1971 Ohio State Michigan Thom Darden Interception
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- Опубліковано 6 бер 2015
- November 20, 1971 (Ann Arbor, MI) - Bob Ufer calls perhaps the greatest interception in the history of Michigan Football. Thom Darden's athletic and acrobatic interception in the last minute of the 1971 Michigan-Ohio State game sealed the come-from behind victory for the Wolverines and kept their undefeated season in tact. Sure there may have been other spectacular interceptions, but this one essentially won the game for Michigan. It thwarted the Buckeyes' last chance at victory and basically ended the game. Enjoy and GO BLUE!!
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I got Thom’s autograph when he was with the Browns. He’s still their all time INT leader.
U gotta admire Ufer’s respect for Woody in this. That’s what this rivalry is all about. High emotions, deep history, and your entire season hanging on the on the line in a single game. But at the end of the day, there is a begrudging respect between both programs.
When Darden was playing for the Browns -- he was a part-time DJ on the popular WMMS radio station with a weekend show: Thom Darden's All-Pro Jazz.
Wow Thats impressive. dude jumped in the air like a king fish
I am a lifelong OSU fan - I have been looking for this clip for 40 years! Thank you!
Mark Bergen i lovr ohio state fight song. Woody hayes greatest big ten coach ever
I believe Jerry Markbreit was the head referee in this game. He went on to a very long career in the NFL.
correct, Jerry Markbreit worked as referee of Ohio State-Michigan in 1971. He went on to a very long 23 year officiating career in the NFL (22 of them as a referee), worked 4 Super Bowls (XVII, XXI, XXVI, XXIX). Imagine had Woody Hayes we're an NFL Head Coach back in the day, number of other coaches (Noll/Landry/Shula/Madden/Brown, etc. etc.), even NFL Commissioner Pete Rozzell would've not appreciated Woody's sideline antics one bit.
This game actually brought Jerry Markbreit to prominence as an official. He was widely praised for how well he handled this situation.
Just imagine if Woody had really lost his cool & struck an opposing player after an interception-oh, wait a minute . . .
True. I just read about this in Markbreit's autobiography. I felt like I was there at the game while reading it! I love the history.
Damn close call. Being a Buckeye fan, listening to this game on the radio, I thought just being close in the game, at that late point, was a big plus. We were such big underdogs vs. UM that year. A victory up at UM that year would've been a huge cap on Woody's resume'. Looking back, now, that tirade was all about Woody, a great football coach of young men, seeking a godlike status. Happily Woody Hayes fell short, really, really short. Woody was just human after all. Loved that guy, :)
The referee in that game was Jerry Markbreit who would go on to have great success as a NFL referee. He later wrote a great book entitled "Born to Referee" where he writes extensively of that incident
I remembering seeing highlights of this on "College Football 71" the day after it happened. Haven't seen it since until now. Thanks for posting this.
My father thought it was hilarious.
Old time football was so much better!!
Bill M i love watching old ohio state football games from the seventies like Rose bowls, sugar bowl against Alabama, games against Michigan especially the tie game etc etc
Free sports tv era& espically college football era😊
Ufer is way too diplomatic here. Woody went nuts. Tearing up yard markers, sheesh.
Similar to #9 Rod Moore's
UFER 🐐
Hard to tell if there was DPI. The picture was not nearly as clear as it would be nowadays.
Ohio St QB's have historically been so so with most of them never getting a sniff in the NFL. I think Tomczak was the best they ever cranked out. Basically at OSU you peak and then you fade off into oblivion.
This would’ve been a meme like the 2016 game
That was one of the cleanest, athletic interceptions that I have ever seen!
I see no interference. The ball was thrown high and slightly behind the receiver. Darden made a great play.
Can’t go through the receiver to make a “Play” that’s PI by definition then and now.
