1968 Orange Bowl Oklahoma vs Tennessee 1\1\1968 The video ends abruptly right before OU runs the last play of the game. QB takes a knee that is all you miss.
I was a 5 year old youngster in 1968 when my parents and I made a trip to Norman for the spring game. I was approached by an older gentleman after getting my football and shirt signed by Bob Warmack. My dad had the most shocked look on his face while I was talking to this nice man. I asked him if he enjoyed OU football as much as I he replied yes I do son I was a player long before you were thought of. Just out of kindness I asked for his autograph. When on the way home dad asked me if I got his autograph and I replied yes sir. Dad knew who it was but asked me to tell him who it was. It was none other than Jay O'Neal who was QB on the 55 56 national championship team. I still have his claude Arnold's buddy burris Jerry Tubbs leon Heath and Eddie Crowders autographs. My most treasured possessions that is in a glass frame in my den. Thought I would share this
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Absolutely incredible to see a broadcast from over 50 years ago so well preserved!!! The vintage ads, especially the Camel cigarette commercial, are icing on the cake. I'm glad NBC had the foresight to preserve this telecast.
Many years ago I was driving around Norman OK with a buddy of mine and suddenly Steve Owens came out of his house to get the trash container. Everyone in town says he is a nice guy.
A person younger that 50 today would not believe the on field decorum back then. No wild celebrations after a 4 yard gain or good tackle, heck, a TD might get you a handshake or two, but that's it. The players would barely acknowledge an important play, just get up and go back to the huddle for the next play. No obvious barking at one another either. That would change.....
This is the only bowl game I ever attended! I only went because my best friend was a freshman at Oklahoma and we were in Florida for break. I have no other connection -- I'm floored that this showed up on my youtube home page!
Great to relive the days when the band performances were actually shown at halftime rather than commercials and singing groups. The bands did great formations in those days starting form the end zone rather than just marching on from the side and standing still for 10 minutes. I was in jr/sr high marching bands then and we did similar formations.
Steve Zabel went on to a great career. Bob Kalsu was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 101st Airborne and died in Vietnam after playing a year for the Buffalo Bills. Rest brother.
One of the assistant coaches at this time for Tennessee was P.W. Underwood who was high school teammate of my father. P.W. played in the CFL. P.W. went on to be head coach Southern Mississippi and coached Ray Guy.
Interesting. Ray Guy of course would be the first (and I believe, only) punter ever taken with a first-round pick in the NFL Draft and would prove his worthiness in being one of the greatest of all time.
Thank You Tommy! Have not heard the name "P.W. Underwood" in many many years. His name used to appear in various Preseason guides I read when I was very young. Definitely appreciate the nostalgia!B.W.
I was there with my Dad and brother.Me and my Mom and Brother were also at the Kansas game in Norman that year when the field almost was completely covered by oranges when we scored late
They looked like good football players. I like that 3 man backfield .I always thought a lead blocking back made sense. That field goal kicker for Tenn looked good. I think Dewey Warren played for the Bengals.
Eddie Hinton who played for Oklahoma in this game would win a Super Bowl (V) playing for the Baltimore Colts on this exact field 3 years and 16 days after this game.
Same stadium, but not the same field. The grass was replaced by PolyTurf for the 1970 NFL season and that was the first Super Bowl played on artificial turf.
Richmond Flowers III from Montgomery AL son of the Attorney General of Alabama. Would have run as a sprinter in the 68 olympics but had to withdraw due to a hamstring injury. One of the fastest men on the planet.
Part of the reason he attended UT was due to the abuse his father received as AG. Tennessee also had a better track program than Alabama which also played into the decision. Bear Bryant didn’t hold a grudge and a\when Flowers was rejected for Law School at Alabama Bryant appealed to the dean to admit him and Flowers was admitted and obviously graduated.
He was actually Richmond Flowers Jr. One of his future sons was RFIII. In the outdoor 68 track season he was far and away the greatest 120yd high hurdler in the country. He had finally beaten his nemesis, Willie Davenport, a few times and was on an 8-10 race winning streak heading into the trials. So unfortunate to injure himself prior to the Olympic trials. Davenport wound up winning the gold.
A year later i became a Vol football fan because their school colors were the same as my high school and I have followed them ever since ! The opening ABC college game of 1968 at Neyland Stadium(first televised game on astroturf) UT got a 20 yd TD pass and 2pt conversion on the games last play to tie Georgia (Georgia won all their other games that year)
I always somehow had it in my head that the last play FG attempt by Kremser was from 51 yards out. It wasn't and now seeing how makeable that kick was is agonizing all these years later. I was 9 years old watching this game - parents let me stay up late that night. We lived in Knoxville and my dad was a UT grad and always had season tickets. When for some reason one or both parents missed a game, I was able to go. I saw some classic football games in Neyland through those years. So many modern fans think of Tennessee's glory days as the 90's, which they were great. But the Vols have several glorious eras in their history, this late 60's / early 70's period being just one of them.
