11/9/1974 - Michigan State 16 Ohio State 13
Вставка
- Опубліковано 24 лют 2011
- Original TV broadcast of the last few minutes of the legendary football game won by MSU against #1 Ohio State in 1974 at Spartan Stadium. MSU went ahead on a school record 88 yard touchdown run by Levi Jackson, but OSU marched downfield and was poised to score the go ahead touchdown as the clock wound down. After a long delay, it was ruled that OSU's touchdown play was not snapped prior to the end of the game, so MSU was declared the victor. Chris Schenkel, Duffy Daugherty, Jim Lampley, Dave Diles, and Jim McKay for the broadcast.
NOTE: I do not have any additional footage of this game. - Спорт
i saw this game live when i was a kid, i was 10 years old at the time. i love you tube as it brings back great memories.
Duffy Daugherty doing the commentary 🤣😂👌
That game got me hooked on College Football. 4 touchdown underdogs to an Ohio State team that was averaging 40+ points a game. The drinking age was 18. We all went to Dooleys and the local TV station replayed the game
Dooleys.... It served great sangria.
Game played Nov. 9th. FINALLY, after 37 years, I am able to watch this game. I was at another college football game that afternoon, and only saw the highlights later that day. This is such a classic game, I can't believe that it has never been shown again. My brother was there, and has told me about waiting the 45 minutes in the stands before the official announcement was made. Then the party REALLY began!! Thanks so much for posting this!
There were, in my days at MSU, WKAR replays of Spartan home games with Jim Adams calling the action. I remember watching this in greater Saginaw and it was such a thrill. To see it now, Duffy Daugherty's real balance as the last coach of MSU, serving as color commentator is striking. It's old school broadcasting and the pair is entirely professional.
I was at this game with my Dad when I was 12 years old. Needless to say the Campus was one big Party after the game was over and later that week my Dad told me Woody Hayes had broke all kinds of chairs in the Visiting locker room afterward.
I remember watching this game on ABC. Back then you got one game, maybe two, on TV each week so each one was a big one. The pure elation after Jackson's run represents everything which is surreal about collegiate athletics.
It's sad that with all the garbage on ESPN Classic, this game, as far as I know, has never been played.
I was there with guys from my floor at Shaw Hall. Smuggled in a gallon of cider heavily laced with vodka and by the end of the 4th quarter nearly all of us were schnookered up pretty good - but not so much that we didn't realize we'd just beaten Archie
Griffin & Company, the number one team in the country. By far the best MSU football game I've ever attended.
As an aside, I was in Cincinnati around 1980 and rode up in an elevator with Archie Griffin and a couple other Bengals and was shocked at how little he was.
My sister in law lived in Shaw - they called her "Shaw Sue"! I think I had the best though - Hubbard Hall 12th floor, with a view of the whole campus and the state capitol - not to mention 11 foot ceilings which made some really sweet lofts possible. Go Green!
I was in Holmes, by then. You may have had to smuggle in the spiked cider, but , assuming you were at least 18, you didn't have use fake ID to buy the vodka. I was 16 when the drinking age was lowered to 18 and about 22 when it was raised to 21. About the same for you....
Hayes belted a MSU kid - I recall it was a State News reporter.
@@pdoylemi One of my off campus roommates had lived at Hubbard & shone a bright red light every night from his 12th floor window facing the campus meant to help drunk fellow Hubbardites find their way home from the bars in the dark.
@@GoGreen1977 The cider was hand carried in a plastic gallon jug hidden under a small blanket draped over my arm. Had they checked me on my way in, we'd ALL have missed out on the spectacle of seeing that tremendous upset so inebriated. And I was 18+
My Mom was at that game. She graduated from State in 1975. Thank you for posting
My dad had a ticket to that game but didn't go because he was working nights then. His 4th cousin is Dean Look - QB 1958-59
My first MSU game. I was 13 years old.
