"[20] The 1924 Arkansas–LSU game featured a silver football trophy as part of the dedication ceremonies for the new host field, State Fair Stadium.
[2] After LSU won for the seventh straight time in 1936, that series was discontinued, and Louisiana Tech and NSU returned to playing in the featured game.
Southwestern Athletic Conference schools (usually Southern or Grambling State and Bishop or Wiley colleges) were known to play on Monday, in conjunction with the fair's "Negro Day"[25]—although the 1961 Grambling–Prairie View A&M game was overshadowed by a fan boycott, staged by the Congress of Racial Equality in an effort to encourage improved integration of the fair.
[26] When Texas College withdrew from the SWAC several months later and left the Panthers with only two home games, Prairie View decided to invoke SWAC scheduling rules to move the Grambling series back to on-campus venues, ending its Shreveport fair phase.
The Red River Classic—which had long served as an annual, early-season SWAC game for Grambling at Independence Stadium[34]—was moved, in conjunction with the fair, for the 1999 campaign.
[4] In 1936, LSU chose to install Mike I as its first live bengal tiger mascot at the venue, instead of in Baton Rouge.
[45] The 1945 series of games was historic in that it featured a rare look at multiple service teams of the era,[46] shortly before they were phased out with the end of World War II.
In 1950, Wiley quarterback A. Bolen threw an 82-yard touchdown pass to end William Gray "(l)ate in the fourth quarter" to force a 14–14 tie[47] and hand Grambling one of its few non-wins in the classic over the decades.
In 1968, Bulldog quarterback Terry Bradshaw threw an 82-yard pass to Ken Liberto with 18 seconds remaining to pull out a 42–39 victory over the Demons[45] in what "is generally considered the pinnacle of the State Fair Classic.