You have to admire the first Black athletes at schools like these. Imagine the crap they had to put up with. Them, being the pioneers, made it easy on those that came later.
@@mikeb6434 Exactly. It wasn't that long ago. Sorry, but for those that deify Bear Bryant for integrating in 1970, he was actually very late to the party. He had the power in the state to integrate MUCH earlier. He finally hated losing more than he liked segregation. Glad he finally did, but doesn't deserve hero's praise for waiting until the 1970s.
Well the black athletes where at powerhouse football programs colleges at the time such as Grambling State, Tennessee State, Alabama State, Florida A&M Jackson State, Southern at Baton Rouge, etc. HBCUs
@@elhombrenegro4999 Because they had no other options. These schools may have had "powerhouse" football, but they had vastly inferior resources compared to the "white" schools. Like much of the African-American culture back then, they had to try to do more with less. The state legislatures only gave them "the scraps".
This 1967 season (concluding with the 1968 Orange Bowl) was the last season I believe Tennessee played at Neyland Stadium on grass before it was converted to AstroTurf (one of the first college stadiums to do so with numerous others doing so for the 1969 season). Oklahoma would go to AstroTurf (actually PolyTurf) a couple of years later.
@@Bob31415 , Yes, you had to go to the game, listen on radio , or read about them the following day in newspapers. I don’t recall any college regular season games in the 60s on TV except army/ navy or Norte Dame that were televised. Honestly don’t remember when they started, mid 70s ?
@@michaeltaylors2456 Maybe there was a time in the early 60s but I found this sentence on the Wikipedia article entitled College Football on Television: In 1954, 1960 and 1961, and then from 1966 through 1981, ABC was the exclusive network home for regular season NCAA football telecasts.
@@Bob31415 That helps, ABC in the 60s with rabbit ear antennas far from an urban center and broadcast antenna likely would have been such a crappy picture we gave up. And then it was a singular national broadcast that wasn’t necessarily going to local teams that we were interested in watching anyway Hence the Army, Navy, Norte Dames of the world at that time.
I'm not a Vol fan either, even though I had a cousin that played for them, if you like orange sherbet and vanilla checkerboard ice cream, then you have to like Tennessee sometimes.
This was REAL College Football when there was NO TRASH TALK, NO TAUNTING AND NO SHOWBOATING! These young College Football Players SHOULD BE TAKING NOTES on HOW to play football the PROPER WAY.They should WATCH this game and LEARN!
@Notnek202 Kansas, HA. They were atroious. 65 2 wins 66 2 wins 67 5 wins 68 9 wins 69 1 win Who gave a shi.t and would have tuned in for an anomaly in 68.
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Back when the offense used to huddle up about 15 yards away from the line of scrimmage and talk it over. The play clock must have been pretty lenient back in the day, probably was kept on field and up to the ref's discretion.
The calm before that storm known as 1968. How did you get this? Looking forward to watching this bit by bit. Thank you for sharing this sports jewel from a bygone era
I recall there was the Orange Bowl Parade taking place the night prior to the Orange Bowl Game; whereupon the most prominent parade floats were put on display at halftime during the Orange Bowl Game; which is what you are seeing at halftime in this video.
Lol, and the stadium announcer, seemingly confused, described at least two Tennessee *upperclassmen* as just “going for [their] BA.” In my mind, he was reading off his list of players and their majors, and next to each of those guys’ names was just a crudely drawn Confederate flag.
Richmond Flowers was a world class track athlete who chose Tennessee in part due to how his dad was treated in Alabama.(His dad was attorney general and had to deal with all of the civil rights issues). Bear Bryant wanted him but didn’t hold it against him for going to UT. When the younger Flowers applied to Law School at Alabama Bryant gave him a glowing recommendation
That's not Keith Jackson doing the color; it's Kyle Rote, a former NY Giants running back. I agree he does not know doodly about the players in this game or what's going on. Maybe too much head shots....
I remember at the time thinking that the seniors would be subjected to the military draft after they graduated. 1968 would be even worse than 1967 in Vietnam. Very bad time in our history.
Just had to post. I don't know what to say. Seeing him (I had heard many reports on various television shows over the years, but don't ever remember seeing pictures of him [except perhaps a shot of a bubble gum card] let alone video) was very moving.
