Tulane at LSU

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  Evening star, November 29, 1953, page 63

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  Louisiana State Wins Bayous Battle With .32-13 Rout Of Tulane BATON ROUGE, La, Nov. %. Louisiana State University, paced by the pounding legs of Jerry Marchand and the passing arm of Al Doggett. rolled over Tulane. 32–⁠13, today to win the 51st football battle of the BayouS. The crushing defeat put the finishing touch on Tulane’s worst season in 43 years and left it for the fifth year in a row without a victory over its Baton Rouge rivals. Fullback Marchand, LSU’s top scorer and ground gamer, bat tered the Tulane line for three touchdownS to round out his college career. Quarterback Doggett called the relentless LSU attack, scored one touchdown on a 35-yard runback of a pass interception and passed 20 yards to Half back Charley Oakley for another. Doggetti also kicked two extra points. Tulane finally got into the scoring picture in the final quarter on touchdown bucks of one and four yards by Halfbacks Wayne Wall and Pete Morere, both substitutes. Quarterback Pete Clement, who sparked the two drives with his passing, missed the first extra point but made the second. A crowd of $4,000 shivered under leaden skies to watch the LSU steamroller grind out touch downs in every quarter. LSU ---------- 6 8 IA 6–⁠32 Tulane scoring: Touchdowns--Wall Morere. Conversion-Clement. LSU scoring Touchdowns-March (3), Doggett, Oakley. Conversions-Doggett 81.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Officially, LSU leads 69–⁠22–⁠7; as played, 63–⁠20–⁠7 in the 90 games on file; the official count covers all 98 meetings, counting the 47 since this game.