Marvin Stewart, Former Player, playing both offense and defense

Marvin Stewart: LSU Photograph Collection, RG #A5000,
Louisiana State University Archives, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA.

 

Marvin Stewart: And as I say, having to play sixty minutes and having to . . . We had no specialists to snap the ball back for long punts, short punts, or no T-formation. We run from a single wing and you had to get the ball up out of the water and lead the tailbacks as they would take their steps. And then, the rules of the game, if you went out during a quarter you couldn’t come back in until the next quarter. So that’s why most of us had to play . . . especially in close ball games, play the whole ball game. And up until towards the end of my senior year I was the only center they had. It seemed that way, the amount that I played.

Scott Purdy: Were you a better center or a linebacker?

Stewart: Well, I was a better both of them. [Purdy laughs]

-- Marvin Stewart, interviewed by Scott Purdy, 1993