@@woodyhayes7402 Buckeye tears I love it😁 no I remember Woody and I like him I am a Michigan fan but I liked what he brought to the Rivalry he made it great
@@woodyhayes7402 I actually have a copy of the 1972 NCAA rulebook. My dad was an official back then and he kept a few of his old books. There was no change in the Pass Interference rule from 1971 (it would have been "grayed" out had there been, like in the section above on "Incompleted Pass). Anyway, the rule reads (as an exception to contact interference, "When two or more eligible are making a simultaneous and bona fide attempt to reach, catch, or bat the pass. Eligible players of either team have equal rights to the ball." In the same year, they published an interpretations book (which I have) that says, "If opponents who are beyond the line collide while moving toward the pass, interference by one or both players is indicated only if intent to impede is obvious." The Michigan player went for the ball and the officials ruled (correctly) that he did so legally.
And seven years later at a Bowl game Woody Hayes punched Clemson’s Charlie Bauman on the sideline after he intercepted an Ohio State pass at the end of what would be his final game.
Interference? No way, just trying to fire up the troops for '72
I remember Woody throwing chairs onto the field during one of the Michigan games in Ann Arbor. Was it during this game?
Watch the clip and see. You think he also acted like this in ANOTHER Michigan game in Ann Arbor?
I think there was a game in the 1950’s where Woody threw some stuff on the playing field in Ann Arbor.
I always thought it was pass interference. I think that you can see Morris Bradshaw (25) in the background clapping because he thought it was interference. Most of us on offense at the time went to the ball spot and were ready to huddle up and run a place because we thought it was obvious pass interference at the time. Woody did go way to far in his reaction. I was there when he was chewing out the ref (#32) and was yelling at one of them behind him. He was taking the down markers and throwing them on the field. Way beyond acceptable behavior for any coach. The only thing I can say is that I think he was so upset because we had no right to even be in this game. We had so many injured starters that didn't even dress for that game with injuries. TE Fred Pagac , WR Jimmie Lee Harris, OT Merv Teague, DE Tom Merendt and more in the week before the game. Tom Campana was a great wingback but had to play a DB position due to injuries there. John Hicks was already lost for the season during summer camp. I was a sophomore TE that year and had to make the line calls in that game because our new OT had never played there before as he was a defensive lineman up to that game. We were not very good that year so to even be in the game was a miracle and to see it disappear in such a bad way drove Woody crazy. His actions were wrong but I think that knowing how depleted we were and how unbelievable it was to be so close to a win and the have it taken away in a bad call drove him crazy. Even while he was going nuts I was upset with his behavior.
Thanks for your informed comment, Rick. I always appreciate hearing from those who played in the games because you guys have the unique perspective of having been right in the middle of the action. While Darden’s interception was certainly acrobatic & athletically impressive, I think it’s one of those close calls that favors the home team and we all know that there have been a few close calls that have favored the Buckeyes in Columbus!
Wow! Thanks for the feed! It’s pretty awesome hearing from the players themselves, especially from years ago, when football was football! All about pride, rivalries and wins and when you could actually hit someone without having a flag thrown for personal foul or unsportsmanlike conduct!
Darden had a good career with the Browns and Bradshaw with the Raiders
When the film is slowed and framed properly, a very interesting inter-action occurs, regardless of your sentiments, it is clear that the ball is thrown high and behind the receiver, the defender prevents the receiver from turning back because the defender has a better angle than the receiver---Darden merely screens him, he does not hit him,
it is an average pass that is up for grabs.
I was there at age 11........
Well it was interference but that's 48 years ago & the Buckeyes weren't going anywhere. This game meant a lot to Hayes, & I was very impressed with Ufer's call. He didn't rip Hayes to shreds for letting his emotions get the best of him & was very empathetic. But Coach Hayes crossed the line too many times. I'm not even sure how great of a coach he was, having let National Championships slip through his fingers in 1969, '70, '73, '74 & '75. I'm sure if Woody was around today, he might not have liked Urban Meyer's offense the first time he saw it, but after what Urban & Jim Tressel have done to Michigan in the rivalry game, I'm sure he would have approved.
I wish I was as sure of anything in existence as Woody Hayes was sure that college football was of any importance after about five minutes.
