LSUsports net has a nice article up called From 'Eye of the Tiger': G.E. “Doc” Fenton. This is a third in a series documenting that that 1908 team.
There is a little history nugget buried in this piece that has always fascinated me. I was hoping with LSU having such a strong Latin American Studies department that we would have had some traveling exhibit or conference on this.
Fenton got the ball on the opening kickoff, and instead of returning it, he sent a 60-yard punt downfield. A surprised Baylor player fumbled the boot, and LSU’s Les Stovall picked it up and trotted across for a touchdown in the game’s first 17 seconds. The Tigers went on to win 48-0 as the bookies committed hari-kiri.
That was the game which sent LSU to Cuba on Christmas Day, and a 56-0 massacre of the University of Havana.
LSU fans and footballs in CUBA? Yes the old Bacardi Bowl. The history of that Bowl and the game they played in is pretty amusing and fascinating.
Imagine if Castro has not taken over perhaps we would have a BOWL down there still!!!
Wilki has a nice history of that Bowl here
We really played that game on Christmas of 07 ( first American college team to play on foreign soil) but it was largely the same team.
There is a very good and entertaining read on that LSU game in Havana here at LSU vs. Havana: Making History
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