Unfortunately the NFL let the Sabans have pretty much all control and so most games ended up on The Cutting Room floor. They chop them up and use them in their little highlight films and stuff they should have made copies and then done that but. The only thing that exists at the first two Super Bowls has kind of a TV radio merge in some of the plays are not there just you know it's just a picture it's not the complete with Huddle's and everything however the third Super Bowl does exist and its entirety I will try but it may get blocked
Virgil Moody I have almost all SB 3, last few minutes of 4, part of 5, (network broadcasts) after that they’re pretty much available. Have a few plays from Super Bowl I, SB 2 is the only game I have nothing from the original broadcast.
I guess we all can take some comfort in knowing that the first two Super Bowls weren’t competitive games. The Packers dominated both games, as far as I can recall. They certainly dominated on the scoreboard. It would be a greater loss if the games, themselves, were great games. Still, as you said, it would be nice to have them on tape for their historic importance, if nothing else.
@@vwm8534 Networks also were not as proactive in keeping master tapes as they are today. That's a network issue. And FWIW CBS televised Super Bowl II and they were REALLY bad at keeping master tapes
It's interesting how when they announced the players they also stated their college majors. That's because in the old days college players were actual student-athletes. Of course today this no longer exists, which is unfortunate, because of all the players they introduced here, I think only two made it to the NFL: Steve Owens and Eddie Hinton, and even then their pro careers were very brief.
Richmond Flowers played a few years as a DB for Dallas and the NY Giants. Dewey Warren had a cup of coffee with Cincinnati. Liggins IIRC was an all pro in the CFL.
@@chrisrose6014 Yeah, I thought I would miss maybe one or two players. But my point is that the majority of the players here ,as well as in general, don't make the pros, and as you correctly pointed out, their pro "careers" are mostly short-term.
As I understand it, Fairbanks (OU's coach) didn't want to give the ball back to Tennessee because they were moving the ball really well. "Hacksaw" Reynolds made a great play on Owens.
Like Joe Friday (Jack Webb for the TV ignorant) said: Just the game please. None of the nonsense they cram onto the screen today. If you pay attention to all the baloney they peddle you'll be exhausted by half-time.
Virgil - how did you get this tape ? Long before VHS and camcorders, so wonder if you have contacts at NBC where this must have been in their storage vaults ?
I was wondering if you had the Rose Bowl which aired immediately ahead of this game on NBC (I know it's on film on CZcams, but I wanted to see if the video was around). Also, which Bowl game preceded the Rose Bowl since it was noted here the Orange Bowl was the last game of a tripleheader?
Well the Cotton Bowl and the Sugar bowl were the other two bowl games played on that day. I looked it up the Cotton Bowl was on CBS that year and the Sugar Bowl was on NBC, so the other game in the triple header was the Sugar Bowl.
That's because OF lineman in that era could not extend their hands. Keeping their hands at their chest, they drove the D linemen & LB's backwards by taking their legs out from under them. The cage drill taught this technique.....
An optical illusion due to the lighting and TV cameras of the day. The plastic helmets merely reflected light differently from the jerseys. Look at film of an OU day game back then. OU always wore crimson jerseys.
When it came to regular season college games, ABC-TV had a near lock with the NCAA for football games telecasts back then. NBC and CBS generally carried the post-season college bowl games.
I was a 5 year old youngster in 1968 when my parents and I made a trip to Norman for the spring game. I was approached by an older gentleman after getting my football and shirt signed by Bob Warmack. My dad had the most shocked look on his face while I was talking to this nice man. I asked him if he enjoyed OU football as much as I he replied yes I do son I was a player long before you were thought of. Just out of kindness I asked for his autograph. When on the way home dad asked me if I got his autograph and I replied yes sir. Dad knew who it was but asked me to tell him who it was. It was none other than Jay O'Neal who was QB on the 55 56 national championship team. I still have his claude Arnold's buddy burris Jerry Tubbs leon Heath and Eddie Crowders autographs. My most treasured possessions that is in a glass frame in my den. Thought I would share this
This was actually the finish of the 1967 season (game was January 1, 1968).
bob kalsu , Vietnam vet , killed in action , bob , u are not forgotten . an amazing story . it should be on " the nfl network"s , a football life , MUST SEE TV FOR ANYONE UNDER 50 YEARS OLD >
@D Brother Here is the SI article: www.si.com/nfl/2014/09/04/name-wall-si-60-william-nack-bob-kalsu
Absolutely incredible to see a broadcast from over 50 years ago so well preserved!!!
The vintage ads, especially the Camel cigarette commercial, are icing on the cake.