Woody was a PSYCHO, and this was just a preview of what was to come years later at the PUNCH BOWL, I mean Gator Bowl vs Clemson
GOBLUEADAM was a real man
I'm as Maize & Blue as they come, but make no mistake - Woody wasn't "psycho." Everything he did was for a purpose. Did he genuinely lose his cool? Probably. But even Bo thought that Woody went "over the top" with that temper tantrum in '71 to set up the '72 showdown. He wanted to give his team a stone in their shoes that they would keep for an entire offseason and following season until the teams met again the following year in Columbus. Bo said in his books that coaching is as much about psychology as plays, and Woody was a master at it.
nowjustanother - exactly
@@nowjustanother he punched an opposing player in the throat. oh but it was for a purpose. my bad
Lifelong Michigan fan here. Yes Woody could be truly psycho. But you have to look at the whole body of the man's work. Testimony by former players attest to Woody being a strong paternal figure who turned their lives around or at least kept them on the right track. Woody worked with charities, visited the sick, etc. Bo Schembechler was eager to call himself Woody's best friend and once said of him: "That guy was a helluva man."
As a sports-crazed young boy during the sacred "10 Year War," i saw Woody as satan incarnate. He was scary. But i really started to think differently of him around 2006 after seeing the HBO special "Michigan vs Ohio State---The Rivalry" (a great one hour documentary easily found here on UA-cam).
I now pay homage to Coach Hayes...."a helluva' man. "
Woody was passionate to a fault !
First and foremost, videography and film quality were awful back then. However, if you can stop the video at the 0:50 mark, it doesn't look as if Darden was touching Wakefield. Darden went over Wakefield, but it looks as if he touched the ball before he hit Wakefield. As an Ohio State fan, it doesn't look like interference to me. Regardless, even 41 years later, my opinion means nothing.
Except a lot of people agree with you
That fricken ref was blind...
elcucuy feo like Bobby Sagers blind? Or Kevin Swartzel blind?
"And Woody Hayes has now got the Head Referee in a choke hold, now he has just impaled the linesman with the first down marker!"
Woody acting the fool....again.
I think the NCAA needs to reverse this call, this games result, & issue an apology to the surviving son of Coach Hayes.
Asinine. Woody and OSU owe the world multiple apologies for boorish, unsportsmanlike behavior since the 1950's, continuing to today with the Cheater Urban Meyer.
Only if they reverse 1974. Fair is fair.
Fuck coach “cry baby” Hayes and fuck Ohio state! And fuck you for your dumb comment!
that was a public mugging...
complete karma UM lost the Rose Bowl to Stanford as time expired!
You're right. That poor yard line marker never did NOTHING to Woody.
Sour grapes
Any man who was an assistant on that Ohio St coaching staff must feel like why didn't you intervene and stop your coach from displaying such inept sportsmanship? He would repeat the same nonsense numerous times in the 1970's and Ohio St did nothing to get him under control. Eventually their lack of action would haunt them circa 1979.
Oh. Cut off before Woody bent the snot out of the down marker.
Not pass interference as the dB has a right to go for the ball and in this case Darden was going for the ball.
What was unjust and complete bullshit was the AD of the big10 voting osu to rose bowl after the 10-10 tie in 1973!
Probably took away a natty
You don’t know what you’re talking about. The DB doesn’t have the right to go over the back of the receiver to go for the ball. Also, there is no such thing as an “AD of the Big10”. But you’re a michigan fan, so what can one expect?
Can you by any chance articulate what was unjust about the Big Ten choosing OSU over Michigan in 1973? Neither team had a loss. The two teams tied. Michigan had home field advantage in that game, which is usually good for a few points according to conventional wisdom. OSU was No. 1 going into that game, and michigan was likely to be without its starting QB if it went to the Rose Bowl. They didn’t have a tiebreaker in place for that circumstance so the BIG had to make a choice. There wasn’t a lot of compelling argument to choose michigan other than that it hurt poor little Bo’s feelings that they picked the Buckeyes.
Bull!!!! Mich. Had two chances to win that 73 game and missed both field goals. Go cry somewhere else.
Woody was Woody. All big time football coaches are bent. I do not know who this announcer was but I doubt he ever played the game at the high school level or above. Things Woody did in parctice now many coaches of the past did. Now they would be arrested or sued by players. The game has changed the rules altered to make it politically correct. Its still a dangerous sport but not like circa 1971. I personally miss the more agressive version and coaches like Woody , Lombardi, Royal, and many lesser versions. Fyi I do not root for either of these teams I have always been a pro fan Baltimore Colts then Baltimore Ravens but I will say this Jim Parker was the best lineman to this day from OSU. Book it!
