Early 1960's LSU Football Heroes

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There were two episodes like that.

Butch Duhe was a high school football legend in New Orleans who'd quarterbacked Holy Cross in the mid-60s. He was scheduled to be LSU's starting quarterback but passed away.

LSU had earlier recruited an All-State quarterback from Woodlawn High School named Trey Prather. I saw him in a high school playoff game in 1964 and he was impressive. How impressive? He was the starter at Woodlawn ahead of a quarterback named Terry Bradshaw. Bradshaw didn't start for Woodlawn until Prather graduated from high school.

Trey Prather didn't stay at LSU long enough to have a great career. He played QB for a year before leaving school for the Marines and was killed in Vietnam in January, 1968.

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Sammy Grezaffi, White Graves, Karl Dunbar and Al Coffee(sp) are a few others that come to mind from the 60's and early 70's. Also Richard Picou. Mike Anderson and George Bevan made on hell of linebacking trio.

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Nelson Stokely, whose son Brandon is currently in the NFL, was a QB from Crowley who played against (Heisman Trophy winner) Steve Spurrier and the Florida Gators in 1965.

The game was played on a very hot day (102 degrees). LSU seemed to be in the game in the first half but they were out of it by the fourth quarter. On the other hand, Florida seemed invigorated in the second half. Florida won 14-7.

That was the game when University of Florida researchers had introduced Gatorade to its football team.