WITH LEATHER HELMETS...

Y'all know that I love my LSU Tiger football.

Man, I wish we had Doc Fenton right now...we really need a quarterback. It would be kinda cool to watch a movie star-type play with a leather helmet today. I wonder if those behemoth defensive linemen would slow down, or speed up... Here are some great photos of football stars in the leather helmet days. Take a look at 'em...trust me, you'll be glad you did!

Good article for all LSU fans...and really for college football fans everywhere.

Excerpt from the book Eye of the Tiger by Marty Mule’

“Doc” was his name and football was very definitely his game.

It’s a name that will live as long as his game is played at LSU.

George Ellwood “Doc” Fenton was an extraordinary athlete with matinee idol looks. Known as the “Artful Dodger” on the fanciful sports pages of the day, and at other times called “the Kandy Kid,” Fenton was universally known as “Doc” because his father traveled as a singer with an old time Indian medicine show.

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Consider this: The Tigers, in an era of the five-point touchdown, were actually close to achieving “point-a-minute” status. LSU scored 442 points in 450 minutes, and surrendered only one touchdown in their 10-0-0 season. Even a safety LSU gave up was hardly earned. It came at Auburn, and Fenton said, “I was kicking from behind my own goal, and an Auburn tackle broke through to block it. The ball was bouncing around, so I picked it up and was getting ready to run it out when a fan reached over the rope and cracked me over the head with a cane. It knocked me cold.”