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Sorry for the small print, that's the best I could do. Our own Dennis Delaney is in there!
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Tulane 1974 (rated R) :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Very Cool

I'm trying to figure out the starting OL during that season. Just getting some deja vu with the names I remember Bruce and Wayne saying over the radio when I was a kid.
I'm pretty sure Steve Wade was C, and Mike Arthur was starting guard, and Ed Mikkleson was starting T. John Ronquillo sounds familiar, so he may have been the other G.
Who was the other tackle? Were Rick Rutledge and Dennis Delaney starters then? (I know they were later).

The Kicker David Falgoust (who was very good) used to go to all the games, although I don't know if he does anymore.
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tpstulane wrote:Sorry for the small print, that's the best I could do. Our own Dennis Delaney is in there!
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The small print is hard to make out, but every home game had more than 30,000, and three games had 40,000 or more with Ga Tech and LSU drawing better than 65,000. With three or four seasons like that in a row, you wouldn't have a game under 40,000, and you'd likely average 55,000 or more. Throw in a couple bowl wins and a couple top 20 finishes, and you'd easily average 60,000.
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Robert1969 wrote: The small print is hard to make out, but every home game had more than 30,000, and three games had 40,000 or more with Ga Tech and LSU drawing better than 65,000. With three or four seasons like that in a row, you wouldn't have a game under 40,000, and you'd likely average 55,000 or more. Throw in a couple bowl wins and a couple top 20 finishes, and you'd easily average 60,000.
Exactly. And back then it was people that went through the turnstiles "headcount" not "tickets distributed".
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Some may remember this Hall of Fame Cheerleader..........
circa 1973
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I don't see us drawing in the 60s. N.O. is a smaller town, that was a different era in many ways.
But we'll draw well.
Tulane should also draw well in the African American community. As a group, they've never been big LSU fans and while (too) many won't have the means to go to our (or any) games, they like Tulane. And Cowen's/Tulane students' inner city work and work with schools will help too. Note which Council persons and the districts they represent did not go for Guidry's IZD.
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tpstulane wrote:
Robert1969 wrote: The small print is hard to make out, but every home game had more than 30,000, and three games had 40,000 or more with Ga Tech and LSU drawing better than 65,000. With three or four seasons like that in a row, you wouldn't have a game under 40,000, and you'd likely average 55,000 or more. Throw in a couple bowl wins and a couple top 20 finishes, and you'd easily average 60,000.
Exactly. And back then it was people that went through the turnstiles "headcount" not "tickets distributed".
I call BS. I was there.
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tpstulane wrote:
Robert1969 wrote: The small print is hard to make out, but every home game had more than 30,000, and three games had 40,000 or more with Ga Tech and LSU drawing better than 65,000. With three or four seasons like that in a row, you wouldn't have a game under 40,000, and you'd likely average 55,000 or more. Throw in a couple bowl wins and a couple top 20 finishes, and you'd easily average 60,000.
Exactly. And back then it was people that went through the turnstiles "headcount" not "tickets distributed".
I call BS. I was there.
AJ, I was there as well. I have photos that show those some of those crowds, when I get time I'll upload them. Remember Tulane stadium held over 81K. Bigger than the Dome so even half full would look small.
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Starting Lineup OL for Tulane in 1973 was first team C Mike Wade, G's Mike Owens and Mike Arthur, T's Ed Mikkelsen and Harrell, second team OL C either Nix or Gaston, G's Delaney and Lawrence, T's were Korf, Rutledge or Baker
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Tulane-LSU 1973 drew 86,578, then the biggest crowd in the history of College Football below the Mason-Dixon line. From what I was told about that game it wasnt 25K Tulane fans and 60K LSU fans. It was more like 50K Tulane 25-30 LSU, 5K+ miscellaneous. Correct me if I'm wrong, I was born in 1982 and I'm not sure how much of my Dad's nostalgia overtook accuracy over the course of time.
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sader24 wrote:Tulane-LSU 1973 drew 86,578, then the biggest crowd in the history of College Football below the Mason-Dixon line. From what I was told about that game it wasnt 25K Tulane fans and 60K LSU fans. It was more like 50K Tulane 25-30 LSU, 5K+ miscellaneous. Correct me if I'm wrong, I was born in 1982 and I'm not sure how much of my Dad's nostalgia overtook accuracy over the course of time.
You are correct sader. Had Tulane stadium had room there's was demand for about 100K that night.
Look at the Tulane fans after this one..........
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the next afternoon Coach Bennie Ellender was named the United Press International college coach of the year.
On Sunday night he was the guest of honor at a sports banquet at the JCC and I was the chairman. I had the pleasure of telling him...he had been recruiting all day and did not know of his honor.
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jmjclu wrote:the next afternoon Coach Bennie Ellender was named the United Press International college coach of the year.
On Sunday night he was the guest of honor at a sports banquet at the JCC and I was the chairman. I had the pleasure of telling him...he had been recruiting all day and did not know of his honor.
That victory earned Ellender a 10-year contract at Tulane but sadly he was fired 2 years after 5-6 in 1974 and 4-7 in the 1975 season.
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Which season was the one where we were ranked until Foley got hurt and then lost out? I wanna say 74.
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sader24 wrote:Which season was the one where we were ranked until Foley got hurt and then lost out? I wanna say 74.
Yes. We started 5-0 in 1974 then Foley went down with the broken ankle vs Georgia Tech. We then lost the last 6 to finish 5-6.
Also loss a heartbreaker at LSU 24-22 The late Bryan Alexander blocked two punts that day.
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Yes I Dennis Delaney was on the second team that year. But we scored both of the touchdowns. For two years in 1972 and 1973 the second team would play one series the first half and one series the 2nd half not matter what the score. If we had a good drive or scored that we would get another series in either. In 1973 we scored in most of the games. In fact the only time I only played 8 plays(two series) was in Kentucky, Maryland and Houston. So we were a big part of the teams success because our two offenses were totally different. I think it threw off the opponents. Just as they got use to one group of lineman we sent in another group. And half the people in the 1973 LSU game were Tulane fans.
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Most definitely the crowd was at least 50% Tulane fans. A truly great night. Like others I knew we would win as soon as we lost in 1972. Then the game got put back in New Orleans b/c lswho scheduled too many home games. But when we lost to Maryland like that I knew we had been looking ahead and was only reassured that we were going to beat lswho.
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More treasures here. I just uploaded this 1973 season recap video.
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tpstulane wrote:
sader24 wrote:Tulane-LSU 1973 drew 86,578, then the biggest crowd in the history of College Football below the Mason-Dixon line. From what I was told about that game it wasnt 25K Tulane fans and 60K LSU fans. It was more like 50K Tulane 25-30 LSU, 5K+ miscellaneous. Correct me if I'm wrong, I was born in 1982 and I'm not sure how much of my Dad's nostalgia overtook accuracy over the course of time.
You are correct sader. Had Tulane stadium had room there's was demand for about 100K that night.
Look at the Tulane fans after this one..........
Holy shit, some guy gets pummeled at 3:22
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Question,

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How good could we have been with Bennie Ellender?
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We shall expand our on campus stadium , and sooner than you think if the stars align like i think they will.
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Watching the 1973 season recap videos, Steve Foley was the Johnny Manziel for that period.
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These schedules just make me depressed with what could have been.
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