Half of you people where not alive to watch this game. This game was BIG! Texas had a winning streak of 30 games. This was the second bowl Notre Dame had played in since 1924!!! This was also a rematch of the Cotton Bowl game one year before when Texas won for the National Championship. Notre Dame hated Southern teams and Southern teams hated Notre Dame. I lived about 60 miles from Notre Dame then and this game was all anybody talked about for a month.
Sunday mornings during football season Lindsey Nelson would team up with Paul Hornung to present a (very) condensed version of the previous Saturday's Notre Dame game. Never really was an Irish fan...but I did enjoy Mr. Nelson's voice. Great memories! The Cotton Bowl was Lindsey's gig.
my oldest memory of ND football...new years day watching with my dad and two brothers....beer nuts and chips.....even got a 1/2 Dixie cup of beer . been an Irish fan ever since 50 years later....go irish !!!
Fumbling NINE times, losing five (and QB Eddie Phillips w/them) killed Texas. Even so, a game but overmatched, Donnie Wiggington had Texas inside the 10 late, only to fumble the snap and the game w/it. Royal said it best (as usual): "Our opportunities were there. We didn't get beat so bad that we didn't have our opportunities. Their inverted defense didn't cause us to mishandle those kickoffs and punts. I've never said the Wishbone offense won a football game. Angry people win football games, and Notre Dame was angrier than we were." Hat tip to a well-prepared Irish squad, Joe Theisman, and, especially, Coach Parseghian.
I remember watching this game and believing Texas was invincible going in. Notre Dame made them look inept with all those fumbles and defensive stops. Texas had something like a 30 game winning streak, spanning three seasons. But all great streaks come to an end.
Exactly 30 games, in fact. They tied Houston and lost at Texas Tech to start 1968, and then won their next 30. Their only real close games in that stretch were vs. Oklahoma in 1968, Arkansas in the 1969 version of the Game of the Century, ND in the 1970 Cotton Bowl (Texas scored the winning TD with just 1:08 left), and UCLA in 1970. Baylor in 1970 was also tough, but Texas stayed out of mortal danger in that one.
Notre Dame had a month to prepare for this game, and the defensive staff came up with something they called "The Backbone Defense," strictly to cover the dive, keep, and pitch options off the triple option. A book was written, and our high school coaches used that defense to shut out 4 wishbone teams and 3 veer teams using it. We gave up 19 points in 10 games that year, finishing 9-0-1 with a 7-7 tie the only blemish. Unfortunately, our coach thought he was Woody Hayes, and we ran out of a full-house T playing smashmouth football and throwing 40-something passes in 10 games.
"all he does is win" Another name that comes to mind in that category is Bart Starr. No rifle arm, but a great leader, and, again, did everything right.
I remember this game with my little brother as if it were yesterday. I was nine years old and cried like a baby after Texas lost and I can still hear us (brother and myself)yelling 'NO' every time Texas fumbled. It was one heck of a game and it was back in the day when the Cotton Bowl meant something.
Same thing. 72 USC VS ND. Led 24- 6 at half. USC scored 49 in 18 minutes. Balled like a 8 year old girl. It's ok . At least it shows you care about your team.p
If you never heard Lindsay Nelson doing radio baseball, late innings, tight game, then you ain't heard nuthin'. The very, very best. He did N.Y. Mets baseball from Mets inception in 1962 for many years. Finally, in late 70's, I think, he left to do San Francisco Giants. The Mets turned into a joke organization during that period and I'm guessing Lindsay couldn't stomach it. Can't blame him.
The 1970 national championship was the first split title in the poll era in which the teams that shared the title eventually competed together in the same conference. AP champion Nebraska in 1970 was a member of the Big 8 Conference. It became the Big 12 in 1996 following the addition of the four remaining small-market schools in the Southwest Conference, including Texas (the UPI champion in 1970). The year after the Big 8 became the Big 12, Nebraska was part of the second split national championship that involved teams that would eventually became conference rivals. Nebraska, the Coaches' Poll champion in 1997, joined the conference of 1997 AP Poll winner Michigan, the Big Ten Conference, in 2011. Nebraska had applied for Big Ten membership a century before but was turned down. When they finally did join the Big Ten, it gave the conference the then-requisite 12 members needed to split into divisions and stage a conference championship game.
I remember that game the Irish beat the hell out of the longhorns 38-10 great game. Notre Dame needs to get back to the top again.but they are not the same Irish team I come to love.it dont matter I will always love Notre Dame,and we will once again return one day.Go Irish.
