Guest CardAmbassador Posted February 26, 2011 Posted February 26, 2011 'Tooting' my own horn. Not trying to brag too much but I'm the sole person responsible for the great looking Wikipedia article we have and I think it has came in pretty handy these past few months with all of the WAC schools trying to figure out who we are. If you pull up the archived wiki article from a year ago it's terrible compared to what we have now. Quote
Guest bigred360 Posted February 26, 2011 Posted February 26, 2011 Dang, dude you did a great job! I remember the old article and this one is amazing. Quote
Guest CardinalClaw Posted February 26, 2011 Posted February 26, 2011 You should be tooting your horn, you did a great job. Quote
Guest CardAmbassador Posted February 26, 2011 Posted February 26, 2011 Lamar pictures taken before the ladies game wednesday. I was on campus pretty late so the sun starts to set while I'm shooting. I'm definitely going to do this again when the spring sets in. It was also cloudy and icky, but a few of the photos turned out well. Too bad the cherry blossoms died the day before I got a shot of them. Link: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=94316&id=1595712466 Quote
Guest CardAmbassador Posted March 2, 2011 Posted March 2, 2011 Stadium photos coming soon. I think they will be greatly appreciated. Quote
Guest CardAmbassador Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Hey BR360, you posted a link on the Scout:Wac Message board that listed the names of Lamar football players that played professionally, can you find that again? Quote
Guest bigred360 Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 I'll look for it and post it if I do. I'm pretty sure what thread I posted it on. Quote
Guest bigred360 Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Here is the link: http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=451&f=2368&t=7239751&p=1 Quote
Guest CardAmbassador Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 bigred360 wrote: Here is the link: http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=451&f=2368&t=7239751&p=1 Thanks a ton, I'm going to use this to make a wikipedia list of all the LU football players. I might make it a point to do bios for them in the future if I can find them. Quote
Guest bigred360 Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Rush Wood SID at Lamar has been at the university on and off for years. His wife even worked for LU. There is no doubt he can help you get info on the player if you are serious about doing the bios. That might be a lot of work, but with your passion for Lamar I'm sure you are up to it. BTW, I looked at the Lamar University wiki site and it looks great!!! Quote
Guest CardAmbassador Posted June 24, 2011 Posted June 24, 2011 Hey guys I have tinkered around with the Lamar Wiki site again and I created some new things you might want to check out. First I created a List of Lamar University alumni page. It's incomplete at the moment. All major universities have one so I started it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lamar_University_alumni I also created a wiki article for the women's basketball team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Cardinals_women%27s_basketball While I was digging around I found out that Two Ph.D. students have written dissertations over the history of Lamar, One of the student's was from McNeese oddly enough! The other was from U of H. These are very detailed histories of Lamar's earlier years so I'm hoping to write a very detailed history sub section on Lamar's wiki page. Pretty exciting since alot of our history is unknown to many of us, but it will be revived! :) Quote
LUSportsFan Posted June 24, 2011 Posted June 24, 2011 The additions look nice. For Men's basketball, it may be going back, but the Jack Martin years had some really good teams. A lot of the games at McDonald Gym during that era used to be standing room only. The team had a Sports Illustrated article written about it in the 60's. Here's a link to an article in the Beaumont Enterprise a few years ago that recounts the 68-69 team. Link: http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/lamar/article/RUSH-WOOD-Lamar-basketball-enjoyed-fast-start-700000.php I got to see the A&M / Lamar game referred to in the article as a student at A&M. Rush Wood is correct in his statement "...they quieted a stunned crowd in College Station's G. Rollie White Coliseum by strumming Southwest Conference champion Texas A&M, 98-87." I remember telling some of my classmates that Lamar had a good basketball team. A lot of them didn't believe it until they saw it. That was one game where my allegiances were torn in two directions. Quote
D301Bhoys Posted June 25, 2011 Posted June 25, 2011 Do you have citations on those dissertations? I'd be interested in reading them. Quote
