Historical Tiger Stadium/Team Photos.

That Spring Hill College team of 1921 was stout.

Thanks for the pics.

great pictures and a question, when was the North End Zone added? I always thought that all the Stadium dorms were built at the same time.

favorite urban legend...supposedly Claire Chennault shipped a P-40 back from China in a crate and this crate was stored underneath Tiger Stadium...

Source
Student dormitories were built into the stadium in 1931.

"In 1936 capacity was more than doubled when the north end zone was enclosed with a 24,000-seat addition. Money was not allocated in the state budget for the seating expansion, but money was allocated for dormitories. To bypass the legislature and increase his beloved school's stadium capacity, Governor Huey P. Long ordered that dormitories be built in the stadium, with seating above the student living quarters. Until the early 1990s, the West, North and South Stadium dormitories were featured as part of student housing at LSU."

About that plane though
That's pretty interesting. I couldn't find a reliable source, but I found a comment on this article

"Eric Mingledorff says:
8/7/2012 at 4:03 pm

I hunted for that P-40 in the mid 70's, and heard it was dismantled and stored underneath Tiger stadium. I finally reached a guy, who identified himself as LSU's head of maintainance, and inquired as to where that P-40 went. He got mad and told me it wasn't there, it was none of my business and quickly terminated the conversation. Whoever I spoke to was lying.

I believe the Baton Rouge, destroyer USS Ward Museum group acquired it from LSU later on. My friend, John Fallis, found the airplane and traded the museum for it. It's now in flying condition in south Louisiana."

great pictures and thanks for sharing, here is another thread i remember reading that has more history of Tiger Stadium

A History of Tiger Stadium: Evolution of the Pantheon of Concrete and Steel

These are the best threads. Loving reading about the early days of LSU football.

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So 90 years from now, will it be 192,000? Only time will tell

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OMG....could you imagine upper-upper decks on the east and west...

the one change i'd like to see (but impossible due to the water table) would be to have the field 5 feet or so lower...would make things a lot better for folks down low

toss dive in pic 3?

Great post, thanks for putting up the pics.

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the scale model in the bookstore flown by Mike the Tiger

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So it was flown by the guy the mascot Mike is named after?