This is and will always be the greatest game I have ever been at. I was in the South End Zone and will never forget Levi Jackson coming straight towards down the sideline towards us. We went berserk. It was for sure a pick on the first OSU play after the kick, btw. But, if they'd have made the right call on that one, we wouldn't have had the finish we did. I remember being on the field after the game, part of that crazy mob, singing and screaming. What a day!
I remember this game so well! Hard to believe it's been 39 years. Thanks for posting it.
I've been to over 200 college football games, in addition to this one, and seen thousands on TV. This is the most exciting one I have ever seen.
If I could somehow see 10,000 I feel sure that would still be true.
Probably the biggest win in MSU history, too.
Wow, over two hundred college football games,, ❤️ college football fight songs, ❤️ woody Hayes vs bo schembecler, ten year war, detroit free press had cartoons of them games day,❤️, only each 🏈 team once a year. ,,, remember the 10/ 10 tie game, Ohio state vs Michigan football game,
nice crowd control in the early 70s
A bunch of White hippies and Black folk with huge afros. LOL.
Things were much looser in the 1970s, in many ways. The advances of the 1960s were paying off in the 1970s, until Reagan and the religious right-wing and other anti-progressives started to take over in the 1980s. And here we are today.
Rollo, it’s Ike that to this day all over the country
This may have been the greatest game in the history of college football.
I was at this game, was sitting in the end zone section where the long run for the TV went to, total madness. I remember leaving the stadium and we didn't know who really won the game....
I was there too, half way up across from the press box toward where you were sitting. Had Wayne Duke, then Commissioner of the Big Ten, somehow declared OSU the game's winner, it would have very quickly gotten very ugly in not only Spartan Stadium, but much of East Lansing.
Whoa, thanks for posting this. I've seen the famous photo of Levi Jackson running down the sideline, but I'd never seen the video until now. I love the fans after the score. Go Green!
Best decade of college football.
❤️ got my vote,, wooy Hayes/ great Ohio state football teams, vs usc& ucla rosebowl,, Barry Switzer & great Oklahoma& wishbone & great usc football teams vs Ohio state football, bear Bryant/ great Alabama football teams etc etc
I was at this game with my family I was 17. Incredible game one of the greatest upsets of all time. Never heard a stadium like that before or since. Woody was so upset he turned in MSU for recruiting violations of Eddie Smith. They were out on probation and missed the Rosebowl in 1978.
Thanks for posting this! I watched this game when I was 13 and I have forgotten how insane it was! I have friends from OSU who still bitch about the ending, but I just remind them that it probably should have ended with the interception that was waved off.
They shouldn't be too upset they were handed the Michigan game 2 weeks later when Mike Lantry clearly made the game-winning field-goal ,although it was above the uprights it's very obvious that kick was good and Michigan should have won that game 13-12. That's also on UA-cam check it out
@@robertkuzich2129
I'll do that.
@@robertkuzich2129
I found that game, and while I don't think it was crystal clear, I tend to agree - it sure looked like Michigan won that game.
I was 8 years old and will never forget it, this footage is just how I remember it as we sat right under the press box.
I remember watching this game on TV. Quite an upset, controversial ending notwithstanding.
I was a freshman at MSU at this historic game. It was the most exciting football game I have ever experienced! I will never forget this day! Thanks for the memories!
I was there, freshman year at MSU. Crazy ending students rushing the field.
The '72 game was better. The Spartans beat the Buckeyes with a 5th string QB who was a reserve DB named Marc Niessen. He was left-handed. It was Duffy's last year and Woody refused to shake Duffy's hand after,he just sprinted to the locker room. My dad was infuriated!
MSU kicker Dirk Kryt made 4 field goals in the '72 game before Nielson's go ahead T.D.
Marc Niessen, the Pride of Manistee!
Duffy was always 1st class, and Woody could be the biggest horses ass..
Terry McClowry intercepted that pass on OSU's final drive. Bad call by the officials that, in today's game, would likely be overturned.
Thanks for posting this amazing footage. The Big Ten Network desperately needs to broadcast this game in their "Classic Games" series.
If you watch closely you can see the ball hit the ground before the MSU player got it.