Dead on. Like you said he was a great leader, but he had something intangible--something like, being able to see everything that was going on, and having good judgment under pressure. I guess you could say he was like Larry Bird.
Because both teams played so well in their first Cotton Bowl, Notre Dame certainly deserved to win one of the two games. Too bad Texas didn't show up for the rematch. A terrible case of number-one-itess. Otherwise, two great teams. Also, Texas had lost their miracle working quarterback James Street, who couldn't run or pass--he just did everything right--he was always a spark-plug. It would have been a better game if he had been there.
@@palmettohorn Phillips was a great option quarterback, but few QBs have the magic Street had. And of course, the main blame goes on the 9 fumbles Texas had in this game. Every time Texas started a drive, it always ended with a fumble, it seemed.
Didn't Notre Dame quick kick a punt in this game? I remember my Dad talking about it. Seems the Irish were backed up near their goal line and surprise punted on 3rd down. I think the punt traveled about a mile. Lol.. Also remember Dad, weeks prior saying how this game was being played in Texas with Texas referee and officials. Kept saying it was all Texas for Texas and a lot of hype. He was so happy afterward. He mentioned so many fans in stadium with tears in their eyes after big upset. GO IRISH. ! ! !
the bone was so cool to watch ....the qb"s had to be magicians......james street may have been the best ever .........the service academies still use the bone ....they have a 21 st century buzzword to describe it ......IT IS THE WISHBONE !
@toplonghorn. They had great teams but Lou Holtz's Arkansas seemed to get them or Barry Switzer's Oklahoma. When I'm talking dynasty from that period of 1963-1970, they were always in National Championship contention.
@1400deadwood. This was the game that really forced Texas took at their image. From 1963 till 1970, they were a dynasty. But this game set them back really until 2005.
I remember when they said that about USC in the 90's. I remember when LSU fans in the 90's cried about the death of Tiger football. Until recently, Alabama fans lamented at their lack of glory...
Street to Speyrer. Unforgettable. That guy, number 16 of Texas, was one of the most daring QB's I've ever seen! Texas never lost a game he started. Also threw two no-hitters including a perfect game for the Longhorn baseball team.
Texas had 6 turnovers in this game. 'Nuff said. They actually had more offensive yardage in this Cotton Bowl than they did the year before, when they won. And they didn't have the 20 and 0 James Street anymore. A muffed kickoff reception at 3:00 led to a recovery by ND, and another TD. At 1:12, Bertlesen just drops a perfect pitch that should have been a TD. Wasn't a turnover, but Texas had to settle for a field goal. How about 8:35. Texas is moving, and Worchester just drops the ball??? And at 9:21, just a little brush on Worchester, and he drops the ball. It's obvious Worchester was hurting with broken ribs. And at 11:24, the backup Quarterback, Donny Wiggington just drops the ball??? It's amazing to me that the Texas defense held the great Theismann-led Notre Dame offense scoreless in the second half with no help from the Texas offensive. edit - I just learned that Worchester had broken ribs for that game. That really hearts. That's why he gave the ball up so easily a couple of times.
@Ariamaluum Not really. Texas began its mediocre streak in about 1985. The Horns had plenty of good teams in the 70's and 80's, including one that regrettably lost to ND in the 78 Cotton Bowl (a defacto national championship game).
Back to when going to a football bowl game wasn't automatic, if you won more games than you lost. I forgot how many of the players were white, and how few were black, for a game played in 1971. Tear away jerseys, and the wishbone formation. Astor turf, which f-upped so many players with knee injuries. Darrell Royal, the dominance of the Longhorns. Theisman rhymes with Heisman. Good catholic, Italian men, playing football with the Fighting Irish. Over the air television dominated media. No internet.
really.then you better had take notice.we are nd... and at this day we are ND.all thease other unversitys.they all could only hope that,they one day they.could say..we are what we are.I REST MY CASE.GO IRISH........
Texas was the last all white team to win a championship and notice even in 71 they have no black players. Notre Dame has three or four. Alabama still won’t have any until late 70s. Texas has regretted inventing the Wishbone lol.
@@daviddickey1994 That’s right I had forgotten that. Oklahoma was in the 50s or early 1956 Prentice Gautt. Man I looked him up and what a player and human being. MVP in 1959 orange bowl, against Syracuse. I think his legacy has helped Oklahoma tremendously in recruiting and always will.
