Mississippi State at LSU
Saturday, November 17, 1956 Share
Mississippi State beat LSU 32–13. It was their 49th meeting; after it, LSU led the series 24–20–3 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 60°F, low 42°FAttendance 25,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 18, 1956, page 1
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Maroons Beat Louisiana State BATON ROUGE, La, Nov. Il (P).-Sophomore Billy Stacy pu on a dazzling show tonight, romp’ ing for three touchdowns and setting up two more as Mississippi State bounced. Louisiana State, 32–13. The Maroons’ fleet 178-pound quarterback raced a put back As yards for one score. ran IL yards and 8 yards for two more touch downs, passed % yards for a fourth. and cleverly quarter backed a 42-yard drive for the other score. Stacy, the Southeastern Conference’s leading ground gamer carried 10 times for los yards and completed four of Is passes for II yards. The victory gave Mississippi State a “a Conference record and As overall mark. LSU now has a 0–5 Conference mark and 1T for the season. Mississippi State 1850 6 ~ 8 6–3c Mississippi state scoring: Touchdown Stacy 3 az. run; AS. run; g.. rum Sabbatini “a. rum: Hollingshead (22 pass-run from Stacy. Conversions Tribble Q. Louisiana state University scoring Iouchdowns--Taylor q, plungeJ; WOOD 100. pass-run from Reynolds). CONVEX siOn-Taylor
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.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
LSU 53% to win. Mississippi State won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Mississippi State–LSU gameOfficially, LSU leads 75–36–3; as played, 75–37–3 in the 115 games on file; the official count covers all 117 meetings, counting the 68 since this game.
Around this game
Mississippi State
- Next gameat Ole MissDec. 1, 1956
- SeasonMississippi State in 1956
- ProgramMississippi State history and records
LSU
- Next gamevs. ArkansasNov. 24, 1956
- SeasonLSU in 1956
- ProgramLSU history and records

