https://x.com/howlelujah/status/21159742...9Tgd4&s=20

Wanted to make sure you guys saw this.

Thanks Winston. Man we were young and pretty!

Its always amazing how every play was some version of the option it felt like back then.

(10-31-2026 02:24 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Its always amazing how every play was some version of the option it felt like back then.

We had a converted safety at QB - throwing wasn't his thing. We did lead D1 (University Division) in rushing offense.

It was fun to watch! Even more fun when Lacewell had the Wishbone clicking!

(10-31-2026 07:07 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  It was fun to watch! Even more fun when Lacewell had the Wishbone clicking!

Earl Easley was slick but that 75 team mowed them down.

Easley was the best wishbone QB that Lacewell had.

(10-31-2026 12:17 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  https://x.com/howlelujah/status/21159742...9Tgd4&s=20

Wanted to make sure you guys saw this.

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You gotta love mascot "Jumpin Joe".....LOL! I always thought riding that horse that fast over the football field was damaging the turf.

I remember QB David Hines and that 1975 ASU team. ASU defeated a good LA Tech team that year 30-13, and finished 1975 with an 11-0 record. Tech finished 1975 with an 8-2 record and had beaten ASU 20-7 the previous year. Tech had also won a national championship 1973, so I knew THIS Indian team was special when they smacked Tech around like that.

But this ASU Indian team had a special significance. Despite an 11-0 record and having won a Southland Conference Championship, ASU did not receive a bowl bid, and that's why the Independence Bowl actually came into existence. Local leaders in Shreveport and north Louisiana believed that the Southland Conference Champion was not receiving the respect it deserved in football from the NCAA bowl community, and pledged to do something about it.

So they started the Indy Bowl the very next year (1976) to guarantee that all future Southland Conference Champions would be guaranteed a bowl game in Shreveport's State Fair Stadium.

McNeese State represented the Southland Conference in the very first Indy Bowl (in 1976) and beat the University of Tulsa 20-16, in front of 19,164 fans, including me.

LA Tech defeated the University of Louisville in the 2nd Indy Bowl game 24-14, in front of 22,223 fans.

LA Tech lost to East Carolina in the 3rd Indy Bowl 35-13 in 1978, in front of 31,054 fans and legendary movie actor John Wayne, who received the General Omar Bradley "Spirit of Independence" award.

By now, with attendance growing each year, it was clear the Independence Bowl was here to stay. So, thanks to ASU --and the City of Shreveport-- for giving us the Independence Bowl, which celebrates it's 50th Year of play this December.

(10-31-2026 08:14 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  

(10-31-2026 12:17 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  https://x.com/howlelujah/status/21159742...9Tgd4&s=20

Wanted to make sure you guys saw this.

o
You gotta love mascot "Jumpin Joe".....LOL! I always thought riding that horse that fast over the football field was damaging the turf.

I remember QB David Hines and that 1975 ASU team. ASU defeated a good LA Tech team that year 30-13, and finished 1975 with an 11-0 record. Tech finished 1975 with an 8-2 record and had beaten ASU 20-7 the previous year. Tech had also won a national championship 1973, so I knew THIS Indian team was special when they smacked Tech around like that.

But this ASU Indian team had a special significance. Despite an 11-0 record and having won a Southland Conference Championship, ASU did not receive a bowl bid, and that's why the Independence Bowl actually came into existence. Local leaders in Shreveport and north Louisiana believed that the Southland Conference Champion was not receiving the respect it deserved in football from the NCAA bowl community, and pledged to do something about it.

So they started the Indy Bowl the very next year (1976) to guarantee that all future Southland Conference Champions would be guaranteed a bowl game in Shreveport's State Fair Stadium.

McNeese State represented the Southland Conference in the very first Indy Bowl (in 1976) and beat the University of Tulsa 20-16, in front of 19,164 fans, including me.

LA Tech defeated the University of Louisville in the 2nd Indy Bowl game 24-14, in front of 22,223 fans.

LA Tech lost to East Carolina in the 3rd Indy Bowl 35-13 in 1978, in front of 31,054 fans and legendary movie actor John Wayne, who received the General Omar Bradley "Spirit of Independence" award.

By now, with attendance growing each year, it was clear the Independence Bowl was here to stay. So, thanks to ASU --and the City of Shreveport-- for giving us the Independence Bowl, which celebrates it's 50th Year of play this December.