@@ronniebishop2496 He did more for recruiting black players for Oklahoma then any other coach did for their schools in college football history. Read his book 'Bootlegger's Boy'
Half of you people where not alive to watch this game. This game was BIG! Texas had a winning streak of 30 games. This was the second bowl Notre Dame had played in since 1924!!! This was also a rematch of the Cotton Bowl game one year before when Texas won for the National Championship. Notre Dame hated Southern teams and Southern teams hated Notre Dame. I lived about 60 miles from Notre Dame then and this game was all anybody talked about for a month.
I sure miss those days...
Ditto.
Double Ditto
Those were wonderful years in College Football.
Sunday mornings during football season Lindsey Nelson would team up with Paul Hornung to present a (very) condensed version of the previous Saturday's Notre Dame game. Never really was an Irish fan...but I did enjoy Mr. Nelson's voice. Great memories! The Cotton Bowl was Lindsey's gig.
We now move further a head in the action with Notre Dame on the Purdue 36 yard line.
Yes, I watched it. Not an Irish fan but Nelson was very good and it was well produced.
I recall, too, growing up in the metro Detroit area ...😊
my oldest memory of ND football...new years day watching with my dad and two brothers....beer nuts and chips.....even got a 1/2 Dixie cup of beer . been an Irish fan ever since 50 years later....go irish !!!
#17 for ND, Mike Crotty, is still coaching HS football in Seattle.
Back then you had to be good to get to a bowl game.
Fumbling NINE times, losing five (and QB Eddie Phillips w/them) killed Texas. Even so, a game but overmatched, Donnie Wiggington had Texas inside the 10 late, only to fumble the snap and the game w/it. Royal said it best (as usual): "Our opportunities were there. We didn't get beat so bad that we didn't have our opportunities. Their inverted defense didn't cause us to mishandle those kickoffs and punts. I've never said the Wishbone offense won a football game. Angry people win football games, and Notre Dame was angrier than we were." Hat tip to a well-prepared Irish squad, Joe Theisman, and, especially, Coach Parseghian.
Worth the watch just to hear Lindsey Nelson
Texas should have their '70 National Title redacted.
I remember watching this game and believing Texas was invincible going in. Notre Dame made them look inept with all those fumbles and defensive stops. Texas had something like a 30 game winning streak, spanning three seasons. But all great streaks come to an end.
Exactly 30 games, in fact. They tied Houston and lost at Texas Tech to start 1968, and then won their next 30. Their only real close games in that stretch were vs. Oklahoma in 1968, Arkansas in the 1969 version of the Game of the Century, ND in the 1970 Cotton Bowl (Texas scored the winning TD with just 1:08 left), and UCLA in 1970. Baylor in 1970 was also tough, but Texas stayed out of mortal danger in that one.
Era Parsigan was great and Darrel Royal the great Oklahoma quarterback was best coach Texas ever had.
Turnovers like ten
I was eleven years old
Notre Dame had a month to prepare for this game, and the defensive staff came up with something they called "The Backbone Defense," strictly to cover the dive, keep, and pitch options off the triple option. A book was written, and our high school coaches used that defense to shut out 4 wishbone teams and 3 veer teams using it. We gave up 19 points in 10 games that year, finishing 9-0-1 with a 7-7 tie the only blemish. Unfortunately, our coach thought he was Woody Hayes, and we ran out of a full-house T playing smashmouth football and throwing 40-something passes in 10 games.
"all he does is win" Another name that comes to mind in that category is Bart Starr. No rifle arm, but a great leader, and, again, did everything right.
lets see you had ND play in the Cotton Bowl at the beginning of the 70's with a QB named
Joe and at the end of the 70's with ND and a QB named Joe.
This is classic stuff.
Thanks.
George Vreeland Hill
I remember this game with my little brother as if it were yesterday. I was nine years old and cried like a baby after Texas lost and I can still hear us (brother and myself)yelling 'NO' every time Texas fumbled. It was one heck of a game and it was back in the day when the Cotton Bowl meant something.
Some great memories there.
Same thing. 72 USC VS ND. Led 24- 6 at half. USC scored 49 in 18 minutes. Balled like a 8 year old girl. It's ok . At least it shows you care about your team.p
Fight On!
I was at the 1970 Texas victory - the field was dirt then, did Cotton Bowl get turf for 1971 game?
👍 👌 Great team
The original "voice" of college football : Mr. Lindsey Nelson.
If you never heard Lindsay Nelson doing radio baseball, late innings, tight game, then you ain't heard nuthin'. The very, very best. He did N.Y. Mets baseball from Mets inception in 1962 for many years. Finally, in late 70's, I think, he left to do San Francisco Giants. The Mets turned into a joke organization during that period and I'm guessing Lindsay couldn't stomach it. Can't blame him.
@@lawrenceehrbar8667 I've heard old clips of him doing baseball: wow!!