@@pauldavis5459 I've watched that replay over and over countless times and I have no idea what you are seeing. His hands are clearly UNDER the ball and above the ground when the catch is made.
@@miltonsmith974 his hands were definitely under the ball, but that doesn't mean he caught it. it could have gone thru his hands and hit the ground, or hit his chest and end up getting trapped. the higher end zone camera doesn't provide an angle to see that. doesn't mean he didn't pick it off... but all we see is the ball disappear into his body. the imperfections of the game then, and how it was officiated (like the msu players laying on the ground to run out the final 0:10 of the clock after henson's run) were part of the game.
I remember this game anybody out there remember this game?
I remember watching this game on TV. Duffy Daugherty certainly was excited.
I was there, sitting in the corner with other sophomores, primarily (no longer in the end zone). Hung around on the field, waiting for final outcome with thousands of my friends and neighbors!
My dad and I were in the corner of the end zone. Levi Jackson ran straight toward us on his TD run.
Hell Yes
The final score was made official about 50 minutes after the game.
Nice to see the manual scoreboard update again!
Chris Barat I miss those "flipping numbers".
I'll never forget this game. I was 11, a Buckeyes fan and later grad. So painful. Levi Jackson. Can't win them all I guess
Woody Hayes punches thee fan in the face and no one mentions it !! Times have changed.
It was a big deal at the game (while we were waiting on the field to hear the final call and heard about the hit) and around campus for some time afterwards. The event was a major story in the MSU News. We students talked about it and wondered why the NCAA wasn't doing anything about it. But Woody finally did get his comeuppance when he shoved/hit a player from an opposing team at another game.
If you lived in Okemos and left your house for Spartan Stadium before Levi Jackson took the handoff, you had time to get in on the end zone celebration before it ended.
What a game! Nobody gave Sparty a chance in this one.
OSU was a 24 pt favorite I believe
MSU deserved to win this game when all is said...Levi Jackson's 88 yard run was just like a rocket out of a cannon. Made the OSU players look slow.
Real nice of 3rd year linebacker Bruce Elia, who played several years in the NFL thereafter to crash down at the line of scrimmage, to be left behind by Levi Jackson. Duffy says Jackson juked a linebacker, that was actually the safety who got dusted off in the developing open field. It's all good, though!
The linebacker to his left, Kenneth Thompson was a sophomore who followed the sweep action and didn't stay in his gap in the 5-2 alignment. They probably have bad dreams of this moment, but again, I dug it.
Hey, Spartanswill75...you can watch Woody throw a left elbow at the Sparty fan immediately after the game ended.
He got what he deserved. No more, no less. He had no right to be on the field, or to touch a coach.
The veteran Big 10 officiating crew indicated that the clock ran out prior to the snap, as well as the OSU players were not set for the snap. For the OSU fan who thinks they wuz robbed just look at the interception that was taken away from MSU at 5:28 of this film.
Anyone catch Woody's forearm shiver to the MSU fan while leaving the field? Instant classic!
That man was full of class! lol
I was standing on the field with my friends when some other students around us started shouting that Woody hit someone who appeared to be a MSU student/fan. If things weren't crazy enough! It's also fun to remember that my roommate and I stood up about to leave during the game because she had to get somewhere. As we stood, so did the crowd because Levi Jackson was running down the field about to score. I laughingly said, "no really, you don't have to get up." Regardless, we stayed to the glorious end.
Woody was always a sore loser.
Weird that the crowd was literally always allowed on the field. These days that encroachment would not be allowed, deemed interference & penalized.
What was Woody Hayes supposed to do? Give him a big hug and kiss? The fan had no right to touch players or coaches. His ticket gave him entry into the stadium to watch the game, and that's it.
thats a good question.........
My dad had tickets to this game and he declined going because he was working nights back then and he say's he would have been too tired. He regrets it now.
13:30. Woody punches a heckling MSU fan.
