USC-ND '74 - The Anthony Davis Game
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- Notre Dame was killing USC 24-0 with a minute left in first half of the 1974 game in Los Angeles. Anthony Davis caught a TD pass to close out the half, then returned the 2nd half kickoff for a touchdown, and USC ran off 55 straight points in 17 minutes. 55-24 final score.
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Davis was an outstanding outfielder and switch-hitter on USC’s 1972, 1973 and 1974 College World Series, National Champion baseball teams. Playing with wood bats at the time, Davis hit .273 with 6 home runs, 45 RBIs and 13 stolen bases for the Trojan’s 1974 National Championship Baseball team. He is the only athlete in USC history to be a starter on 3 national championship baseball, and two national championship football teams.
He should've just stuck with baseball as a pro.
Davis played in one of the most memorable football games ever and possibly the most famous college baseball game as well when USC played Minnesota in the epic CWS game in 1973 against Dave Winfield.
He has 3 National Baseball Championships and 2 NCAA Football Championships. Only guy to ever do that. #LEGENDARY
Was he an All-American in baseball..? During his college career at Maryland (1972-76), John Lucas was a consensus All-American in men's tennis singles and as a point guard on the varsity basketball squad.
I was 12, a big USC fan and watched with my younger brother. We still talk about that game today nearly 50 years later.
I still haven't seen anything like it. 55 points in 17 minutes! Incredible!
Like it was yesterday!
I was 11 at the time. It is still the most exciting game I have ever watched. 55 points in 17 minutes of game time against the defending national champions and the nations top ranked defense! It made a lifelong USC fan out of a young Iowa boy.
Was at the game..coached #24 Marvin Cobb for USC..at Notre Dame Riverside, Ca.
Drove to game with my best friend and his bride as a wedding gift. Both Notre Dame fans..it was a somber drive back for them..years later we still talk about that game..
One of the Greatest College Football Games Ever...
I was lucky enough to work for the USC football program years later..
Fight On!
I was there. I was 24 years old and I graduated from USC in 1972. I have never seen or heard the stadium so electric as that night, everyone was standing up in the student section and the place was rocking. It was the greatest football game I have ever seen in person. FIGHT ON!!!
The most amazing comeback and beatdown in the history of American football. Period, end of report.
Remember this game like it was played yesterday. WOW!!! The Men of Troy really put on a show. Best comeback EVER!!!
Never forget this game, I was 9 and my parents went to dinner that night...My dad bet me that if USC won he owed me $5, if ND won, I owed him a $1....At halftime I thought that I was toast. When I woke next morning there was a $5 bill under my pillow....
Love my Dad !!!!
Most exciting sporting event that I have ever been to. To this day, I remember the deafening roar of the crowd inside the Coliseum, that didn't let up while all of those points were being scored in the second half. After Anthony Davis returned the kickoff, the Trojans momentum could not be stopped and before you knew it, the #1 Trojans had routed the hated. In my mind, the greatest game ever made even sweeter sitting in the Notre Dame section with my friend, who had graduated from ND
I was there above USC rooting section, with my then wife and friends. We got last minute tickets. I was no longer a student, so atte3nding was hit or miss. Ara Parseghian, Domer coach, said he could hear the roar of the crowd and Traveler galloping for ears after. He retired after that season !
I was at a Penn State Syracuse game in the Dome in 87 and I know the feeling of the noise level. SU hadn't beaten Penn State in 17 years and from play one, an 80 yard bomb to halftime, a 41-0 Syracuse lead. I had never heard noise so loud before. To this day I have a hearing issue and I trace it to that game. Watched this game as a 9 year old in Houston. We were moving to California a couple of weeks later. My dad and older brother were driving one of our cars from Houston and they had the game on the radio crossing the desert. My dad turned it off about Indio and when they got to Palmdale later that night he was shocked USC won.
