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Boxing Milestones Email Dr. Ed Dugas athleticnetwork@louisiana.edu if you have a Milestone/Ragin’ Cajuns First to submit. Please include sport, date, event, etc., source, along with your contact numbers. Click here for the 1938 Boxing Photo Gallery which features Captain Carlo Listi, Coach Mitchell, and the 8-0-2 undefeated team. Click here for the 1940 Boxing Photo Gallery when the team fashioned a 7-1-1 season defeating Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and L.S.U., and avenging its only loss to La. Tech in a return match. Click here for the 1942 Boxing Photo Gallery when the Bulldogs narrowly missed an undefeated season, losing their last match to the U. of Wisconsin before 15,000 spectators. They won the Sugar Bowl Boxing Championship and enjoyed packed crowds at Long Gym. Please check the student attire, as they filled the permanent and moveable bleachers. Captain Donald Harper won the 120 pound at the NCAA championships that season, giving the Bulldogs their second national champion in consecutive years. Click here for the boxing memories of Bob Bass, son of the Bill Bass. Bob was a two-sport letterman at the university and a military veteran who served as Head Golf Coach from 1991-2008. Bob attended boxing matches as a child and his memories are priceless. Click here for the Athletic Network profile of Don Landry. Don is one of our graduates, who blazed a career in athletics which spanned over 40 years, involving leadership at athletics and sports highest levels. After attending a boxing reunion in 2008, he decided to write Boxing - Louisiana's Forgotten Sport - History of High School and College Boxing. It the most comprehensive book written on the subject. After several book signing parties, numerous presentations to clubs and organizations, and attendance at one Louisiana Boxing Reunions, the supply of printed copies were exhausted, and the archives materials for the book were donated to the Louisiana Room of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Not only did Don include the various high school state championship tournaments from 1931-1958, he also included sections for each of the colleges who had boxing teams, including the one at SLI and our outstanding teams, boxers, and coaches. Appreciation is expressed to Don for writing Boxing: Louisiana's Forgotten Sport, for donating his materials to the university, and for providing the Athletic Network with one of the final copies of the book. His labor of love has warmed many hearts and is deeply appreciated.
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