I'm glad NBC had the foresight to preserve this telecast.
So true. Love the Rise Shaving Cream commercial. Jim Simpson was one of the best. Highly underrated announcer
"does your cigarette have that worn-out 4 o'clock taste? Try a Salem..." 45:05. I had totally forgotten about cigarette commercials.. lol.
Steve Owens....believe it or not my Grandmother helped bring him into this world, she was a midwife. Long time ago.
Now that is a cool story. I met Steve on a few occasions he's a really nice guy.
Many years ago I was driving around Norman OK with a buddy of mine and suddenly Steve Owens came out of his house to get the trash container. Everyone in town says he is a nice guy.
Watching these old games are priceless!
A person younger that 50 today would not believe the on field decorum back then. No wild celebrations after a 4 yard gain or good tackle, heck, a TD might get you a handshake or two, but that's it. The players would barely acknowledge an important play, just get up and go back to the huddle for the next play. No obvious barking at one another either. That would change.....
I remember and miss these times
A person younger than 50 today would not believe there are hardly any African Americans. People younger than 50 can't comprehend racism
And hardly none or if any afro Americans football players on that football for those 2 universities back then ¿Why?
Smart people.
Sportsmanship
This is the only bowl game I ever attended! I only went because my best friend was a freshman at Oklahoma and we were in Florida for break. I have no other connection -- I'm floored that this showed up on my youtube home page!
Great to relive the days when the band performances were actually shown at halftime rather than commercials and singing groups. The bands did great formations in those days starting form the end zone rather than just marching on from the side and standing still for 10 minutes. I was in jr/sr high marching bands then and we did similar formations.
My late grand father used to tell stories about this 1968 season. He was a huge football fan May his soul rest in peace.
This was the year of the Giant Killers! Oregon State this year Beat top ranked USC 3-0 and tied UCLA who was also highly ranked!
This is actually the last game of the 1967 season (played January 1, 1968).
Jim Simpson was an incredibly good announcer
yes one of the best ! very easy to listen to..these guys today could learn a lot from him
He also did secondary feeds for the NBC baseball game of the week. A solid broadcaster who is seemingly forgotten.
Yes, he did excellent work on NBC baseball.
ESPN's first "name" announcer. Did the ACC tourney and USFL for them.
@Karl M He did college basketball for NBC as well. Very underappreciated. Thank goodness for You Tube
Steve Zabel went on to a great career. Bob Kalsu was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 101st Airborne and died in Vietnam after playing a year for the Buffalo Bills. Rest brother.
Eddie Hinton caught the final touchdown pass thrown by John Unitas as a Colt, a Baltimore Colt.
That's right, the Colts were briefly in Baltimore before coming home to Indianapolis! 😂
@@middlefingermotionpictures4772 should still be in Baltimore. 3 championships in Baltimore, 1 in Indianapolis and there won’t be anymore there 😂🤣
@@middlefingermotionpictures477230 years wasn't briefly
I like the commercial warning about leveraging credit cards. You sure as heck wouldn't see that today. They all want you up to your eyeballs.
John "Jack" Hacksaw Reynolds at Middle Linebacker (Sophomore) for Tennessee. 14 year pro and two time pro bowler.
Two time Super Bowl champion also.
Awesome marching band presentation!
Stumbled on this. Great game. Old fashion football
This is one of 21 appearances for Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, second most to USCs 25 appearances in the Rose Bowl.
One of the assistant coaches at this time for Tennessee was P.W. Underwood who was high school teammate of my father. P.W. played in the CFL. P.W. went on to be head coach Southern Mississippi and coached Ray Guy.
Interesting. Ray Guy of course would be the first (and I believe, only) punter ever taken with a first-round pick in the NFL Draft and would prove his worthiness in being one of the greatest of all time.
Thank You Tommy! Have not heard the name "P.W. Underwood" in many many years. His name used to appear in various Preseason guides I read when I was very young. Definitely appreciate the nostalgia!B.W.
I was there with my Dad and brother.Me and my Mom and Brother were also at the Kansas game in Norman that year when the field almost was completely covered by oranges when we scored late
This game from 68 is better video quality than games I can find from the 90s and early 2ks.
They looked like good football players. I like that 3 man backfield .I always thought a lead blocking back made sense. That field goal kicker for Tenn looked good. I think Dewey Warren played for the Bengals.
Tennessee’s kicker was really good.We were watching him kick before the game and he was nailing them from way out.
Eddie Hinton who played for Oklahoma in this game would win a Super Bowl (V) playing for the Baltimore Colts on this exact field 3 years and 16 days after this game.
