Woody Hayes predicated 50 years ago the state of things that our society was heading into. Rest in peace Woody Hayes you were one of the great coaches in history.
Biggest "Game" and my favorite memory of any of "The Game's" growing up - even the 2006 Game I went to with my Dad and my Son. Watching this in 1974 with my Dad, Uncle, and best friend - my cousin. We were physically sick when Lantry lined up for THE kick. After this Game, I drew sketches of Archie Griffin, Cornelius Greene, Pete Johnson, and Brian Baschmnagel from Sports Illustrated magazine for years. The four FGs made us sick. We HAD to score a Touchdown! My Uncle bitching all game about needing a touchdown and swearing using words we had never heard before. My cousin and I were smirking and not saying a thing. He worked at the Miller Brewery. Planned all year to ensure he did not have a shift during The Game. We played touch football in the backyard at halftime with #45 T-shirts cut off at the midsection with our own version of "tear-away" jerseys on them. The pacing back and forth and listening to my Uncle and Dad swearing and yelling at the TV and bitching is exactly how I still watch every Ohio State game to this day. Used to "record" the games - audio only, of course - with a Radio Shack tape cassette recorder with the microphone in front of the one speaker on the Black & White TV, having to pause, restart, and replace the cassette every 30 minutes. All with my Dad bitching that I kept getting in front of the TV and him bumping into me and the plug-in mic cord that was in the way because he was constantly getting up to adjust the antenna and the tin foil on it to get a better picture. Classic. Still makes me laugh and howl to this day. At the very moment, with the timeout before the Lantry missed FG at the end of The Game, my cousin was so nervous he asked me to ask my mom to go make us a pizza because he was having what today I now know was a panic attack. The bright, sunny Saturday and the 4th quarter shadows loomed over the final kick as they were driving to score and did not - and then lined up for the winning kick and missed it!! We were hyperventilating over The Game. In elementary school. Can't make this up. Great memory - God Bless you for putting this out there, "College Football Historian!!" p.s. I took my Dad to the 2014 National Championship. Fate and a Wish were granted that evening. In the celebration, after they beat Oregon after the game, I went to get a Coke and said, "The heck with it, let's get out of the stadium." In that split second, I turned and bumped into my all-time hero, Archie Griffin, in the crowd leaving the stadium in Arlington. In 15 seconds, I told him about my entire Ohio State fandom and his impact on my life, which motivated me every day from 4th grade to get into a service academy and eventually serve in the US Army. It was all because he was my hero, role model, and idol. If Archie did it, to me, I had to model him and outplay and outwork everyone just like he did. He shook my hand and flashed that smile like he probably has 10's of thousands of times in his life and vanished into the crowd. Could not believe I met him. At the National Championship. With my Dad. I have never ever forgotten his running in this game. I will never forget to this day what a true hero was to me and what a life-changing impact he had.
@@collegefootballhistorian2078 you have a great video lineup. One I don't see, but someone else did put it on RU-vid, is the 1973 Ohio State Michigan 10-10 tie. Hard to believe that was 50 years ago.
[chuckling tone] Ah! Yes! Dave Diles reporting on the Slippery Rock U football score at 2:51:01 in this video. ABC-TV college football post game reports usually included the Slippery Rock scores in the 1970s telecasts. UM football games stadium announcing is credited for starting that tradition prior to ABC-TV sports adopted it.
In the last 30 seconds of the game when Keith Jackson commented about UM kicker Lantry was, in essence, a _walk-on_ for the FB team, is very telling about the possible lack of concern the UM coaching staff had when it came to recruiting talents for the Wolverines' kicking game.
@P RH Check out the beginning when the players are announced and run onto the field. Griffin’s name isn’t on the list so the order gets messed up, and the names don’t match the players
@@lloydkline Oklahoma was still banned from TV during the 1975 regular season so a lot of Heisman voters only heard about Washington. The ban was lifted for the Orange Bowl.
Wide right can't see left. Legger..liked how Woodie pulled his guard around tackle to hit LB, then shuffle fb as well to hit holes. before 45 hits gap. As 53min mark shows. Once the hole was so big QB n FB tripped over selves at TE hole when 45 pitch wasn't made ..big gainer. Guys loved the run and a split line..dad used it a lot and won trophy locally. I was telling the shotgun at 7 but he didn't listen. What did I know.
for younger fans, that interview with woody is woody hayes 101. completely no-selling a heart attack. 2 napoleon quotes. "...well, if they (osu's admin.) don't like the job i'm doing, they can fire me...". a chin-high fastball at the drama-industrial complex that is the media. football as a little tiny war (that's 100% legit how he felt), with himself as the general of his army. sticking up, atleast indirectly, for the founding fathers with the "builders" riff. ohio state isn't my team, but i could listen to woody all day.
