1944 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs Football Team
The 1944 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference during the 1944 college football season. In their third year under head coach Louis Whitman, the team compiled a 5–4 record. Schedule References Southwestern Louisiana Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football seasons Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football program is a college football team that represents the University of Louisiana at Lafayette at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. Since 1971, the t ...

Louis Whitman
Louis "Louey" Whitman (February 3, 1900 – January 27, 1979) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Lafayette High School from 1928 to 1941 and at the Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) from 1942 to 1945 compiling career college football coaching record of 14–14–2. A native of Logan County, Arkansas, Whitman was a letterman while playing for the Wyoming football team during their 1925, 1926, and 1927 seasons. He next served as head coach of Lafayette High School from 1928 to 1941. Whitman was hired as head coach of Southwestern Louisiana prior to their 1942 season after head coach Johnny Cain and lead assistant Gee Mitchell took leaves of absence to serve in the military during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority ...
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Ruston, Louisiana
Ruston is a small city and the parish seat of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is the largest city in the Eastern Ark-La-Tex region. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 21,859, reflecting an increase of 6.4 percent from the count of 20,546 counted in the 2000 Census. Ruston is near the eastern border of the Ark-La-Tex region and is the home of Louisiana Tech University. Its economy is therefore based on its college population. Ruston hosts the annual Peach Festival. Ruston is the principal city of the Ruston Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Lincoln Parish. History During the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War, word soon reached the young parish near what is now Ruston, that the Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Pacific Railroad would begin to run across north Louisiana, linking the Deep South with the West (the current operator is Kansas City Southern Railway). Robert Edwin Russ, the Lincoln Parish sheriff from 1877–1880, ...
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1944 Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference Football Season
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