Same stadium, but not the same field. The grass was replaced by PolyTurf for the 1970 NFL season and that was the first Super Bowl played on artificial turf.
@@WaltGekko Very true.
This game was my introduction to OU football. I am a devout Sooner fan and season ticket holder since 1984. This was also my introduction to color TV.
Nowadays if the bowl isn't part of the playoff, don't expect it to be sold out like this one was. 😜
Richmond Flowers III from Montgomery AL son of the Attorney General of Alabama. Would have run as a sprinter in the 68 olympics but had to withdraw due to a hamstring injury. One of the fastest men on the planet.
Part of the reason he attended UT was due to the abuse his father received as AG. Tennessee also had a better track program than Alabama which also played into the decision. Bear Bryant didn’t hold a grudge and a\when Flowers was rejected for Law School at Alabama Bryant appealed to the dean to admit him and Flowers was admitted and obviously graduated.
He was actually Richmond Flowers Jr. One of his future sons was RFIII. In the outdoor 68 track season he was far and away the greatest 120yd high hurdler in the country. He had finally beaten his nemesis, Willie Davenport, a few times and was on an 8-10 race winning streak heading into the trials. So unfortunate to injure himself prior to the Olympic trials. Davenport wound up winning the gold.
I remember watching this game in 1968, I was in the 8th grade. It was nice to see players who don't look like they belong behind bars.
Liggens, who is still alive had a nice career in the CFL. The commercials are the best part
A year later i became a Vol football fan because their school colors were the same as my high school and I have followed them ever since ! The opening ABC college game of 1968 at Neyland Stadium(first televised game on astroturf) UT got a 20 yd TD pass and 2pt conversion on the games last play to tie Georgia (Georgia won all their other games that year)
I watched bits and pieces of this at a party with friends from middle school.
From this game 1st round picks: Bob Johnson in 1968. Eddie Hinton in 1969. Steve Zabel, Jim Files and Steve Owens in 1970.
Jack Hacksaw Reynolds MLB for Tennessee was a 1st round pick for the Rams in 1970.
@@luc2o Rich Flowers who was drafted in the 2nd round was probably the team's most gifted athlete. But his NFL career never matched his blazing speed.
@@luc2o And a part of the 49ers first Super Bowl team in 1981 (Super Bowl XVI on January 24, 1982).
I always somehow had it in my head that the last play FG attempt by Kremser was from 51 yards out.
It wasn't and now seeing how makeable that kick was is agonizing all these years later.
I was 9 years old watching this game - parents let me stay up late that night.
We lived in Knoxville and my dad was a UT grad and always had season tickets.
When for some reason one or both parents missed a game, I was able to go.
I saw some classic football games in Neyland through those years.
So many modern fans think of Tennessee's glory days as the 90's, which they were great.
But the Vols have several glorious eras in their history, this late 60's / early 70's period being just one of them.
You have to admire the first Black athletes at schools like these. Imagine the crap they had to put up with. Them, being the pioneers, made it easy on those that came later.
A lot of southern universities had all White rosters until early 70s
@@mikeb6434 Exactly. It wasn't that long ago. Sorry, but for those that deify Bear Bryant for integrating in 1970, he was actually very late to the party. He had the power in the state to integrate MUCH earlier. He finally hated losing more than he liked segregation. Glad he finally did, but doesn't deserve hero's praise for waiting until the 1970s.
Well the black athletes where at powerhouse football programs colleges at the time such as Grambling State, Tennessee State, Alabama State, Florida A&M Jackson State, Southern at Baton Rouge, etc. HBCUs
@@elhombrenegro4999 Because they had no other options. These schools may have had "powerhouse" football, but they had vastly inferior resources compared to the "white" schools. Like much of the African-American culture back then, they had to try to do more with less. The state legislatures only gave them "the scraps".
@@elhombrenegro4999 And don't forget USC on the west coast with Mike Garrett and OJ Simpson as Heisman Trophy winners in that decade.
One of the the players in this game, Gary Kreis, became a high school football coach.
2:56:13 Jack “Hacksaw” Reynolds with the big play, foreshadowing many more great ones to come in his 14 yr. NFL career
This 1967 season (concluding with the 1968 Orange Bowl) was the last season I believe Tennessee played at Neyland Stadium on grass before it was converted to AstroTurf (one of the first college stadiums to do so with numerous others doing so for the 1969 season). Oklahoma would go to AstroTurf (actually PolyTurf) a couple of years later.
Wow can really get a feel of the times during this game
I love it when both teams can wear their home uniforms.
unless they're the same color--lol
A lot of forgotten memories. How exciting this game was to the players.
