1. Davis Grambling's Gridiron Glory, 15; and Grambling State Alumni Foundation, Grambling: Cradle of the Pros (Baton Rouge, LA: Moran Publishing, 1981), I. See also http://www.gram.edu/about/history.asp
2. Woodward C. Vann Origins of the New South, 1877–1913 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1951), 158–60; and Wyatt-Brown Bertram Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), vii, xv–xvi.
3. Insurance Map of Monroe and West Monroe, Louisiana, 1932 (New York: Sanborn Map Co., 1932), Composite, 18:28–30, 19:26; and “Property of the Heirs of William Thomas; Section 76, Township 18N, R4E” (maps) Plat Book, Ouachita Parish, Book 2, p. 2, 12. Ouachita Parish Clerk of Court.
4. Monroe's two dailies, the Monroe Morning World and the Monroe News Star, were not the only newspapers to ignore the game. In fact, Shreveport's black weekly, the Shreveport Sun, would be the only state newspaper to announce the existence of the game. The New Orleans Times-Picayune ignored the game. The Baton Rouge State-Times covered the LSU freshman team in depth, providing sustained analysis of the team's game with Ouachita Junior College, but never mentioned that the city's other team was also in Monroe for the Armistice Day holiday. The Ruston Daily Leader, Lincoln Parish's largest newspaper, mentioned nothing about the game in its Armistice Day coverage. The paper's only Negro coverage on Armistice Day was a crime report recounting the actions of Robert and Bass Henry “negro[es] living in Ward 7, on a charge of stealing hogs.“ New Orleans Times-Picayune, 12 November 1932, p. 9; Rouge Baton State-Times, 10 November 1932, p. 18; 11 November 1932, p. 11; 12 November 1932, p. 8; and Ruston Daily Leader, 10 November 1932, p. 1; 11 November 1932, p. 1.
5. Op cit note 46 for New Orleans university distinction.