I remember that game. Was a big Notre Dame fan then. I was 15 going on 16. That game broke my heart.
i remember halftime headin outside to throw the football with my older brother. ive never witnessed a comeback as impressive as that,until the 2017 rose bowl.fight the hell on
I was 14 yrs old at my friend's house in 1974 and we watched this game from kickoff to end. Most exciting football game I had ever seen. You'd have to watch a vid of the entire game to grasp what was happening and the fever pitch of the coliseum crowd. I still get goose bumps thinking about. Anthony Davis was a beast!
6 years later I was an employee at USC and worked there for 19 greats years. My daughter will be attending USC in January. How exciting is that?
Yes, you have to watch the whole game, also bearing in mind the result of the 1966 game, and the whole history of the rivalry.
I’m the same age . What a time for USC
Damn...yall knew you were gay at 14 watching these 2 jokes play
Great story
I was about same age I walked into a pretty big store and everyone was at the back, literally everybody there women too, watching the tv, I came bopping up “hey whad u watching?” Lol
USC class of 2009 here. One of my roommates told me he thought I was born in the wrong decade and would fit in the 70s better than today. I won't lie, I have a soft spot for 70s music, but I'm beginning to think he knew more than he let on...
I remember there was a representative of the BBC present for this game, who was interviewed right after. He was asked if he'd ever seen anything like this, and he replied, sort of at a loss for words, that indeed he hadn't. Neither had anyone else.
My mom, older brother and I watched it 2gether. At halftime he was running his mouth,..yadayada, mom only said: "Just wait". 49 points later he still hadn't said a word. Go SC!
I was 24 years old. I graduated from USC in 1972. I was at this game sitting in the student section with my girlfriend. We were in big trouble down 0-24 until the end of the first half and AD scored a touchdown. When we opened the second half with AD running for a kickoff return to the ND endzone, the electricity in the stadium was incredible. I think we stood the entire second half. I haven't been to such a great game as that. Then there was Stanford 2011. A Trojan never forgets these games.
I was in high school when I watched this game. Anthony Davis put on a show in the 2nd half!
I've always wondered what coach McKay said to these guys in the locker room at half-time that day. It was obviously one hell of a motivational speech!!! I'll never forget this game - for me, the best in football history!!!!
McKay in interview said he reminded team in locker room that his '64 team [Mike Garret and Rod Sherman] came back from large halftime deficit to beat #1 ranked Notre Dame ...
Thanks, Lynn! :D
pepoppins I remember the announcer saying that Anthony Davis had told the team to block and he would do the rest 😀
i ssked one of olayers what he said to the team.
he said we are getting the shit kicked out of us and left. Dennis Thurmond was the player...he said the seniors said the rest
In an interview Anthony Davis gave he said McKay talked about the 64 game and said McKay told the team the Irish would kick it to Davis and Davis would run it back. Davis said he thought McKay was crazy.
It was a was a totally awesome experience to be there i can tell you all that, from the band, traveler, all the fans at the game it was euphoric.
I was up on top of the press box ... a guest of the two Notre Dame film cameramen. What I saw in the third quarter that day was the most unbelievable transformation I have ever seen on the football field. It was as if the players had gone into the locker rooms at halftime and exchanged uniforms. I sat directly behind Ara Parseghian on the team bus on the way back to the hotel. The bus was very quiet.
I watched this game as a 16y/o Ohio State fan(thinking, oh crap the Buckeyes have to play them in the Rose Bowl). I always watched USC's games for the cheerleaders. I remember there was a BBC crew doing a documentary on US college football. They talked to one of the BBC guys late in the game and he says, "I say, that Anthony Davis chap is amazing".
haha I watched their cheerleaders too they always had the best BUTTONS on their tops hehe
I remember that rose bowl, it was close, but OSU lost 18-17.
I think the 60's and 70's produced some of the best football games ever.
I saw this one just before my 19th birthday, and it remains the most exciting game I've ever seen. Years later, in 2007, I visited a grade school friend in South Bend, and we had lunch at a downtown restaurant. We went to pay the bill, and there on the wall behind the cashier was a signed photo of Anthony Davis.
