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...Baton Rouge, Senator Huey Long sat in a purple & gold-draped box to watch Louisiana State lose its first game of the season against Tulane, an institution which the Kingfish has hated and despised ever since it refused to give him an honorary degree. With three minutes to play and Louisiana State a touchdown ahead, Tulane's Simons caught a lateral pass, ran through the whole Louisiana State team for the score that...
That Louisiana State University really belongs to Huey Long no sensible Louisianan doubts for one moment. As Governor and as Senator, the "Kingfish" has made it his biggest, most expensive plaything. In small part his interest is due to pride in the educational and athletic advantages of his Kingdom. In large part it is due to his personal feud with Tulane University...
...Senator then rushed off to Baton Rouge to address a pep meeting in behalf of his political football team, Louisiana State University. The team was getting ready to trounce George Washington University in Washington, 6-to-0. In its absence, "Kingfish" Long proclaimed that the rally constituted a parish meeting, solemnly had Right Halfback Abe Mickal elected State Senator...
...point was raised that Mickal was a Syrian, under 21, and a resident of Mississippi, hence unable to qualify for the job. The "Kingfish" retorted that his Legislature would seat Senator-elect Mickal and that was all there was to it. "Mississippi has annexed itself to Louisiana," he observed, "anyhow. Napoleon came 'rom Corsica, didn...
Week before the Louisiana State-Vanderbilt football game at Nashville, Senator Huey P. Long generously announced that he would finance the trip for 1,500 cadets, lend $7 to any other Louisiana State student who lacked funds. Purpose of the junket, said the "Kingfish," was to give the university a good name. At a student meeting, he gave out rules: "No liquor . . . no pulling the bell cord. . . . Don't take me lightly...