Thanks for the memories!
The 1970 national championship was the first split title in the poll era in which the teams that shared the title eventually competed together in the same conference.
AP champion Nebraska in 1970 was a member of the Big 8 Conference. It became the Big 12 in 1996 following the addition of the four remaining small-market schools in the Southwest Conference, including Texas (the UPI champion in 1970).
The year after the Big 8 became the Big 12, Nebraska was part of the second split national championship that involved teams that would eventually became conference rivals. Nebraska, the Coaches' Poll champion in 1997, joined the conference of 1997 AP Poll winner Michigan, the Big Ten Conference, in 2011.
Nebraska had applied for Big Ten membership a century before but was turned down.
When they finally did join the Big Ten, it gave the conference the then-requisite 12 members needed to split into divisions and stage a conference championship game.
1970 game was on grass 1971 game was on artificial turf
Great point. And if you've ever seen the 1979 ND-Houston Cotton Bowl broadcast, they highlight how threadbare the turf was by then.
@@tjnd88 Joe Montana 's final college game Notre Dame 35 Houston 34
I remember that game the Irish beat the hell out of the longhorns 38-10 great game.
Notre Dame needs to get back to the top again.but they are not the same Irish team I
come to love.it dont matter I will always love Notre Dame,and we will once again return
one day.Go Irish.
Yes, probably not the same as they refuse to recruit felons as most others do these days.
Dead on. Like you said he was a great leader, but he had something intangible--something like, being able to see everything that was going on, and having good judgment under pressure. I guess you could say he was like Larry Bird.
Because both teams played so well in their first Cotton Bowl, Notre Dame certainly deserved to win one of the two games. Too bad Texas didn't show up for the rematch. A terrible case of number-one-itess. Otherwise, two great teams. Also, Texas had lost their miracle working quarterback James Street, who couldn't run or pass--he just did everything right--he was always a spark-plug. It would have been a better game if he had been there.
Offensive MVP QB Eddie Phillips and his 360+ yards of total offense says, "Hi."
@@palmettohorn Phillips was a great option quarterback, but few QBs have the magic Street had. And of course, the main blame goes on the 9 fumbles Texas had in this game. Every time Texas started a drive, it always ended with a fumble, it seemed.
Oklahoma won 47 games in a row and went undefeated and they still gave a National championship to Notre Dame Lol. Fix
Notre Dame did not win any national titles during Oklahoma's 47-game win streak (1953-57).
Didn't Notre Dame quick kick a punt in this game? I remember my Dad talking about it. Seems the Irish were backed up near their goal line and surprise punted on 3rd down. I think the punt traveled about a mile. Lol.. Also remember Dad, weeks prior saying how this game was being played in Texas with Texas referee and officials. Kept saying it was all Texas for Texas and a lot of hype. He was so happy afterward. He mentioned so many fans in stadium with tears in their eyes after big upset. GO IRISH. ! ! !
I wonder what for worse for Texas, this loss, or the '77 cotton bowl, when Montana destroyed them?
??? The 1977 Cotton Bowl was played between Houston and Maryland.
Barry Switzer
I would love to see the 1973 Cotton Bowl between Alabama and Texas.
Hang on to the ball, Texas. Damn. I came here for a good game.
"Texas fight" plays the entire video as the Horns continuously turn the ball over
GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!
Notre Dame developed the triangle line to defeat the wishbone. Just for that game.
Sort of how the flex defense was implemented for Landry's Cowboys
all i know is that when UT starting running the bone it took me three seasons to find out who had the ball on any given player.
the bone was so cool to watch ....the qb"s had to be magicians......james street may have been the best ever .........the service academies still use the bone ....they have a 21 st century buzzword to describe it ......IT IS THE WISHBONE !
@toplonghorn. They had great teams but Lou Holtz's Arkansas seemed to get them or Barry Switzer's Oklahoma. When I'm talking dynasty from that period of 1963-1970, they were always in National Championship contention.
@1400deadwood. This was the game that really forced Texas took at their image. From 1963 till 1970, they were a dynasty. But this game set them back really until 2005.
Thanks to the wishbone
I remember when they said that about USC in the 90's. I remember when LSU fans in the 90's cried about the death of Tiger football. Until recently, Alabama fans lamented at their lack of glory...
Notre Dame never beat James Street. Of course, no one did. LOL
I had the pleasure of meeting James Street. He was a gentleman and a class act. RIP
And he was a leader too! You can tell that by just watching his body language on TV during a game.