Actually it would be cool if this tape picked up about 7 minutes earlier in the game. OSU was leading 13-3 and showing every sign of rolling to easy victory. But then MSU got a turnover (an interception i believe) and then on the NEXT PLAY scored on a long bomb to the end zone to pull within 13-9 (PAT was blocked). The crowd had been dead much of the game but the quick touchdown brought back to life.
Denny Stolz was usually a very run oriented coach but he did like to gamble for a big play right after a turnover to turn the momentum around. It certainly worked in this game.
Actually, MSU missed on a bomb in the first half when a wide open receiver dropped a TD pass. So Stolz was not afraid to throw the ball.
The drive leading to the 1st MSU TD came after a punt. Interestingly, Levi Jackson caught a pass out of the backfield for a first down to keep it going. The extra point was not blocked. MSU went for 2 and missed. A pass to Jackson came up just short of the goal line. Interestingly, Jackson raised an arm in exultation thinking he got in. An OSU defendet mocked him. Well, as we know, Jackson got the last laugh 😆 moments later.
I was mistaken. The game was 6-3 OSU into the early part of the 4th quarter when MSU QB fumbled on an option play. Had he not fumbled, he may have gone all of the way for about a 70 yd T.D. run. Anyway, Ohio State recovered and then drove the ball 44 yards into the end zone, then converted the PAT to go ahead 13-3. There were 9 minutes left. MSU then began the next series on their own 20. They converted a 3rd down on a pass out of the backfield to Levi Jackson. A few plays later, after another splendid run by Jackson, they hit the 44 yard bomb for a T.D. So yes, the last 10 min, or quarter would be great to be shown as it was very entertaining.
My Dad was the Head Linesman (official) in this game (top of screen)
I was there, as a sophomore. My roommate and I stood up to make an early exit to go to the MSU Bookstore before the crowds converged. Even though at 13 - 9, it was still a close game, but in those years, we were used to disappointments and didn't have enough faith. Just as we stood up to go, the entire stadium stood up. I laughed and said to no one "No, really, that's not necessary!" Then we realized Levi was storming down the sideline from the far end of the field towards us. Of course, we stayed for the rest of the game, and stayed, and stayed.... It was a very unique end to the game as we milled around the field waiting for the official word and then everything went nuts. Not sure how or when we and the rest of our group got out of there. Did you know Woody hit a MSU student right after the final announcement? Woody didn't get suspended or fired for that one. That came later when he hit a football player from another team.
The fan had no right to touch Hayes, though.
@bradleyholt9805 The MSU student didn't touch Woody. He just said something like, "Tough call, coach."
Earvin "Magic" Johnson was at this game. You can see him in the end zone celebration right after Levi Jackson crosses the goal line.
Just stop!
@@frankgifford207 I'm serious!! As God is my witness!!
@@FlintyCobblestone
Well, he might have been, but he would have been a 15 year old sophomore at Lansing Everett.
@@JStarStar00 I saw him saying he was in the endzone at that game on a TV interview. He even described the jacket he was wearing. You can see him clearly.
Absolutely Right!!!!!
A flag wasn't thrown on the last play, because time had expired before the ball was snapped
I remember that game. Couldn’t have ended better!
I'd like to know what the OSU players comments were at the last play of the game. Not sure Henson didn't break the plane, but at the same time with replay was it an interception? Ah, 41 years ago, great players, coaches and an up and coming improvement in technology!!!
Henson maintained then, and now, that he crossed the goal line. He said he saw the goal line beneath him. As far as other OSU players, Ohio State memorialized this game as a classic. Look up Buckeye Classics 74 MSU. Jack Buck narratives. It's a good piece on this game. Griffin still seems irritated and Tim Fox thinks the refs were intimidated into not making the calls "the right way". They tell how Woody wanted to lead a charge into the MSU locker room to beat up the Spartan players, after Woody smacked around the Big 10 commish.
I was there as well. Crazy game.
WOW. I recall watching this game thinking that OSU got jobbed (I was rooting for OSU), but upon further review 37 years later, the ruling on the field is confirmed. I am pretty sure the snap was not accomplished in time, and even had it been, it would have been an illegal shift since most of the OSU players were not set. Official's mechanics sure have changed a bunch since then!
