had firm hold of the teams first base slot. Adcock played in left field from 1950 to 1952, but was unhappy and demanded a trade, on July 31,1954, Adcock accomplished the rare feat of homering four times in a single game, against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. He also hit a double off the top of the wall to set a record for most total bases in a game that stood for 48 years, until broken by Shawn Green in 2002. Another notable home run was the blast that ended the duel between Lew Burdette and Harvey Haddix on May 26,1959, in which Haddix took a perfect game into the 13th inning. In 1956, he finished second in the National League in home runs, runs batted in, following the season he was replaced as Cleveland manager by Alvin Dark. Adcock managed two years in the minor leagues before settling down at his 288-acre ranch in Coushatta to raise horses. He died in Coushatta at age 71 in 1999 from Alzheimers Disease
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Alvin Dark
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Alvin Ralph Dark, nicknamed Blackie and The Swamp Fox, was an American Major League Baseball shortstop and manager. He played fourteen years for five National League teams from 1946 through 1960, Dark was named the major leagues 1948 Rookie of the Year after batting.322 for the Boston Braves. Dark was an All-Star for three seasons and he hit.300 or more three times while playing for the New York Giants, and became the first NL shortstop to hit 20 home runs more than once. His.411 career slugging average was the seventh highest by an NL shortstop at his retirement, after leading the NL in putouts and double plays three times each, he ended his career with the seventh most double plays and tenth highest fielding percentage in league history. He went on to become the manager to win pennant championships managing both National and American League teams. Dark was born in Comanche, Oklahoma, Dark attended LSU in 1942 and was a football standout there as well as a baseball player. During World War II, he transferred through the V-12 program to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana and his football skills were evident there as well as he quarterbacked SLI to an undefeated season in 1943 and a New Years Day victory in the Oil Bowl. This led to his getting drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1945 NFL Draft, after serving in Asia during the war, however, he came home and chose baseball.167 in the World Series loss to the Cleveland Indians. He was traded after the 1949 season, which turned out to be a boon for the Giants, Dark was immediately named team captain by manager Leo Durocher, and had several great seasons in New York. He followed up with seasons hitting.301 and.300 in 1952-53 and he was the NLs starting shortstop for the All-Star game in 1951,1952 and 1954. In 1955 he was awarded the first Lou Gehrig Memorial Award, given to the player who best exemplified Gehrigs character and integrity both on and off the field. In June 1956 he was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in a deal, he continued to hit well. Dark had a role in one of baseball historys weirdest plays and it took place during a game played on June 30,1959, between the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs. Stan Musial was at the plate, with a count of 3-1, bob Andersons next pitch was errant, evading catcher Sammy Taylor and rolling all the way to the backstop. Umpire Vic Delmore called ball four, but Anderson and Taylor contended that Musial foul tipped the ball, because the ball was still in play, and because Delmore was embroiled in an argument with the catcher and pitcher, Musial took it upon himself to try for second base. Seeing that Musial was trying for second, Dark ran to the backstop to retrieve the ball, the ball wound up in the hands of field announcer Pat Pieper, but Dark ended up getting it back anyway. Absentmindedly, however, Delmore pulled out a new ball and gave it to Taylor, Anderson finally noticed that Musial was trying for second, took the new ball, and threw it to second baseman Tony Taylor. Andersons throw flew over Tony Taylors head into the outfield, Dark, at the same time that Anderson threw the new ball, threw the original ball to shortstop Ernie Banks