It WAS good. I was a rabid Ohio State fan growing up in Columbus and I knew it was good. Lantry did not deserve to live through the despondency he must’ve in the years after that kick.
All it was was a blanket of green laid over a concrete top. If you notice most of the players wore elbow pads for protection. It was a great way to cut expenses and playing careers.
@@buckeyeg4888 The individual blades of fiber used in the old astroturf were already short to begin with but it was even worse if the schools retained it long after it had gone beyond it's replacement window which made it even worse. I played on this crap in both high school and college back in the late 1970s to early mid 1980s and you absolutely needed the elbow and knee pads because the abrasions were a nightmare that stayed with you the entire season as the scabs kept ripping open from hitting the turf along with the sweat keeping them soft and nasty. Hydrogen peroxide was my friend.🤣
My brother and I, dedicated OSU haters, watched the MSU game. When Levi Jackson went 88 yards, we both could not breathe we had yelled so much. (2:14:14 F bomb alert!) Interesting that Michigan and OSU basically are the same team. I formation with a wing, power football with some option, and a 50 on defense. Short yardage both teams double TE and 3 RBs. Of course, this was probably true of about 90% of the country in the mid 70s. This was such a great rivalry!
2:51:11 Grambling and Southern playing the first Bayou Classic at Tulane Stadium. 2:52.57 Oklahoma-Nebraska moved off of Thanksgiving due to the Sooners' TV ban. Notice there's no ranking in front of Oklahoma even though they were #1 in the AP, because ABC was using UPI, which banned teams on probation from being ranked starting in 1974.
I've spoke to some people here in Columbus that were at that game. They said the kick was right up the middle of the up rights. They thought it was good.
@@markhoezee6292 Schembechler teams ground opponents into fine powered by the 3rd quarter with passless offense. I get why kickers were not a priority. Ups and downs. It was rare for college football teams to have awesome kickers 1970s. For every Uwe von Schaman, Tony Franklin and Russell Erxleben, most teams did not feature anything special. As pass blocking rules changed, and the option rushing offenses were gradually neutralized, pass defense, punting, fg kicking from distance became critical. Dana Coin 13 of 27 FGM 48% Bob Wood 7 of 10 FGM 70% Greg Willner 10 of 25 FGM 40% Bryan Virgil 4 of 13 FGM 31% Ali haji-sheikh 23 of 38 61% Bob Bergeron 29 of 35 83%
@allinfun829 USC won 18-17 on a last-minute TD and two-point conversion. Not exactly sliced and diced. Yes, the Buckeyes were sliced and diced two years earlier, 42-17.
Bo would have a dozen or more extra wins in his ledger if he ever had a decent kicker...his special teams play was dreadful. It didn't matter against most teams, but in games like this it did.
It's a shame technology wasn't further along when this game was played. There's a chance that fg was good. I've watched it so many times. Cameras weren't as high definition back then, no replay system. That fg may have been good
I will go to my grave thinking that FG was good. I feel sorry for Lantry. To hear him speak he sounds like he takes personal responsibility for the 1973 tie and the 1974 loss. In Ann Arbor that FG is good.
I'm a Buckeye fan and I've always wondered the same thing. I'm still trying to figure out how he missed it. There was a healthy amount of politics in college football back then. And it did seem to favor Ohio State. 1973 vote of AD's went Ohio State's way because the AD's didn't think Michigan could win without injured Dennis Franklin, who broke his collar bone in the 4th quarter.
I've never understood Michigan's crying over the '73 decision, aside from not playing in a bowl game. Ohio State came in at #1 and never trailed while on the road. Michigan did not do what it needed to replace them. I don't get it?
At the time I think many fans were used to the old system where no team could go to the rose bowl in back to back years regardless of there status as conference crown. 1973 was the first year in which team could do that. You either take care of business on the field or you leave it up to chance with the ADs which of course was a terrible system, but those were the rules.
@@collegefootballhistorian2078 Well, Ohio State was the deserving team to go to the Rose Bowl. As said, they were never behind in that game on the road. Michigan's only complaint was that it wasn't allowed a bowl game.
It weird that that the athletic director have the power to determine who will go to the rose bowl. Plus that's was a stupid rule that a team couldn't go to the rose bowl back to back years
This is just like this year. Michigan did not play a ranked team all year. Lost to OSU and didn't make a bowl appearance. If they lose again this year they're out of the playoffs.