Posted on 08/14/2019 10:12:54 AM PDT by C19fan
SI has a bunch of Top 10 lists commemorating 2019 being the 150 the anniversary of college football. They did not bother having a list of the wackiest, and head scratching moments in the sport. It is these moments that make the sport special.
1. The announcer's crazed, shrieking call on TV added to the excitement. "The band is out on the field! He's going to go all the way!!"
2. That was John Elway's last game at Stanford.
3. The guy who scored the touchdown spiked the ball and decked a Stanford band member -- who was facing the stands behind the end zone, oblivious to what was happening behind him -- at the same time. Cal was having a poor season with nothing to show for it, but I read somewhere that the Cal athletic department found an old trombone somewhere, beat the crap out of it with a hammer, and put it in their trophy case so this remarkable finish would go down in Cal football's history. LOL.
“On January 1, 1929, the Golden Bears faced the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, USA. Midway through the second quarter, Riegels, who played center on both offensive and defensive lines and who was then playing in a role similar to that of the modern defensive nose guard or nose tackle, picked up a fumble by Tech’s Jack “Stumpy” Thomason. Just 30 yards away from the Yellow Jackets’ end zone, Riegels was somehow turned around and ran 69 yards in the wrong direction.”
Georgia Tech won the game 8 to 7 the 2 point safety being the difference.
I saw that game. I couldn’t believe they allowed that play to stand. I was happy.
Woody Hayes takes on Michigan.
That’s Clemson
We all lost something when Woody retired himself. Nobody knows what that is.
That’s funny...not a big college football fan so I never got what would motivate a coach to want to start punching a college kid wearing a helmet in the head. I guess that’s part of what we all lost LOL!!
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