What a disgrace to the coaching profession.
And he never apologized. This behavior was typical of Hayes. Worst loser ever.
Such a fine example for young men.
You're right. Woody hated to lose. That's what made him such a great coach. He despised it!!! There was no grey area with Woody. You either loved him or you hated him and I loved him!!! Yes he was a find leader for young men. I challenge you to read the book Woody's Boys. You'll find out about that leadership.
@@pauldavis22 "Hating" to lose is one thing; nothing wrong with that. Being a hugely sore loser is quite another.
Bo schemlichler was sore loser too
@@user-iv9er3nr6z Hayes:
1971 - This
1974 - Punched a fan after a loss at Michigan State
1977 - Punched an ABC cameraman after a late fumble cost his team the Michigan game
1978 - The Gator Bowl...we all know that one
Bo never did anything close to resembling that.
@@generalbullmoose bo schembacer alway had an excuse for losing like the 10/ 10 ties game , it least bo schembechler didn"t lose to ohio state& woody hayes , & phanton touchtown against usc& rosebowl game another bo schembeclhler excuse day , 10/ 10 tie ohio state& michigan game was a winable game at home, dennis franklin got injury/ hurt
Darden had his hands on receivers shoulder,interference.
Darren had his hand on receivers back while ball was in air.pass interference.
Boy, Bob Ufer would be doing some "suffering from the magnitude of defeat" now, wouldn't he? 2-17 since 2001. Thing is, Michigan fans had come to expect as a given victory over Ohio State until 2001. An arrogance had crept in, epitomized by the band. Luck went their way, so it's good, it's good to see that arrogance just crushed these last 20 years or so. Very educational for the fans of the Blue. You can only appreciate the highs if you have experienced the lows.
Dude, you're taking shots at someone's marching band? What's lacking in your life?
That was obvious pass interference,Ohio State was robbed on that call
+Dave Smith ---Sorry Dave...That was a clean interception...Darden was going for the ball..That is legal
It’s close. There was contact between Darden and the receiver but not enough to make it an obvious penalty. Especially in 1971. And the fact that Darden was making a play on the ball helps.
@dave4248 Agreed. If this were a call subject to review under today’s rules, whatever the call was on the field would stand (leaving aside the fact that PI is not subject to review).
One of the worst "missed" calls in college football history, It doen't take a brain surgeon to figure it out- I met Bob Ufer in the mid 70's ..a true Michigan nut....Woody was right in this instance- he just went too far.....Ufer would not admit Woody had a reason to go ballastic!
This is not one of the "worst missed calls in college football history." It does not even appear to be a missed call. One of the worst missed calls was the USC phantom touchdown against Michigan in one of the Rose Bowls. The replay CLEARLY shows that the USC running back dropped the football several yards before the end zone.
Ridiculous. Nothing missing on this play except respectable behavior by the ridiculous OSU coach. He should've been fired long before this incident, much less by the time he slugged Baumann in 1979. Horrible person. Horrible school.
It could have gone either way. But according to Bo, Woody was just trying to fire up his team for next year because even if the refs had called the penalty, OSU wasn't going anywhere on offense that day.
Woody Hayes was a great coach but a terrible sportsman. Biggest crybaby ever. Eventually it cost him his job.
He was crazy like a fox
@@howardcosell2022 Good day Mr
Spoiled brat
That was clearly pass interference.
+George Sheehan
No way. Beautifully timed -- Darden simply fought for the ball harder than Wakefield did. A great great play.
+Jim McMillan Nope. I have the dvd of this game, and no matter how many times it gets replayed, it's still pass interference.
+George Sheehan Well, George, we're obviously going to disagree with each other through eternity on this one. Just like with the game-closing field goal that was inexplicably called no good in 1974!
+Jim McMillan Ok, Jim, we can chalk this up to agree to disagree...LOL By the way, I have dvds of all of these games...good memories.
+George Sheehan - Was wondering if you had good quality recordings of the 1971 & 1972 UM-OSU Games on DVD, George? The ones I have are not very good. You can ping me back by contacting me on the ABOUT tab page of my UA-cam Channel. Thanks, George! Dr. Sap
I was at that game. That was pass interference.