portable lights

[dahmer17]

1982 portable lights were brought in for the LSU game. Lights were added in 1986. Was there another game played under portable lights? My memory is poor

 

[Maroonthirteen]

It seems that the 1984 LSU game was under the lights too. However I can't say for sure. I know we won. 16-14.

Oh yeah, Artie Cosby's 54 yard game winner v Memphis st was at night in 1985.

 

[Bill Shankly]

It seems that the 1984 LSU game was under the lights too. However I can't say for sure. I know we won. 16-14.

Oh yeah, Artie Cosby's 54 yard game winner v Memphis st was at night in 1985.

I was at the '84 LSU game. Afternoon game, standard for the time 1:30 KO. I was on the sidelines with a camera for that one. That was FUN! I think 1985 the first year for the real lights.

 

[DAWGS1.sixpack]

LSU game in ‘82 was the only night game with portable lights

 

[braddog30]

I watched the 82 game at my home. For the longest time I thought it was the first ever night game at Scott Field. But, it wasn’t. It was just the first one in a long long time. I have a photo of the stadium right after the west side (bottom tier now) was built. I don’t know the year, but you can see the light poles around the field.

 

[Maroonthirteen]

I was at the '84 LSU game. Afternoon game, standard for the time 1:30 KO. I was on the sidelines with a camera for that one. That was FUN! I think 1985 the first year for the real lights.

Thanks! Really digging through the memories.... I believe Orlando Lundie had a big game. I can't remember if Don Smith was hurt or Emory was playing both. I remember a play where Lundie starts one way, LSU has him hemmed up and he reverses field and out runs them around the other end for a big gain or maybe TD.

Also, wasn't the permanent lights up for the 85 season before they completely finished construction of the west upper deck? I recall a full season of going to games and marveling at the progress of the upper west side with each game. I was a young boy at the time.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

We won’t need lights much this season.

 

[Dawgpile]

I watched the 82 game at my home. For the longest time I thought it was the first ever night game at Scott Field. But, it wasn’t. It was just the first one in a long long time. I have a photo of the stadium right after the west side (bottom tier now) was built. I don’t know the year, but you can see the light poles around the field.

You might want to double check that photo, it's probably of a stadium that looks similar to Scott Field. '82 was the first night game.

 

[The Peeper]

Musco Lighting (still in business, best there are) brought in huge truck mounted telescoping lights for that game. It was so damn cold that day and I had a date w/ a girl from Eupora that was in an art class I had to take. She was standing on the row below me and I was above her w/ my arms around her. She was shivering and I said are you cold? She replied, "yep I'm shaking like a ********". Funny what you can remember after 40 years, almost every detail of that date. I knew it was going to be a good day after that comment........

 

[thekimmer]

It seems that the 1984 LSU game was under the lights too. However I can't say for sure. I know we won. 16-14.

Oh yeah, Artie Cosby's 54 yard game winner v Memphis st was at night in 1985.

That 27-24 LSU game was the first night game at Scott Field. Dana Moore kicked the winning FG. I was a student at State then and was there.

 

[dahmer17]

Musco Lighting (still in business, best there are) brought in huge truck mounted telescoping lights for that game. It was so damn cold that day and I had a date w/ a girl from Eupora that was in an art class I had to take. She was standing on the row below me and I was above her w/ my arms around her. She was shivering and I said are you cold? She replied, "yep I'm shaking like a ********". Funny what you can remember after 40 years, almost every detail of that date. I knew it was going to be a good day after that comment........

did you end up marrying your date?

 

[The Peeper]

It only lasted a few months, she was extremely fun, but extremely cra cra. Found out after awhile from some mutual friends she was a pill popper that supported her habit by stealing meds from the nursing home where she worked. That explained to me why one date she was bouncing off the walls and a real ball of energy and others could barely hold her head up.