Do you have the video of the 1972 Ohio State-Michigan State game(A 19-12 win for MSU)?
Well. We got totally screwed in this game.msu has been such a thorn in our side for many yrs
Nope.
@@lonestarbugum ya we did.
@@lonestarbugya we did
Nice clock management, Woody.
I was 11 years old at the time, and this was the first college football game I ever attended. The game itself was quite exciting. The deliberation after the game went on for quite some time. The students had filled up the field, and I remember them tearing down the goal posts. Many were holding hands in one long line that snaked around the field. It was quite a party out there. I remember thinking to myself that if this was what college was all about then it was going to be quite fun. I later graduated from State in 1986, and this game has turned out to be the most memorable of anything that I've seen since. We finally left the stadium, and then they announced the final score had been verified just as we left the gates. The question of whether time had run out before the disputed play or whether OSU had failed to be set for 1 second before the snap (illegal procedure) is interesting, because my recollection of the event was that the actual reason was that Brian Baschnagel had advanced a fumble into the end zone. Every time I watch the replay I see the ball bounce off the ground yet the announcers do not mention it for some reason. At the time, you could not advance a fumble in college football.
Richard Baes was a powerhouse that day for the Spartans.
Piss poor clock management by OSU. Time was stopped at 29 seconds for the measurement.....then you only get one snap off after that!
Woody's arrogance: He thought it was automatic they would plow it in.
Excellent victory for OSU.
We'll get the Buckeyes again THIS fall in East Lansing.
I was at that game with a group of freshman from Brody, Bryan 3b. Pure bedlam at the end, my roommate was from Ohio and saw some friends from Ohio on field after game. One of our other hallmates started a fight with the OSU fans and we had to drag him out of the stadium. Levi Jackson made probably the greatest run in BIG history.
Where did you get this footage? Has Big 10 network shown this gem?
That one prevented another national championship. Weird that the crowd was literally always allowed on the field. These days those are deemed interference & penalized.
I have found a photo of the next to last play of the game at the moment Champ Henson, Ohio State's fullback hits the line. I will attached a link to the photo. I believe the photo proves what I have been arguing here and Champ Henson has claimed since day one, which is he scored on the next to last play.
Terry McClowry Intercepted the ball on that last OSU drive at 4:18. The ref right on the play- with the best view coming from the sideline called it but he was over-ruled by a ref coming from the middle of the field. The middle field ref had his view of the ball obscured by the McClowry as his body rolled. Look at the body language of the ref that called the interception at 4:25. He can't understand why the other ref is over-ruling him. Then look at 4:33 he's waving his arms with open palms which is a signal of resignation. He knows he made the right call but the other ref must have out-ranked him. Speaking of body language- look at the OSU players on the sideline. #44 for OSU is right next to the play and is showing his dismay and grief even before the ref makes his call on the INT. The rest are standing there stunned like they just saw the ball intercepted. No one is making any signal like "incompletion". Game should have been over before the phantom TD you complain about.
@@mikewynne7131 you definitely see mclowry's hands under the ball as he cuts in front of the tosu receiving. what you can't see from the 1970's analog tv camera shot high in the end zone is whether the ball went thru his hands and hit the ground or not. it's impossible to tell because his body's hides the view from the camera. whether the umpire (who signaled incomplete) or the linesman (who ruled interception) had a better sight line... again from the view we get hard to tell too. ditto for whether hanson scored from inside the 1. my bigger beef was that, when he got tackled, there was more than 0:10 to play. bucks should have had an opportunity to get another play off, instead of 3 sparty dl's laying on the ground. but that was cfb then... a lot less sophisticated, for better or worse. It was an incredible finish to a memorable game, that me and me hs hoops teammates watched (the 2nd half) after practice. a lot of chairs got thrown around after that ending. lol
What a madhouse!!!!!
oh how well do i remember...i cried
Watching Woody Hayes teams run a two minute drill was like watching a 3000 pound water buffalo give birth to triplets.
