Oklahoma vs Nebraska *(from November 25, 1971)
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- Oklahoma head football coach Chuck Fairbanks' #2 ranked Sooners come up a little short in a close defensive battle in Norman against the #1 Nebraska Cornhuskers on Thanksgiving Day 1971 in this gridiron classic, original "Game of the Century." *from 11/25/71 on ABC.
I'm huge fan of the '71 Nebraska team, but I really think both of these teams came out "winners". Both class guys (see interviews over the years). Great players, great plays, great game. They don't come any better than this. Kinney had a awesome game, but Mildren was certainly MVP.
College football's greatest game ever IMO.I can't think of a year before or since where two teams were so far superior to everyone else. Plus the game lived up to the hype.
haha,bama this season
Jack Mildren took an awful beating in this game but kept right on going. This game just broke my heart. For years I thought Nebraska had really fumbled down near the goal line but about 3 years ago, I got to see it again and realized that I was wrong. Also until this viewing I had always thought Tinker Owens had caught all those great passes that Jon Harrison caught. This was my one favorite OU team and game. In my heart they are all still playing that game to this day.
The wishbone did that to EVERY QB that ran it. He gets hit on nearly every play.
Got three words for you. "Tear...away...jerseys."
Awesome!
Jack Mildren was such an underrated triple-option quarterback.
Before greed killed College Football.
The *REAL* Game Of The 20th century. And I'm a ND fan.
Saw the first half before ship's TV lost connection to Honolulu. Found out the final score about three wks later after we cleared security required on return to homeland from Vietnam. USS KITTY HAWK CVA-63...…….. BOOMER SOONER!!!!
Johnny Rodgers was such an incredible kick returner. I remember watching this game live as a seven year old and thought he was down when he escaped out of the pack and returned it for a touchdown. He and Rocket Ismail could break it any time.
i agree my husker brother. food was always great but the game would make dad and grandpa mad most years. thats what makes football traditions. GO BIG RED!!!!!!!!
I wish somebody would remaster this game like they did with the 1969 Rose Bowl and the 1969 Michigan-Ohio State game. Those games look like they were played in the 90s. Not HD but very clear picture and very nice color. I love this game!
One of the best college football games ever.
Count up the number of All Americans and pro draftees.The only game that rivals it in that regard is MSU vs Notre Dame, the 10-10 tie.
Mildren was a really good wishbone QB. Leon Crosswhite was very underrated. Tagge played a good game and Kinney played the best game of his life.
I wasn't born until '79 but Nebraska vs Oklahoma was always the game to watch growing up. What a game by Mildren, Kinney and Rodgers. Today's college games don't have the charm that this rivalry had and I wish I could have seen them. Was that Bud Wilkinson doing color commentary? Very nice job with the video. Thanks.
Yes, Bud Wilkinson.
My favorite game of all time, even though we lost. Bittersweet.
Boomer Sooner! Game of the Century!!!!! Sooners went on to destroy abarn in the Sugar Bowl, Huskers did the same to bamr in the Orange Bowl. QB Mildren the Godfather of the Wishbone and Greg Pruitt averaging nearly 10 yds per carry.. Boomer Sooner!!!
Jerry Tagge was my childhood hero,loved OU's wishbone too. Still my favorite game of all time. The year long buildup to the game was amazing,and the game exceeded all the hype.
Bob Devaney was Nebraska's greatest coach. It took Tom Osborne a long time to put the program on the same footing. There is no way Barry Switzer would have beaten Bob Devaney five straight times.
Where did you get this video from? It's so clear! I have a copy of this game on dvd but it's not quite as good as this version. I would like to have it. One of my all- time favorite games!
Ted
People in the crowd wearing suits. That’s dignity that’s lost in this world.
I'm Sooner born and Sooner bred, loved this game, I was ten years old and what a game it was. Its great to go back on UA-cam and watch it even if we did lose. To this day, my favorite holiday is Thanksgiving because of the great Sooner/Husker games, fortunately we won most of them in the 1970's. We would all meet at grand dads farm and sometimes I thought we were going to shake the old farm house off its foundation jumping up and down for the Sooners. Go Sooners!
One of the greatest rivalries of ALL time...greed and pride have taken over and you'll never see this again
todive4 I was 10 years old.
Commentators:
Chris Schenkel & Bud Wikinson
Damn, Jeff Kinney was a BEAST!!
stopping Pruitt was Nebraska's gosl what a nonster game by glover, mildren,and kinney go sppners
Best game I ever saw
I watched this live in upper Michigan a cold day!
Those Nebraska Oklahoma games ruined many Thanksgiving dinners
for me but those where the days. Born a Cornhusker and always a Conrhusker!
What's up with the Nebraska jerseys? Half the team is playing with ripped jerseys. They need a seamstress.
Got this from Greg Pruitt and wikipedia, "The Greg Pruitt rule established tear-away jerseys as illegal.[3] Pruitt purposely wore flimsy jerseys that ripped apart in the hands of would-be tacklers." Although he played for Oklahoma, most jerseys of that day were like that for a while anyways.
Greg Wilcox They were also a big expense to replace game after game.
Man what a rivalry. Damn all this conference realignment that has ruined so many of these great rivalries
At the 2:52 mark watch Nebraska's fullback....
yeildoo awesome block. Flattened him.
Pancakes w/ syrup
No replay no clipping.
12:39 Nice block bro
MR GREYCHARLES I agree with you.That was the worst play by play call on Rodgers return and boring I ever heard. Nothing like the legend Keith Jackson.
Probably greatest CFB game. Definitely BEST game of the 1970s probably followed by the 1973 Alabama/Notre Dame Sugar Bowl for the National Title.
You under 45 crowd can have the USC/Texas BCS National Title game. I'll take this game.
You would have thought Schenkel and Bud were watching paint dry announcing this game, wish Keith Jackson or Sean McDonough were the ones to call such a historic game.
great game, my brother was in the marching band from nebr. they had to have the ok. state patrol escort the band to the statium with police dogs. ok. crowds was yelling really nasty comments for 1971, lol. the big 8 had too many fanatical football schools. we pounded the heack out of each other. thanks for posting.
Mildren was one of the best triple option quarterbacks ever. But the story of this game was that Kinney rushed for 150 yards in the second half. He just wore them down. That Husker defense had so many guys who went in the pros like Harper, Dutton and Jacobson.
One of the greatest games of all time, too bad Keith Jackson couldn't have had the call, Chris Schenkel was terrible on this game.
Does anybody has the full game of this?
Underrated? Don't think so. Unless you were on the moon when he played.
Jeff Kinney. Jeff Kinney. JEFF KINNEY!
I was about 12 years old but I remember it well. Life long Husker fans were created during those years.
1:22 Block in the back there on Rodgers' TD punt return.
THIS IS 1971 IDIOT
That was an uncalled penalty and was a block in the back that would have negated the TD. However, if the penalty was called, the downstream impact would NOT have changed the outcome of the game. Either OU runs out of time to score the final TD in the first half OR in Q4, OU would have had to kick a FG on fourth and 5 from the NEB 16 instead of going for it on fourth down.
Either way Nebraska would have won 28-24 or 28-27. In either scenario, they would have needed that go ahead drive in Q4 along with a stop on the ensuing possession. Still would have been an all time classic ending with a Husker win!
Kinney had 171 yards in this game. 4 TDs.