Guest CardAmbassador Posted June 25, 2011 Posted June 25, 2011 Do you have citations on those dissertations? I'd be interested in reading them. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/kcl02 They're cited at the bottom of the page. I used Google Scholar to see if I could get a digital copy but there doesn't seem to be one. So there going to be harder to get ahold of than I thought, I will likely have to call the McNeese and UofH Libraries and order a copy. You could do the same. Quote
Guest CardAmbassador Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Cardinals_men%27s_basketball Check out the changes, I added some stuff on Jack Martin. Also a little trivia, how is Dwayne Wade connected to Lamar? Quote
Guest bigred360 Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Cardinals_men%27s_basketball Check out the changes, I added some stuff on Jack Martin. Also a little trivia, how is Dwayne Wade connected to Lamar? Dwayne Wade was recruited to Marquette University by Mike Deane who was later fired and hired by Lamar. Quote
Guest CardAmbassador Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Cardinals_men%27s_basketball Check out the changes, I added some stuff on Jack Martin. Also a little trivia, how is Dwayne Wade connected to Lamar? Dwayne Wade was recruited to Marquette University by Mike Deane who was later fired and hired by Lamar. Yeah just thought that was interesting. I wonder what would have happened to his career if he would have stayed at Marquette? Who knows. Quote
Guest CardAmbassador Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 Do you have citations on those dissertations? I'd be interested in reading them. I'll notify you when I get those dissertations. In the mean time you should read this. It's a pretty detailed history of Lamar. http://72.18.160.32/newsevents/articles/221_1122.htm Quote
LUSportsFan Posted June 27, 2011 Posted June 27, 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Cardinals_men%27s_basketball Check out the changes, I added some stuff on Jack Martin. Also a little trivia, how is Dwayne Wade connected to Lamar? The Jack Martin wiki additions look great. I like the comment about the UH / LU game. I didn't get to attend because I was at A&M at the time, but one of my friends told me about it. He was in the group that had to watch the game on closed circuit. If I recall LU came close to beating UH a few times before, so it made the win a little sweeter. Quote
Guest CardAmbassador Posted June 29, 2011 Posted June 29, 2011 Check out the Lamar University Presidents nav box I made on Lamar Universities Wikipedia Article: Louis R. Pietzsch (1923-1924) · C. W. Bingman (1924-1942) · John E. Gray (1942-1952) · G. A. Wimberly (Interim 1952) · Dr. F.L. McDonald (1952-1967) · Dr. Richard W. Setzer (1967-1969) · Frank Thomas (1969-1972) · John E. Gray (1972-1976) · Dr. C. Robert Kemble (1977-1985) · Dr. Bill Franklin (1985-1991) · Dr. John P. Idoux (Interim 1991-1992) · Dr. William Brock Brentlinger (Interim 1992-1993) · Dr. Rex Cottle (1993-1998) · Dr. William Johnson (Interim 1998-1999) · Dr. James M. Simmons (1999-Present) Probably going to write articles for Dr. Simmons, John Gray, and Dr. McDonald Quote
Guest CardAmbassador Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Wiki articles started for John Gray and Jimmy Simmons: Dr. Simmons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Simmons Dr. Gray: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Gray Will be doing more on these in the future, I wanted to get them started so that others can add to them where they see fit. Here is a really good link that has photos and articles about the old south park junior college, what we now call Lamar University today. :) http://sherrysharp.com/southpark/spn-history-pg.htm If you want to read more on John Gray here is a link: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fgrbs ^^ He has to be one of the most influental men to walk the grounds of Lamar University. Interesting read, check it out. Quote
LUSportsFan Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Thanks for your efforts. Are you sure you weren't a history major? :) The new additions are great! Quote
Guest CardAmbassador Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Thanks for your efforts. Are you sure you weren't a history major? :) The new additions are great! Well History was my first educational passion when I was young. I won several awards in my history classes and finished high school with all of my college credits for History already in hand. That said I'm very balanced educationally. I enjoy, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Literature, History, Political Science and Economics. The only subjects I don't enjoy are "Soft Sciences" such as Sociology. Thanks, for the praise of the articles. I've only been working on Lamar's wikipedia articles for a little over a year and the difference is night and day. In five years we will be on par with UT. Quote
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