Jennifer Abraham: Well, how important was football to LSU?
Alfred Glassell: When I was there, that was something we’d go to. We got free tickets. The students got free tickets to go and . . . I don’t know, I’d guess we’d see three or four thousand people to a game. [laughing] That was a . . . that was a pretty big . . . a big deal. Football players themselves were . . . They were a little rough and tough and . . . I mean, they were not heroes and the rest of the students couldn’t really decide, you know, whether they were one of them or not.
We had this huge man named Jack Torrance that they . . . biggest football player of all times, they’d got some place. I don’t know where they got him, but . . . And they were very disappointed in him because he was so much bigger than everybody, he was afraid to . . . he might hurt ‘em. And so, he kept up his part of the line alright, but that was about it. Football wasn’t like it is today, those boys.
-- Alfred Glassell, interviewed by Jennifer Abraham, 2005