Street to Speyrer. Unforgettable. That guy, number 16 of Texas, was one of the most daring QB's I've ever seen! Texas never lost a game he started. Also threw two no-hitters including a perfect game for the Longhorn baseball team.
Texas had 6 turnovers in this game. 'Nuff said. They actually had more offensive yardage in this Cotton Bowl than they did the year before, when they won. And they didn't have the 20 and 0 James Street anymore.
A muffed kickoff reception at 3:00 led to a recovery by ND, and another TD.
At 1:12, Bertlesen just drops a perfect pitch that should have been a TD. Wasn't a turnover, but Texas had to settle for a field goal.
How about 8:35. Texas is moving, and Worchester just drops the ball???
And at 9:21, just a little brush on Worchester, and he drops the ball. It's obvious Worchester was hurting with broken ribs.
And at 11:24, the backup Quarterback, Donny Wiggington just drops the ball???
It's amazing to me that the Texas defense held the great Theismann-led Notre Dame offense scoreless in the second half with no help from the Texas offensive.
edit - I just learned that Worchester had broken ribs for that game. That really hearts. That's why he gave the ball up so easily a couple of times.
or freddie steinmark
It's a shame that turnovers are counted. Maybe Texas should have been given a do-over since they were so good.
Revenge for the Fighting Irish
you sure he went undefeated
@Ariamaluum Not really. Texas began its mediocre streak in about 1985. The Horns had plenty of good teams in the 70's and 80's, including one that regrettably lost to ND in the 78 Cotton Bowl (a defacto national championship game).
And you went to school where ? Oh, didn't make it out of high school; I get it.
Okay. Oklahoma, then.
One game to go, but I can still say it right now
Notre Dame is #1
What happened??????
Back to when going to a football bowl game wasn't automatic, if you won more games than you lost. I forgot how many of the players were white, and how few were black, for a game played in 1971. Tear away jerseys, and the wishbone formation. Astor turf, which f-upped so many players with knee injuries. Darrell Royal, the dominance of the Longhorns. Theisman rhymes with Heisman. Good catholic, Italian men, playing football with the Fighting Irish. Over the air television dominated media. No internet.
Word on the street was that Theisman never rhymed with Heisman. Changed pronounciation to ryhyme for the hype.
How many fumbles did Texas have.
Texas had 5 fumbles + one INT
i really dont see notre dame being a power house for along time.
Its 2020. Look at the college polls. We also played for national championship just a few years ago, although we got beat pretty badly by Bama Felons.
Exactly. Just like ESPN, can't work there if you dont have a felony on the resume. Or at CNN or MSNBC without a peepee pic circulating.
I'm an Ark fan. Holtz was 2-5 vs Texas.
But 2-0 vs. Texas at ND.
@@johnmanier7968 It was impossible for Holtz to recruit players to go to Fayetteville out of Texas. South Bend was another story
BS,Lindsay - the Rose Bowl has always been #1 in TV ratings.
That time I tried to dance to Garth Brooks with Pulazey and he roundhouse kicked me in the stomach. Stooge.
Notice the athletes are not as fast or athletic as they are now i wonder why lol
They already are, hater.
Playing on concrete.
@Galtline14 notre dame isn't doing anything...
Are you sure ? LOL
really.then you better had take notice.we are nd... and at this day we are ND.all thease other unversitys.they all could only hope that,they one day they.could say..we are what we are.I REST MY CASE.GO IRISH........
Norco, the Irish are minor league now. I hope they have to play Bama in the final four.
@railroadernhg11 kinda gay...
Texas was the last all white team to win a championship and notice even in 71 they have no black players. Notre Dame has three or four. Alabama still won’t have any until late 70s. Texas has regretted inventing the Wishbone lol.
Bama's 1st 2 black players in 1971 John Mitchell and Wilbur Jackson
@@daviddickey1994 That’s right I had forgotten that. Oklahoma was in the 50s or early 1956 Prentice Gautt. Man I looked him up and what a player and human being. MVP in 1959 orange bowl, against Syracuse. I think his legacy has helped Oklahoma tremendously in recruiting and always will.
@@ronniebishop2496 Barry Switzer.
@@howardcosell2022 Yes he coached Oklahoma.
@@ronniebishop2496 He did more for recruiting black players for Oklahoma then any other coach did for their schools in college football history. Read his book 'Bootlegger's Boy'
what ever man football sucks now anyways all passing no run games no nothing gets boring every team does the same shit
Espn sucks
Nobody was wearing a mask.
They ruined the playoff games for me today get rid of mcafee and his idiots
Texas gave that game away. ND's defense sucked but ut had azillion to's...