Tech in Ruston was the 11th win that year - stAte's first in D1, and I think it was La Tech's first too.

The mantra in 75 at stAte was 11-0 and nowhere to go.

And stAte has still never played in the Independence Bowl . . .

By the time we changed to RedWolves Jumping Joe had been retired. Was never a fan of him! My wife graduated from stAte when we were still Indians. A shop in Jonesboro still makes Joe shirts. She requires I buy one when a new one comes out. Oh well...happy wife makes happy life.....

(10-31-2026 08:23 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(10-31-2026 08:14 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  

(10-31-2026 12:17 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  https://x.com/howlelujah/status/21159742...9Tgd4&s=20

Wanted to make sure you guys saw this.

o
You gotta love mascot "Jumpin Joe".....LOL! I always thought riding that horse that fast over the football field was damaging the turf.

I remember QB David Hines and that 1975 ASU team. ASU defeated a good LA Tech team that year 30-13, and finished 1975 with an 11-0 record. Tech finished 1975 with an 8-2 record and had beaten ASU 20-7 the previous year. Tech had also won a national championship 1973, so I knew THIS Indian team was special when they smacked Tech around like that.

But this ASU Indian team had a special significance. Despite an 11-0 record and having won a Southland Conference Championship, ASU did not receive a bowl bid, and that's why the Independence Bowl actually came into existence. Local leaders in Shreveport and north Louisiana believed that the Southland Conference Champion was not receiving the respect it deserved in football from the NCAA bowl community, and pledged to do something about it.

So they started the Indy Bowl the very next year (1976) to guarantee that all future Southland Conference Champions would be guaranteed a bowl game in Shreveport's State Fair Stadium.

McNeese State represented the Southland Conference in the very first Indy Bowl (in 1976) and beat the University of Tulsa 20-16, in front of 19,164 fans, including me.

LA Tech defeated the University of Louisville in the 2nd Indy Bowl game 24-14, in front of 22,223 fans.

LA Tech lost to East Carolina in the 3rd Indy Bowl 35-13 in 1978, in front of 31,054 fans and legendary movie actor John Wayne, who received the General Omar Bradley "Spirit of Independence" award.

By now, with attendance growing each year, it was clear the Independence Bowl was here to stay. So, thanks to ASU --and the City of Shreveport-- for giving us the Independence Bowl, which celebrates it's 50th Year of play this December.

Tech in Ruston was the 11th win that year - stAte's first in D1, and I think it was La Tech's first too.

The mantra in 75 at stAte was 11-0 and nowhere to go.

And stAte has still never played in the Independence Bowl . . .

Wow! It's hard to believe ASU has never played in the Indy Bowl. Hopefully you guys can make that happen soon.

(10-31-2026 08:33 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  By the time we changed to RedWolves Jumping Joe had been retired. Was never a fan of him! My wife graduated from stAte when we were still Indians. A shop in Jonesboro still makes Joe shirts. She requires I buy one when a new one comes out. Oh well...happy wife makes happy life.....

I was a little kid, but I'm pretty sure the Injun riding the horse was called Chief Big Track, as he used to run around the actual track and field track at Kays . . . Indian stadium opened in '74 I think and it didn't ever have a track. But I don't remember his name having changed.

Please correct me if I'm crazy/imagining things.

You are right. The Indian Family just come out on the field before the game. The Indian Brave would dance and plant his spear before the opposing team. Chief Big Track was the the Chief and we had the Indian Princess. Jumping Joe was the logo. He was on the helmet until Lacewell started using the stAte in 1980. Running Joe replaced Jumping Joe as the Indian logo but but was never on the helmet. After Lacewell left during the lost years the Indian Headdress was used as the helmet logo. Thing was awful. In 2008 we became the RedWolves. The stAte logo was used on the helmet for several years.

(10-31-2026 08:23 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(10-31-2026 08:14 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  

(10-31-2026 12:17 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  https://x.com/howlelujah/status/21159742...9Tgd4&s=20

Wanted to make sure you guys saw this.

o
You gotta love mascot "Jumpin Joe".....LOL! I always thought riding that horse that fast over the football field was damaging the turf.