If I remember correctly, no regular season games were televised ; only special bowl games like the Orange.
@@michaeltaylors2456 What? You're kidding.
@@Bob31415 , Yes, you had to go to the game, listen on radio , or read about them the following day in newspapers. I don’t recall any college regular season games in the 60s on TV except army/ navy or Norte Dame that were televised. Honestly don’t remember when they started, mid 70s ?
@@michaeltaylors2456 Maybe there was a time in the early 60s but I found this sentence on the Wikipedia article entitled College Football on Television: In 1954, 1960 and 1961, and then from 1966 through 1981, ABC was the exclusive network home for regular season NCAA football telecasts.
@@Bob31415 That helps, ABC in the 60s with rabbit ear antennas far from an urban center and broadcast antenna likely would have been such a crappy picture we gave up.
And then it was a singular national broadcast that wasn’t necessarily going to local teams that we were interested in watching anyway
Hence the Army, Navy, Norte Dames of the world at that time.
I remember watching this game on tv. Although not a Vol fan, I wanted UT to win the game.
I'm not a Vol fan either, even though I had a cousin that played for them, if you like orange sherbet and vanilla checkerboard ice cream, then you have to like Tennessee sometimes.
This was REAL College Football when there was NO TRASH TALK, NO TAUNTING AND NO SHOWBOATING! These young College Football Players SHOULD BE TAKING NOTES on HOW to play football the PROPER WAY.They should WATCH this game and LEARN!
William Vasquez You can’t seriously think there was no trash talk back then! The 1960s were a tumultuous decade!
Sara Anderson, I saw that game and I saw no trash talking. And every game I saw during the 60s,I still saw no trash talking. I lived in that era.
Need to see 1969 Orange BowlOne of the all time most exciting and remembered Bowl gamesRCJGKU
Who was in the 69 Orange Bowl?
Virgil Moody Penn St (10-0) vs Kansas (9-1). Penn St won the game 15-14.
Wow! I remember that game as if it was last week. One of my favorite college football games of all time. Nice.
@@amypeterson4615 Yep! Bobby Douglas was the QB for Kansas (later @ Chicago Bears) It was a GREAT Game !!!
@Notnek202 Kansas, HA. They were atroious.
65 2 wins
66 2 wins
67 5 wins
68 9 wins
69 1 win
Who gave a shi.t and would have tuned in for an anomaly in 68.
These old games WITH the commercials are the best
hey ken ,,,,,,,,,,,,, mermorial day weekend ...2022 ....glad i came back here ..........thank u for the link ........not enough words to honor and remember the men and women we lost over the years from all the wars the U S A was involved him.........all gave some .........some gave all ......
In 1968 my family would be viewing this game on a black & white TV set in the kitchen.
Back when the offense used to huddle up about 15 yards away from the line of scrimmage and talk it over. The play clock must have been pretty lenient back in the day, probably was kept on field and up to the ref's discretion.
NFL mandated play clocks in 1976. It was several years after that before those showed up in college football.
I was in Vietnam when this game was played. First time I ever saw it. Go OU.
Love Oklahoma's band. And I'm an Ohio State and Texas fan
The four point stance...whatever happened to that???
Even on offense.
The calm before that storm known as 1968. How did you get this? Looking forward to watching this bit by bit. Thank you for sharing this sports jewel from a bygone era
I honestly can't remember how I got this one now. I think I traded for it with another video collector.
Very unusual to watch a OU football game without the "Boomer Sooner" fight song being repeatedly played every two minutes.
The 1968 Orange Bowl classic. There was even a cigarette commercial.
I recall there was the Orange Bowl Parade taking place the night prior to the Orange Bowl Game; whereupon the most prominent parade floats were put on display at halftime during the Orange Bowl Game; which is what you are seeing at halftime in this video.
Bob Johnson is the only Bengals player to have his number retired.
I have never seen goalposts so short.
Commentators:
Jim Simpson & Kyle Rote
Kyle Rote’s son later became the spokesman for athlete’s foot.
Kyle Rote attended my high school
Tn. HC. Doug Dickey Throwing for over 3300 yards in 1968, in the era of the I/WING and WISHBONE.
1968 orange bowl but 1967 season.
I was not born yet when this game was played I enjoy watching tho
FUNFACT.....Oklahoma had only allowed 68 points scored against them in TEN GAMES
THE ENTIRE SEASON 2:54
Sure can't say that about OU's defense nowadays
You actually heard their majors in school; and people actually seemed to care that they were students.
Lol, and the stadium announcer, seemingly confused, described at least two Tennessee *upperclassmen* as just “going for [their] BA.” In my mind, he was reading off his list of players and their majors, and next to each of those guys’ names was just a crudely drawn Confederate flag.
