Dead Letters: A Tulane Football Story
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Please enjoy this Split Zone Duo Patreon special from our miniseries "Dead Letters." Initially released in July 2022, the three-episode series is a scripted-ish look at college football programs that had enormous success or potential and then ran into problems of either their environment or their own making. The first episode is about the Tulane Green Wave, who were once a contemporary of (and a threat to) LSU in Louisiana college football. Then one university president set about changing that. Here is the story of what happened before and after, along with an interview with Tulane historian Lenny Vangilder.
If you enjoy this episode, you might enjoy more of what we do at splitzoneduo.com. Links to episodes 2 and 3 on Nebraska and Arkansas follow. Production: Anthony Vito.
Nebraska: https://www.patreon.com/posts/szd-presents-2-70074913
Arkansas: https://www.patreon.com/posts/szd-presents-3-71339968
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| 0:00.0 | Alex Kersner here from Split Zone Duo. Thanks very much for being here. Happy |
| 0:04.0 | whenever you are listening to this. So our podcast has two feeds. One is the |
| 0:09.6 | free show or the big show that we record every week, sometimes twice a week, |
| 0:13.4 | and which we will keep doing for hopefully many years to come. |
| 0:16.4 | The other feed that we have is our subscription feed, |
| 0:18.8 | which is hosted on Patreon. |
| 0:20.1 | I know you've heard us talk about it quite a bit. |
| 0:21.7 | Thank you so much to all of you who are already there. |
| 0:24.0 | It's at splitzone duo.com. And the Patreon feed is kind of like a sandbox where we do lots of different stuff that you can listen to for as little as five dollars a month. |
| 0:33.7 | We do a lot of podcasts there, things like interviews, Q&As, episodes where we have subscribers, |
| 0:38.5 | vote on the topic of the show. |
| 0:40.4 | It's been a joy and one of our favorite shows that we have done for subscribers there is a three-part miniseries three parts so far called dead letters. It is a set of podcasts about individual schools that have these fascinating beautiful |
| 0:54.0 | and ultimately sad football stories to tell. |
| 0:57.0 | The first one that we did is about the two-lane green wave, |
| 1:00.0 | a football program that appeared in a sugar bowl in 1939 and then finally got back to the New Year |
| 1:06.2 | six inner tier level of bowls in 2022. |
| 1:11.1 | We did two more episodes in the opening run of these shows about Nebraska and |
| 1:15.3 | Arkansas. Those are linked in the show notes here as well. We hope you like this |
| 1:19.8 | one. If you do you can get lots more like it on Patreon at splitzone duo.com roll |
| 1:25.2 | wave and roll the tape. |
| 1:28.6 | Hi let's go back to 1949. |
| 1:35.0 | Tulane and LSU are about to play a game at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. |
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