Mickey Mangham

Mickey Mangham

Manghan's game winning catch in 1959 Sugar Bowl
LSU Tigers No. 86
Position	End
Career history
College	LSU (1958–1960)
Bowl games	Sugar Bowl (1959, 1960)
Personal information
Date of birth	(1939-08-25)August 25, 1939
Date of death	September 16, 2010(2010-09-16) (aged 71)
Place of death	Lafayette, Louisiana
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	190 lb (86 kg)

Michael Ray "Mickey" Manghan (August 25, 1939 – September 16, 2010) was an American football player for the LSU Tigers from 1958 to 1960. He played at the end position on both offense and defense and was selected as an Academic All-America and All-SEC player. He is most remembered for catching the winning touchdown pass in the Sugar Bowl on January 1, 1959, to give LSU the national championship for the 1958 college football season.

Mangham came to LSU from Kensington, Maryland. His mother was the former Louise Ratliff (1913–2005). His father, Francis Ray "Fanny" Mangham (1911–1981), had played basketball and football for Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. He enrolled without an athletic scholarship and played as a walk-on for the freshman football team in 1957. When LSU's head coach Paul Dietzel asked the freshman coach how the freshman ends were doing, he was told, "Not so good, but this Mangham is looking good." Dietzel heard the story so often that he put Mangham on scholarship.

In 1958, Coach Dietzel played Mangham, then a 6-foot, 1-inch, 190-pound sophomore, in the first two games of the season against Rice and Alabama. Mangham played so well he became a starter. He helped lead the 1958 LSU Tigers football team to a perfect 12–0 record and the national championship. He scored LSU's only touchdown on a nine-yard pass from College Football Hall of Famer Billy Cannon in its 7-0 win over Clemson in the 1959 Sugar Bowl.