Because Cornelius Green couldn’t pass for s**t.
My brother and I have loooong hated Ohio St and Woody Hayes. We just about hurt ourselves when Jackson broke this run.
Has Levi ever bought a drink in East Lansing??
And that was definitely an int. Heinous pants on the Spartan coaches....
Extremely poor clock management by Ohio State Their was an official's time-out for the measurement at the one yard line, the clock showed 29 seconds, and started moving immediately after the ref signaled the first down. Yet OSU's offense was in a HUDDLE...for more than 8 seconds! I know they didn't have the spike rule to stop the clock back then, but what WAS allowed in those days was the QB taking the snap, and firing the ball out of bounds to the nearest sideline. When Henson's line plunge was stopped short of the goal, the clock was under 10 seconds, and impossible for them to get a play off before time ran out.
James Gowin Woody Hayes was an idiot in game management.
Watergate Ended the Nixon era, MGM Celebrated a Golden Anniversary (1924-1974). Darien Shields aka Tuxedo Mask was born.
Wow, where did you find this
Ohio State got screwed. The ref signaled a touchdown and this was long before instant replay.
The other ref in charge of timekeeping signaled time had run out before the snap.
msu been a thorn in side of ohio st so many times i'm a ohio st fan i still say congrads msu...but to bad wasnt replay i not real sure henson made it in either
Where did you get this? The Big Ten Network would pay huge money for this game if you have it all.
Nothing ever makes me smile more than watching that punk Hayes try to bully/beat on anyone he can find. Shaking his fist at his players on national TV. Even back then, it was unbelievable. Remember when he hit the cameraman while losing to Michigan in '77; or throwing his headset at Charles Phillips of USC as he ran past him on an interception in the '73 Rose Bowl; or punching silly students from OU or MSU trying to say "good game"? I won't even bring up Clemson in '78. Karma was sweet for that piece of crap. Great game to watch!
@jlsmsu12 and why is it not up on big ten tracker?
Because Ohio State lost and it didn't involve Michigan. Interestingly, Ohio State lost the Rose Bowl that season on a late 2 to conversion by USC. Had the Bucks won, they would have been N. Champions with this being their only loss.
Notice the fan right behind the MSU line on the last play.
The fact they never had the game clock on the screen must’ve been maddening.
we didn't know any better then.
Look at any highlights from the 1960s -- they showed the clock on screen about twice per quarter. The announcers would call off the time before plays.
And of course instant replay did not exist before 1964, and was only used a few times per game before 1970.
What A game My # was 27 DB for Lansing Eastern
If you follow the announcer's count and then when they show the scoreboard when the clock hits 3 seconds the UA-cam time counter reads 13:04, which means Ohio State must hike the ball on the last play before the clock hits 13:07. Ohio State hicks the ball on the last play when the UA-cam timer hits 13:06, which means they hiked the ball on the last play before the clock hit zero. No flag was thrown on the last play, so Ohio State wins if the ball was snapped in time.
No flag needed to be thrown at that point for any reason, including for the OSU players not having been set in formation for the required one second before the snap of the ball, because the game was ruled as having ended before that OSU illegal procedure infraction occurred.
@@lakemichigan6598 No. I don't understand the commentators either. There is no penalty imposed unless a flag is thrown. Refs miss calls and that was one. The play didn't count because the clock ran out.
Afterwords woody led the effort that put MSU on probation. After the game he was heard to say I know some things and some time later the ncaa placed msu on probation.
Didn't Woody Hayes punch out a MSU fan trying to shake his hand.
Cant tell where the ball was from the angle of the tv camera....2 linesmen right there ruled he didnt get in and they had best shot of the ball
I was a freshman in the South end zone and will never forget this game. I helped tear down the goal post in the same end zone, then just strutted around the field waiting for the official word. I'll never forget the one group sitting on the field just smoking some pot waiting for the verdict. It was surreal. I've never been to a more exciting game. I also remember Woody popping the Sparty fan at the end. Wasn't long after that he hit one of his own players, I think at the Gator Bowl. He was gone after that.
