[Husker] NU/OU game replay

[Tommy Thompson]

I watch that game every few years.  It was definitely an amazing game and 
deserves the title of Game of the Century.

Both teams had a ton of talent...on both sides of the ball.

The players were smaller and slower than today's players, but they seemed 
more disciplined.  Many of them, however, including Rodgers, Mildren, 
Kinney, and Tagge would still be starters today.

Here is some player info:

89 Anderson, Frosty SE 6-01 176 So.
27 Blahak, Joe LCB 5-10 184 Jr.
46 Damkroger, Maury FB 6-02 215 So.
90 Dutton, John DT 6-07 241 So.
79 Glover, Rich MG 6-01 234 Jr.
81 Harper, Willie DE 6-03 207 Jr.
75 Jacobson, Larry DT 6-06 250 Sr.
37 Johnson, Monte MG 6-06 232 Jr.
35 Kinney, Jeff HB 6-02 210 Sr. .
85 List, Jerry TE 6-01 218 Jr.
44 Olds, Bill FB 6-01 215 Jr.
20 Rodgers, Johnny HB 5-10 171 Jr.
14 Tagge, Jerry QB 6-02 215 Sr.


Tommy Thompson
"GO BIG RED"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Oliver" <ksterling at mindspring.com>
To: "jean" <mcgee4646 at sbcglobal.net>; "huskers" <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 9:32 AM
Subject: [Husker] NU/OU game replay


>
> I have spent much of the morning watching a replay of the '71 OU/NU game 
> from the link at HuskerPedia. I have never watched a replay of the game 
> and my recollections were cloudy at best after 37 years.
>
> Some observations:
>
> The players look very small compared to today.
>
> Jerry Tagge and Jeff Kinney were very good, better and more important than 
> I had remembered.
>
> Johnny Rogers run was for the first score.  I had thought it was later in 
> the game.  Still amazing.
>
> The screen looks so uncluttered compared to today's broadcasts.  No score, 
> clock, down, distance, timeout info, play clock, or scores and schedules 
> crawling across the bottom.  It is nice to see the game as a game.
>
> At half-time they showed both marching bands.  It had slipped my mind that 
> they used to do that.  No Holtz, May, or any of the other egos.  No ESPN 
> self-promotion.
>
> It was nice to see a game that was not basketball on grass.
>
> It was all in all a football experience--players, the game, cheerleaders, 
> fans, the bands, and all the atmosphere.  Much more of the spirit of the 
> game with the broadcast adapted to the game rather than the game contorted 
> into the broadcast that we see today.
>
> Announcers were ok.  I did not even mind Bud Wilkinson there.  I used to 
> dislike him on broadcasts.  Guess I have mellowed and forgiven him for all 
> the torment in my youth.
>
> And NU won again, hehe.
>
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