(12-17-2012 10:13 PM)TampaKnight Wrote:  

That picture is priceless! Tulane thinking they were the suriviors when it was them who were the was sinking. Sorry Wave fans. That's just too funny.

(12-17-2012 10:16 PM)MetroMemphis Wrote:  

(12-17-2012 10:13 PM)TampaKnight Wrote:  

That picture is priceless! Tulane thinking they were the suriviors when it was them who were the was sinking. Sorry Wave fans. That's just too funny.

ummm, that has nothing to do with them leaving the SEC. I believe that was their schedule for that year.

What is Stanford doing on the boat?

(12-17-2012 10:17 PM)EDLUVAR Wrote:  What is Stanford doing on the boat?

it is the mascots of the teams they played in 1961. Va Tech, Clemson, and Miami werent in the SEC either.

Tulane has a ton of these. always cool to reflect :) leave the smack talk outta this one please lads

As mentioned above, it was all the opponents on Tulane's schedule for 1961. Stanford, Virginia Tech (VPI), Miami, and Clemson were the OOC games, and the rest were SEC opponents. Looked it up, and Tulane only beat Virginia Tech and Vanderbilt to finish 2-8 for the year. Should've played more schools starting with 'V'!

(12-17-2012 10:23 PM)SMUPhil Wrote:  As mentioned above, it was all the opponents on Tulane's schedule for 1961. Stanford, Virginia Tech (VPI), Miami, and Clemson were the OOC games, and the rest were SEC opponents. Looked it up, and Tulane only beat Virginia Tech and Vanderbilt to finish 2-8 for the year. Should've played more schools starting with 'V'!

The bowl game against the Fightin' Amazons of Vassar wouldve been epic.

All of the old programs were like this.

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(12-17-2012 10:17 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  

(12-17-2012 10:16 PM)MetroMemphis Wrote:  

(12-17-2012 10:13 PM)TampaKnight Wrote:  

That picture is priceless! Tulane thinking they were the suriviors when it was them who were the was sinking. Sorry Wave fans. That's just too funny.

ummm, that has nothing to do with them leaving the SEC. I believe that was their schedule for that year.

The picture was meant to be of Tulane surviving and the rest sinking, but it turned out to be the other way around.

(12-17-2012 10:28 PM)MetroMemphis Wrote:  

(12-17-2012 10:17 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  

(12-17-2012 10:16 PM)MetroMemphis Wrote:  

(12-17-2012 10:13 PM)TampaKnight Wrote:  

That picture is priceless! Tulane thinking they were the suriviors when it was them who were the was sinking. Sorry Wave fans. That's just too funny.

ummm, that has nothing to do with them leaving the SEC. I believe that was their schedule for that year.

The picture was meant to be of Tulane surviving and the rest sinking, but it turned out to be the other way around.

Really? ZOOOOOMMERRGGAAWWWWDD

You really are a master of perception.

(12-17-2012 10:28 PM)MetroMemphis Wrote:  

(12-17-2012 10:17 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  

(12-17-2012 10:16 PM)MetroMemphis Wrote:  

(12-17-2012 10:13 PM)TampaKnight Wrote:  

That picture is priceless! Tulane thinking they were the suriviors when it was them who were the was sinking. Sorry Wave fans. That's just too funny.

ummm, that has nothing to do with them leaving the SEC. I believe that was their schedule for that year.

The picture was meant to be of Tulane surviving and the rest sinking, but it turned out to be the other way around.

Boy, nothing gets by you. Not to mention that wasn't the point of this thread to begin with.

In the 60's-80's era of the Southwest Conference, the artist Dirk West did tons of these cartoons for the game programs and newspapers. Each mascot had some sort of goofy cartoony look, quite the opposite of the "bad-ass-ness" every school tries to go for today. I prefer the light-hearted approach.


Note the "neiman marcus" collar on the SMU Mustang, a reference to the Dallas store

I like the picture. Talking a little smack - nice depictions of the mascot of each opponent. Having some fun.

We had a lot of program covers like that, as did many teams.

This was the era of athletics deemphasis for Tulane. It was unilateral disarmament as you almost had to be a Tulane quality student who could also play football.

There were exceptions like Richie Petibon and Tommy Mason, both had illustrious NFL careers.

It was in this era (1960?) that the Wave played LSU and was down 6-0 at half, only to lose 62-0.

After years of being completely outmatched in the SEC, Tulane went indy. We finally decided to compete, hired Jim Pittman and went to our first bowl (in over 20 years) in 1970.

The next 20 years would be respectable as we went to five bowl games in that time.

(12-17-2012 10:36 PM)DrBox Wrote:  I like the picture. Talking a little smack - nice depictions of the mascot of each opponent. Having some fun.

We had a lot of program covers like that, as did many teams.

That picture has a lot of similarities to some of the John Chase program covers that were popular in New Orleans and other southern universities through the 50s and 60s. It has his humor and wit; I wonder if it's one of his drawings.

(12-17-2012 11:30 PM)oldtiger Wrote:  

(12-17-2012 10:36 PM)DrBox Wrote:  I like the picture. Talking a little smack - nice depictions of the mascot of each opponent. Having some fun.

We had a lot of program covers like that, as did many teams.

That picture has a lot of similarities to some of the John Chase program covers that were popular in New Orleans and other southern universities through the 50s and 60s. It has his humor and wit; I wonder if it's one of his drawings.

It looks like a Chase. I have a few of the old Chase programs that I bought off of Ebay. Those were great drawings.

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