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Originally Posted by osubux5600
...LSU will wear its traditional white jerseys ... the Tigers will now get to wear their traditional "home" white jerseys for the contest....
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Since you Buckeye people are so into football tradition and history, I thought some of y'all might be curious to know why wearing our white jerseys during home games is considered "traditional."
This is how the LSU Athletic Dept. explains it:
"The tradition originated when LSU won its first national championship in 1958. Head coach Paul Dietzel had a habit of tinkering with the uniform every year. In 1958, he chose to wear white jerseys for LSU?s home games, and the Tigers subsequently won the national championship. A superstitious man, Dietzel didn?t change the uniform after that season."
Look at LSU's uniform in 1958, as worn by Billy Cannon in these photos below. Notice how it's pretty much the exact same jersey that we wear today, 49 years later. The only major difference is that the numbers (on the shoulders) are above the stripes on the current jersey and below the stripes on the 1958 jersey. In other words, we still pretty much wear the exact same jersey worn by the 1958 team that won LSU's first national championship.
