1897_LSU_Tigers_football_team

1897 LSU Tigers football team

1897 LSU Tigers football team

American college football season

The 1897 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University (LSU) during the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Coach Allen Jeardeau returned for his second but final year at LSU in 1897 for two games in Baton Rouge. A yellow fever outbreak throughout the South caused the postponement of LSU's classes starting and the football season being cut back to only two games.

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References

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    "Baton Rouge Was Outclassed". The Times-Picayune. New Orleans, Louisiana. January 4, 1898. p. 9. Retrieved January 13, 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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    "LSU Tigers Football | Fanbase is your source for sports news and athlete information". Archived from the original on July 21, 2015. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  3. [3]
    Hardesty, Dan. "LSU: The Louisiana Tigers". The Strode Publishers. Huntsville, Alabama. 1975. P. 334-345.


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