I remember QB David Hines and that 1975 ASU team. ASU defeated a good LA Tech team that year 30-13, and finished 1975 with an 11-0 record. Tech finished 1975 with an 8-2 record and had beaten ASU 20-7 the previous year. Tech had also won a national championship 1973, so I knew THIS Indian team was special when they smacked Tech around like that.

But this ASU Indian team had a special significance. Despite an 11-0 record and having won a Southland Conference Championship, ASU did not receive a bowl bid, and that's why the Independence Bowl actually came into existence. Local leaders in Shreveport and north Louisiana believed that the Southland Conference Champion was not receiving the respect it deserved in football from the NCAA bowl community, and pledged to do something about it.

So they started the Indy Bowl the very next year (1976) to guarantee that all future Southland Conference Champions would be guaranteed a bowl game in Shreveport's State Fair Stadium.

McNeese State represented the Southland Conference in the very first Indy Bowl (in 1976) and beat the University of Tulsa 20-16, in front of 19,164 fans, including me.

LA Tech defeated the University of Louisville in the 2nd Indy Bowl game 24-14, in front of 22,223 fans.

LA Tech lost to East Carolina in the 3rd Indy Bowl 35-13 in 1978, in front of 31,054 fans and legendary movie actor John Wayne, who received the General Omar Bradley "Spirit of Independence" award.

By now, with attendance growing each year, it was clear the Independence Bowl was here to stay. So, thanks to ASU --and the City of Shreveport-- for giving us the Independence Bowl, which celebrates it's 50th Year of play this December.

Tech in Ruston was the 11th win that year - stAte's first in D1, and I think it was La Tech's first too.

The mantra in 75 at stAte was 11-0 and nowhere to go.

And stAte has still never played in the Independence Bowl . . .

Y'all had some studs on the O-Line too!

(11-01-2026 03:46 PM)SlickRick12 Wrote:  Y'all had some studs on the O-Line too!

All-American Guards Ken Jones and T.J. Humphreys paved the way for the rushing attack. Ken went on to be drafted 45th overall to the Buffalo Bills and played 12 years in the NFL. T.J. told NFL teams that he would be going to medical school, so don’t bother drafting him. In case he changed his mind, the Philadelphia Eagles drafted him anyway.

Our mascot situation with the Indian Family changed pretty heavily over the years as Native American Groups started pointing out that we were being a little too cartoonish with the mascots.

Jumpin Joe lasted and then vanished. Indian Brave used to ride out on horseback, but that part stopped probably because of the risks involved with having a live animal on the field. We used to plant a spear at midfield, but that went away. The Indian Family, which was the closest thing we had to a more respectful/pay homage to the Native American tribes who were originally based in this area. But eventually the pressures were too great. (It did last long enough for me to have time to write a research paper in College about the decline in Native American based mascots for Universities and then a further paper on why we needed to change our mascot, so I appreciated the A's)

After the Indian Family retired we replaced it with Doug Funny...aka Red. Who was literally a cartoon character (But worked better with pictures for kids) while maintaining the Indian nickname. By that point things had gotten silly, so we changed to Red Wolves.

I still believe to this day, that changing to Red Wolves was one of the smarter decisions we made as a University. No one else had the mascot at the time and we were able to trademark it and turn it into a marketing tool.

(11-01-2026 07:11 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Our mascot situation with the Indian Family changed pretty heavily over the years as Native American Groups started pointing out that we were being a little too cartoonish with the mascots.

Jumpin Joe lasted and then vanished. Indian Brave used to ride out on horseback, but that part stopped probably because of the risks involved with having a live animal on the field. We used to plant a spear at midfield, but that went away. The Indian Family, which was the closest thing we had to a more respectful/pay homage to the Native American tribes who were originally based in this area. But eventually the pressures were too great. (It did last long enough for me to have time to write a research paper in College about the decline in Native American based mascots for Universities and then a further paper on why we needed to change our mascot, so I appreciated the A's)

After the Indian Family retired we replaced it with Doug Funny...aka Red. Who was literally a cartoon character (But worked better with pictures for kids) while maintaining the Indian nickname. By that point things had gotten silly, so we changed to Red Wolves.

I still believe to this day, that changing to Red Wolves was one of the smarter decisions we made as a University. No one else had the mascot at the time and we were able to trademark it and turn it into a marketing tool.

I've always thought you guys, as well as ULM, did excellent jobs with your new mascot names. They're both unique and I like them both.