Richmond Flowers was a world class track athlete who chose Tennessee in part due to how his dad was treated in Alabama.(His dad was attorney general and had to deal with all of the civil rights issues). Bear Bryant wanted him but didn’t hold it against him for going to UT. When the younger Flowers applied to Law School at Alabama Bryant gave him a glowing recommendation
Keith Jackson when Shotts goes in motion 95% it’s a pass lol. Thanks for letting Tennessee know Kieth.
Don't blame Keith. He wasn't doing that game.
Amy Peterson Oh it might not have been. He did a lot of the games but he might have come later.
@@ronniebishop2496 He may have done the earlier in the day Rose Bowl game. I can't remember.
That's not Keith Jackson doing the color; it's Kyle Rote, a former NY Giants running back. I agree he does not know doodly about the players in this game or what's going on. Maybe too much head shots....
Bob Kalsu, the only active NFL player killed in Vietnam...
James Satchwill he joined as an officer
I remember at the time thinking that the seniors would be subjected to the military draft after they graduated. 1968 would be even worse than 1967 in Vietnam. Very bad time in our history.
Just had to post. I don't know what to say. Seeing him (I had heard many reports on various television shows over the years, but don't ever remember seeing pictures of him [except perhaps a shot of a bubble gum card] let alone video) was very moving.
Del City H.S. grad
Del city high stadium is named after him
02:50:56 Wow, look at this ref creeping in towards the action. Good thing they didn't run a sweep his way!!!
We have this entire game, but the second super bowl played a couple of weeks later, no copy exists. That’s just not right.
Unfortunately the NFL let the Sabans have pretty much all control and so most games ended up on The Cutting Room floor. They chop them up and use them in their little highlight films and stuff they should have made copies and then done that but. The only thing that exists at the first two Super Bowls has kind of a TV radio merge in some of the plays are not there just you know it's just a picture it's not the complete with Huddle's and everything however the third Super Bowl does exist and its entirety I will try but it may get blocked
Virgil Moody I have almost all SB 3, last few minutes of 4, part of 5, (network broadcasts) after that they’re pretty much available. Have a few plays from Super Bowl I, SB 2 is the only game I have nothing from the original broadcast.
I guess we all can take some comfort in knowing that the first two Super Bowls weren’t competitive games. The Packers dominated both games, as far as I can recall. They certainly dominated on the scoreboard. It would be a greater loss if the games, themselves, were great games. Still, as you said, it would be nice to have them on tape for their historic importance, if nothing else.
@@vwm8534 Networks also were not as proactive in keeping master tapes as they are today. That's a network issue. And FWIW CBS televised Super Bowl II and they were REALLY bad at keeping master tapes
Sabols…not Sabans
Chuck Fairbanks looks like the high school shop teacher.
GD Spradlin -- the senator in Godfather II, general in Apocalypse Now -- makes a cameo in a TV ad at 2:50:00...
Dude was a great actor. North Dallas Forty and Godfather 2
Real name was Gervase Duan Spradlin. Tremendous character actor.B.W.
It's interesting how when they announced the players they also stated their college majors. That's because in the old days college players were actual student-athletes. Of course today this no longer exists, which is unfortunate, because of all the players they introduced here, I think only two made it to the NFL: Steve Owens and Eddie Hinton, and even then their pro careers were very brief.
Steve Zabel also.
Richmond Flowers played a few years as a DB for Dallas and the NY Giants. Dewey Warren had a cup of coffee with Cincinnati. Liggins IIRC was an all pro in the CFL.
@@chrisrose6014 Yeah, I thought I would miss maybe one or two players. But my point is that the majority of the players here ,as well as in general, don't make the pros, and as you correctly pointed out, their pro "careers" are mostly short-term.
OU had four #1 draft picks in this game; Steve Owens, Eddie Hinton, Steve Zabel & Jim Files.
Also too, #54 for Tennessee, center Bob Johnson was the starting center for the Cincinnati Bengals from 1968 through. 1977.
OMG love those commercials
Warmack was most valuable player
Awesome History
Awkward player introductions, even the linebackers and receivers play with a hand in the dirt. I miss this .
Its called a three point stance...hands in the dirt😄
as a kid in the backyard, we would do "player introductions" before starting our games!
Tennessee players looked like they were mad at the whole world, lol
Why the heck did Oklahoma's coach choose to go for it on their side of the 50 at the end of the game?
As I understand it, Fairbanks (OU's coach) didn't want to give the ball back to Tennessee because they were moving the ball really well. "Hacksaw" Reynolds made a great play on Owens.
