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For the months of June/July/August we have selected LSU Legend George Ellwood “Doc” Fenton to be in our All-Star Player Spotlight.

George Ellwood “Doc” Fenton was born April 30th, 1887 in Scranton, PA where he played High School ball.

Doc had a six year playing career 1904-1906 at Mansfield University and at LSU from 1907-1909. Doc played multiple positions but is most well known for his QB role. He scored 132 points in 1908, 59 points in 1909. For his three years at LSU he totaled 298 points. This included 36 touchdowns. His longest field goal was 45 yards. Mansfield had a 16-3-1 record in his time, LSU was 23-5 for his three years. After finishing at Louisiana State, he coached two years, then entered the oil business in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Doc Fenton died February 8, 1968, in Baton Rouge. He was elected to the LSU Hall of Fame in 1937 and to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.

Other Notes *

- Sports writers called him “The Blonde Terror” while his friends called him “doc”

- Edgard Wingar (the head coach at the time) personally went to Docs home to recruit him

- Doc was part of the first US team to play football on away from the north american continent (where lsu beat the cubans 58-0)

LSU Football Team 1907.  (this image is not hosted on our servers)

LSU Before the game  at the Bacardi Bowl in Havana, Cuba

Almendares Park in Havana, Cuba – the bacardi bowl

LSU about to score… again… in Havana. Final score of the Barcardi bowl

LSU 56 Havana University 0

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For the months of April/March and May I have selected Billy Cannon to be our LSU Spotlight player. I hope you enjoy a brief trip back….

Billy Cannon was born August 2 1937, He went to Istruma High School in 1952 and became a star athlete in football and track. In his senior year he was named All-State and All-America while scoring 39 touchdowns for his team. Billy was also pretty quick being able to run the 100 yard dash in 9.4 seconds.

Billy Played for LSU for three seasons 1957-1959. In 1958 Billy Cannon led LSU to its first AP Championship. The only score of the game was a pass from Cannon to Mickey Mangham. To win the game 7-0. In 1959, the year Billy won the Heisman. Billy Cannon returned a punt for 89 yards for a TD. Again.. It was the only TD in the game. Billy had a number of big games that year and in 1959 Billy was honored as the only LSU Football player to ever have their number retired.

Billy played in the American Football League from 1960-1969 and for the NFL in 1970.
He played 133 professional level games and obtained a total of 2449 Rushing yards, 3531 Receiving yards, 1704 yards Kickoff returns and 178 yards on Punt returns.

After Football Billy became a Dentist and was welcomed home by a roaring crowd at tiger stadium. (here at LSUFootball.org… we dont focus on the one or two petty negative things that happened to Billy. In our minds.. he is LSU Football.

Here are some of his stats and awards. as well as some great clips and pictures.

Billy Cannons 1959 Heisman Trophy (displayed at TJ’s Ribs in Baton Rouge, LA.)

Career Highlights

All-State 1955 (Istruma High School)

All-American 1955 (Istruma High School)

AP National Championship (1958 LSU’s First ‘of many…’)

Heisman Trophy 1959 (Fighting Tigers of LSU !! )

Draft – 1960 Round 1 pick 1

AFL All-Star 1961, 1967, 1969

TSN All-AFF 1961, 1967

AFL Rushing Leader 1961

AFL Champion 1961, 1962

133 professional level games and obtained a total of 2449 Rushing yards, 3531 Receiving yards, 1704 yards Kickoff returns and 178 yards on Punt returns.

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