1951 Indiana at Notre Dame
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- This is The 9/29/1951 Indiana at Notre Dame game. It is a kinescope of an original Theatre Television Network broadcast. The PBP was done by Frank Reynolds, former ABC News TV Anchor. It was not a traditional network because they were broadcast live into Theatres instead of homes. This is one of the oldest CFB broadcasts that I am aware of. I claim no rights.
I had no idea Herman Wells went that far back as president at IU, nor did I know Frank Reynolds was doing broadcasting that far back. I knew Frank was from Northwest Indiana, but he looks almost middle aged in that.
This was my dad’s junior year at Notre Dame. They won the national championship his freshman year of 1949. That year’s seniors never saw ND lose a game (36-0-2).
Thank you.
My grandfather was teaching at Notre Dame at that time, and my aunt enrolled at Indiana U that year to study botany. I'm pretty sure my father was at this game; my grandfather would get him season tickets every year. Frank Leahy was given the green light on hard recruiting once again after scholarships were reduced in 1948 when other schools, tired of being beaten year in and year out, started dropping ND from their schedules. In 1950, with most of the wartime talent gone, ND finished 4-4-1. They rebounded to a 7-2-1 mark in '51 and '52. Freshmen were eligible in '51 and '52 because of the Korean War.
Watching 👀 football in a 🎥 theater. College football was growing.
14:16 Right: Frank Leahy
Left: Clyde Smith(?)
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Notre Dame won this game 48-6. Indiana's only Big Ten win was against Ohio State. No longer Woody Hayes was determined not to lose to them again.
The last time IU beat Ohio State in football must have been so long ago, Lewis and Clark were in attendance just before they left for the Pacific!
It helped Ohio State that they hosted Indiana 10 years in a row, from 1951-1960. Of the teams’ 97 meetings, 64 have been in Columbus and only 32 in Bloomington. Even more absurd, Indiana played Michigan in Ann Arbor 17 times in a row, from 1935-1958. Michigan has hosted IU 48 times and visited Bloomington only 24 times.
@@johnmanier7968 I guess everybody wanted IU for homecoming, to guarantee a win.
Yes, I think this is a rare piece of history; at least it's the only one of its kind I've seen on the free internet.
Specifically, it's a live telecast (if only to theaters) of a major college football game PRIOR to the 1952 NCAA TV compact. It was in 1952 that the NCAA began its familiar "single national pool with rotated exposure" TV football contract model - the one that lasted over 30 years, until declared an illegal cartel by the Federal Courts.
Concerned about free TV's negative impacts on paid attendance at live games, the NCAA arranged a trial in 1951 - a slate of games would be broadcast in a number of specific markets. Westinghouse agreed to be a national sponsor. Tight control of the entire schedule was preserved by the NCAA, if only to prevent compromising its research (similarly tight control was retained in its ensuing national TV contracts, beginning the next year on NBC, sponsored by GM).
This desire for complete control of the TV schedule, combined with the membership's fear of further attendance losses from free TV, led the Assn to quash the two nascent TV contracts then in place with individual schools for 1951 -- one with Penn, the other with Notre Dame (...that's its own, long story). But Notre Dame's slate of theater telecasts, which had paying audiences, wasn't threatened. So we get to see this! I doubt we'll ever see any broadcast kinescopes from the "experimental" 1951 Westinghouse games, and this is a very satisfying substitute.
And here you've posted basically the whole thing; that's awesome. Great work, thanks!
According to the South Bend Tribune, this game was only shown in theaters-5 in the East, 4 in Chicago, and one in Detroit. The following Friday, October 5, Notre Dame played the University of Detroit in Briggs Stadium (later Tiger Stadium) in the first night game in ND football history. ND won that one, 40-6.
@@johnmanier7968 Good stuff, thanks for digging that up! I've since made some enhancements and corrections to the comment👍