Like Joe Friday (Jack Webb for the TV ignorant) said: Just the game please. None of the nonsense they cram onto the screen today. If you pay attention to all the baloney they peddle you'll be exhausted by half-time.
I was wondering if that was the late Milo Hamilton doing the intros at halftime.
tomloft2000 Milo used to say “Hotter than a depot stove.”
Man those goalposts were short! Must've been a lot of hard judgement calls when the ball went higher than they were.
There are still some people today who claim that last field goal was actually good.
No the college football goal post where on the end line back then ever since the 1920s or so
Virgil - how did you get this tape ? Long before VHS and camcorders, so wonder if you have contacts at NBC where this must have been in their storage vaults ?
I actually got it from someone else person that I share videos with I have several people that we trade I don't know where he got it
I didn't remember how great a jumper SO was. Almost like Joe Washington.
Sorry, I do not have the Rose Bowl. Sure wish I had a good copy.
I was a couple of months old when this happened.
I was wondering if you had the Rose Bowl which aired immediately ahead of this game on NBC (I know it's on film on CZcams, but I wanted to see if the video was around). Also, which Bowl game preceded the Rose Bowl since it was noted here the Orange Bowl was the last game of a tripleheader?
Well the Cotton Bowl and the Sugar bowl were the other two bowl games played on that day. I looked it up the Cotton Bowl was on CBS that year and the Sugar Bowl was on NBC, so the other game in the triple header was the Sugar Bowl.
@@robertperry8392 Thanks. It would have to be by process of elimination.
1968 Sugar Bowl, LSU v Wyoming, 1968 Rose Bowl, Indiana v USC (IU's only Rose appearance,).
On my way to the convenience store to get me a pack of Salems because they refresh my taste. 🚬
Any chance you have the Ice Bowl which was the day before this game?
Only thing I have is on here. It is supposed to be almost every play from the game with player comments.
Notice how low those dlineman got for Oklahoma. Really beutiful
That's because OF lineman in that era could not extend their hands. Keeping their hands at their chest, they drove the D linemen & LB's backwards by taking their legs out from under them. The cage drill taught this technique.....
Doesnt change the fact tenn defensive lineman did get that low
Shirt-helmet contrast shows the evolution of Oklahoma's colors.
Kind of weird isn't it? They've gone from maroon to almost fire engine red.
@@feddyvonwigglestein3481 Afterward, they went a bit darker in the mid-70s I think. Helmets at least.
An optical illusion due to the lighting and TV cameras of the day. The plastic helmets merely reflected light differently from the jerseys. Look at film of an OU day game back then. OU always wore crimson jerseys.
The colors are still the same it is how the light or camera capture the color Crimson is the color
@@feddyvonwigglestein3481 The Oklahoma Sooners color is Crimson not maroon
That was a different world back then. I don't recognize anything.
2:49:47 Oil filter commercial with G.D. Spradlin aka Senator Pat Geary, Godfather II, Coach BA in North Dallas Forty, the General in Apocalypse Now.
Dewey Warren could hum that tater. Remember watching this with my Dad. I miss him greatly.
How long did that play by play guy do Orange Bowl. Sounds like same guy who did 77 Orange Ohio State Colorado
No more Pontiac
How times have changed. Two black men starting, both on OU. Blocking rules for linemen that were small and mobil. Cigaret commercials!
Cool that they both wore dark (Home) jerseys
Anyone else getting this left channel only?
This telecast pre-dated stereo TV audio by about a decade's time.
Do you have any connections to get Harvard/Yale '68? It's on film but the actual broadcast would be better.
I don't have a copy. I would be surprised if there was an actual broadcast of that game.
@@vwm8534 Yeah, it had to be a regional broadcast. Ivy League isn't that big of a demand.
P.S. I found a kinescope version of the ending with the game call. czcams.com/video/BbtGrqS4Z-k/video.html
@@hughjass6337 lol at your name
When it came to regular season college games, ABC-TV had a near lock with the NCAA for football games telecasts back then.
NBC and CBS generally carried the post-season college bowl games.
Warmack wad a second team quarterback. From Ada.
Could I go back in time to 1968? 2022 is shite!
Invent the flux capacitor. It’s what makes time travel possible.
Both sides wearing “home” jerseys?
Probably a mix up about who was wearing which color jersey
Awesome a cigarette advertisement.... so vintage.
I watched this game live
Bob Warmack was from Ada? Wow
The final field goal was good
Dennis Dewald The kicker disagrees.
Not sure how you got that. The ball is out of frame, way to the left, and never comes back into frame. It seems very very obviously missed.