Stadium 1925: LSU Photograph Collection, RG #A5000,
Louisiana State University Archives, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA.
Albert St. Dizier: Football was a pretty big thing but the stadium in those days was only . . . Was open at both ends and it . . . It only went up about twenty rows up this way and it was down there. We kind of ushered sometimes and when you played in the band, you played . . . The students in those days sat in the middle. And the outsiders had to take the outside seats.
Hebert: Oh, so the students got the best seats.
St. Dizier: Now they put them off on the end where more money coming in over here because it’s . . . And, of course there’re more people involved in this game. You had . . . The teams in those days played both . . . same bunch of men played generally the defense and the offense, you see. So you didn’t have as many football stars as . . . as you have now. You have your kicker now and you have . . . everything else is specialized.
Hebert: Did the band go to all the football games? Would you travel with the team?
St. Dizier: Oh yes. You pretty much went to . . . went to nearly all the basketball games, too. And on the weekends, if you didn’t rate the dance that weekend, you didn’t . . . you [could do a bull session?] any place or you had . . . And also on weekends we did touch football games out on the side and . . . Well we always amused ourselves and there wasn’t an idle moment.
-- Albert St. Dizier, interviewed by Mary Hebert, 1998