Yes. the end for Hayes came when in a bowl game, an opposing player intercepted an Ohio State pass, was forced out of bounds close to the Ohio State head coach, and Woody gave him a punch. I think it was the next day Hayes was fired.
The interceptor was a backup nose guard, Clemson's Charlie Bauman. It was in the 1978 Gator Bowl, which Ohio State lost, 17-15. While ABC lowballed the incident as it happened, the camera was right on the punching as it transpired. Jim Harbaugh should see that video, and Woody's reaction here and take stock in the need to maintain some composure, as he works from the sideline.
I don't know why ABC didn't just isolate the clock while the play was going or during the replay so we could see whether the play was good or not.
I'm not sure they could back then.
They didn't have enough cameras and the facilities to do screen-in-screen inserts, etc etc.
OSU line wasn't set anyway. It would be a penalty.
Remember this game it was like a knife in my heart
I wonder how many people Woody punched out after this game I remember watching this whole game on ABC
13:07 Ball is snapped; back judge (ref in white hat on right edge of screen) waves arms to signal game over before the ball is advanced.
The head referee wears the white hat, not the back judge. The back judge is postioned behind the defense in the endzone.
@80s4ever63--Actually, Ohio State lost to USC 18-17 in that season's Rose Bowl. You're thinking of the previous Rose Bowl when the Buckeyes crushed the Trojans.
It's too bad Duffy was in the broadcast booth instead the of sideline that day, but 1967 and the following years were tough.
I remember this game as a kid. Michigan State won twice. The interception and then again with no time on the clock. The one crooked ref did everything in his power to give this game to the buckeyes.
That looks like an American TV circa 1973.
So . . . back in the 70's the crowd could celebrate touchdowns on the field with players?
Yep 👍
No. They just didn't call it here. But, the fans sat along the sidelines at Spartan Stadium then. I liked it better that way.
Looked like OSU was not set on the last play. If they had lined up quickly for the last play, they had a shot. But they wasted 3-4 seconds on the previous play after they did not score.
That’s a fast FB
The game was lost by poor clock management and a break down on special teams for OSU.
There's a shot of the clock long enough for a synchronized modern technology overlay to determine the truth absolutely. Wonder if that's ever been done an, if not, why not.
If your team had played better and Woody had managed the clock better, and Levi Jackson not completely shredded your defense on his 88 yard touchdown run, your Buckeyes might have won. You also lucked out on the bad call on McClowry's interception on your final possession.
Security was lax back then keeping fans off the field
This was true everywhere. Riots in the streets were common in the early 70s.
Great video, and absolutely those players were not set and the call was right. Go green! Now I believe this is the game after which my parents have claimed Woody Hayes punched an MSU fan rushing the fied. Not trying to take a shot at Woody, just wondering if anybody knows about that?
The incident is shown as he walks across the field.
Yep, it happened. Yet Woody got away with it.
Gene Calhoun, the head referee, was a pillar of the Big Ten officiating fraternity. He retired from officiating and became the Director of Officiating for the Big Ten before retiring in 1990. Sadly he suffered from addiction to drugs and alcohol. His law license was suspended in 1995 after he was arrested for cocaine possession. It turned out that the Big Ten’s number one official was a coke head. He died in 1996. Ohio State fans will always wonder what Calhoun was smoking on this fateful Saturday afternoon.
Today's replay rules would have short changed us of a very dramatic ending.
MSU would have been given the interception with 3:05 left and the game would be over.
The day I became a Spartan
My girlfriend and I were in the south endzone. Levi Jackson ran right to us.
I was in same end zone Ron !!
Doug Damskey i was in boston as a 9 year old in my living room. also rooting for sparty!
Were you part of the mosh pit that ensued? lol
How cool is that?
so true about Woody, general.....so glad Bo retired before he ended up that way
Woody Hayes started to decline 1977/ 1978 football years recuit very well 1980 great Ohio state football rosebowl team
Pretty obvious that Woody was clueless in teaching his kids how to run a hurry up offense.