Campus 1976 - 77

[alum81]

It is awesome, how far we have come.

[RaginFan2]

The 1971 yearbook had a photo of the stadium finished but it was not finished in time for the 1971 football season. The first season was 1972. This was Russ Failkenberrys last season.

!973 was Faulkinberry's last year. That was my first football season at USL. We went 0-10. Tammariello came in for the '74 season.

[Turbine]

The 1971 yearbook had a photo of the stadium finished but it was not finished in time for the 1971 football season. The first season was 1972. This was Russ Failkenberrys last season.

Weird how new facilities throw a good coach off kilter.

Coincidence, I'm sure.

[Ragin9221]

Thought this was pretty cool. Cajun Field before the Cajun Dome, or the Baseball Field was built.

[facelessjonmoon]

So wait, there was no Cajun Dome BLVD before the Cajun dome was built ?

[Ned Clampett]

Thought this was pretty cool. Cajun Field before the Cajun Dome, or the Baseball Field was built.

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[Turbine]

Thought this was pretty cool. Cajun Field before the Cajun Dome, or the Baseball Field was built.

The baseball stadium wasn't built but there was a baseball field being used by Don Lockwood's teams.

[IHateLaState]

That was my Senior year... Roy Henry and others... should have gone to the Indy Bowl but Rafael Septien missed an extra point against Ryan Street High School... that's an amazing view

[cajunhawk]

Boy...Congress used to be a leisurely stroll through the country.

[Duggie35]

I remember when the USL Farm was located on the property now occupied by the athletic complex, Cajundome, hospital, etc and Congress Street was only a two lane road running through the farm. How times have changed.

[CajunNation]

I remember when the USL Farm was located on the property now occupied by the athletic complex, Cajundome, hospital, etc and Congress Street was only a two lane road running through the farm. How times have changed.

I remember a barn and a white fence.

[HelmutVII]

And Congress street ended at Bertrand. Parking was a mess when it rained. There were tow trucks on duty in the parking lot to pull cars out if they got stuck in the mud.

[Cajun90]

I remember when the USL Farm was located on the property now occupied by the athletic complex, Cajundome, hospital, etc and Congress Street was only a two lane road running through the farm. How times have changed.

We are not that far removed from a 4-way stop at the intersection of Kaliste Saloom and New Flanders road (Ambassador Cafferey).

[HelmutVII]

The old charity hospital was located on St Mary diagonally across from Olde Tyme Grocery. The University traded with the State the property the Charity Hospital was on for the property that UMC is on now. The trade was made with the stipulation that the new hospital would be named University Medical Center. You can imagine the hubbub that caused with the LSU people and the state legislature( They though USL wanted to start a Med School). Sometime about that time Dr Authemant and Dr Oliver decided USL would get the biggest computer available. That's when they got the Honeywell MULTICS computer system. Only about 6 were built at the time. 3 or 4 were at the Pentagon another at MIT and the final one was here at USL. And that was the start of the computer science school. LSU did not have Computer Science at the time but after our school got so big and so good they had to have one too. Imagine that.

[LaCajunsFan]

The old charity hospital was located on St Mary diagonally across from Olde Tyme Grocery. The University traded with the State the property the Charity Hospital was on for the property that UMC is on now. The trade was made with the stipulation that the new hospital would be named University Medical Center. You can imagine the hubbub that caused with the LSU people and the state legislature( They though USL wanted to start a Med School). Sometime about that time Dr Authemant and Dr Oliver decided USL would get the biggest computer available. That's when they got the Honeywell MULTICS computer system. Only about 6 were built at the time. 3 or 4 were at the Pentagon another at MIT and the final one was here at USL. And that was the start of the computer science school. LSU did not have Computer Science at the time but after our school got so big and so good they had to have one too. Imagine that.

Good info, and here is an account of how that happened, that is also a great read:

http://multicians.org/site-usl.html

ETA: it also has a list of the students involved.....it would be really neat if we could get their story, so I wonder if anyone on here happens to know any of them:

"Peter Bahrs, Rose Carinhas, Stan Chesnutt, Ken Clement, Matt Delcambre, Brian Doré, Bryan Durio, Edmund Gallizzi, Ken Horton, Randall Jouett, Craig Martin, Sammy Migues, Lane Robert, Paul Rogers, Robert Sonnier, Johnnie Stafford, Jim Stephens, Bill Tims, Mary Tims, Scott Sheppard, Julie Jackson"