I remember watching this with my dad ('SC grad class of 1951), my best friend, when I was 10. It looked awful and he wanted to turn it off as we had guests who he wanted so badly to show how great the Trojans were. Just before the AD score to make it 24-6 I looked up at him and said something like "dad don't give up on USC". What followed was fantastic. I will never forget it. He always recalled me saying that to him. Thank you AD, Coach McKay, Pat Haden, Charles Phillips, etc. for giving me such a great memory.
Hi Craig! I too remember watching the Davis Legendary Return Kickoff Touchdown with my Dad! Guess the years have fuddled my memory. Always thought Anthony Davis performed this "Forever Touchdown Run" at the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day! Luv how the "formation shape" of the USC Trojans, leading out with "AD" at the start of his Return Touchdown Run (at 2:00), resembled an Indian Arrowhead!
Thanks. McKay was a classic. Real innovator even though that era people think of wishbones and innovation. I think in this and other broadcasts they mention he used all his running backs for kick-off returns... hands and decent blocking like Bell and Tatupu.
we played against Haden/Mckay ,Bishop Amat for cif champ in the coliseum in '69,see utube for game--charlie phillips was our safety at Blair--we won--Haden was unbelievable ---they call this A.D. game--it was really Haden,McKay that made AD happen--the defense got wore out watching Haden every play--guy could throw-a lot of our guys went to UCLA after hi school--our coach from Blair went to USC as offensive cord--we still all get together every fall-some have died....looking at the game 53 years later we look like college kids,its unreal the level of play,MaCallister,Johnson were our 2 famous running backs but the defense won the cif game,Macallister broke his ankle,Amat was tough,every damn play was a broken play by Amat on offense,Haden again!!!
I'll never forget this day. I was at a JC college football game in Northern Cal. When the announced the score at half time the whole stadium cheered and chanted beat LA. We were visting from Los Angeles. When the announced the final score my
family was the only people cheering in a quiet stadium.
I still vividly remember this game. I was 9-yrs old watching it on TV with my dad who was a USC alumn. At halftime I said the “Trojans have lost the game,” down 24-6. My dad sprung up off of the couch and yelled, “son, you never give up! Is that what they should do? As long as there is always time left you fight till the end!!” Well, he was right and I’ve never forgotten those words and that moment. I met Pat Haden 5-yrs ago and told him that story. He said the game meant a lot to him too, he even asked his girlfriend to marry him later that day after the win.
I had been dating my soon to be bride less than a month. She was the daughter and grand-daughter of SC grades. She graduated in '74, I did my master's in '78. Fight On
I saw this game and I will never forget it! Anthony Davis was unstoppable!
Is the 1972 game up on CZcams? Anthony Davis scored something like six touchdowns in that game, two of them on kickoffs. I went to that game, too. It was a great game and actually close in the third quarter. The Domers got really confident when they pulled within two points. Then they kicked off to Davis. Bad mistake.
I saw this game too - televised. WHAT a great televised fooball game that experience iwas ! ! !
I was at the beach surfing with a few friends that day in LA. We came home, drank some beers & turned on the game. We were disgusted at 1/2 time and turned on the "Son of Godzilla". We turned the game back on out of morbid curiosity. MF, What a change. The most exciting game can remember - Thanks for the memories - Geo from LA
I remember this game on Saturday afternoon ABC football, Anthony Davis kickoff returns.. USC Cheerleaders for the Win!
Those were some good days. I remember that game so well.
Greatest Comeback ever, Fight On
You know it's a big time game when the winner of this game wins the National Title most years.
USC/ND...best rivalry in college football. Miss me with OSU/UM....Michigan hasn't been competitive.
I'm a Sooner fan but remember that game vividly. Great video.
Incredible comeback by USC 55 unanswered points in the second half!!!
I remember watching the first half of this game, and then leaving to go to a high school dance. When someone told me what the final score was, I couldn't believe it.
I remember there was somebody, maybe a sportswriter, who turned the game off at halftime. Then later I think he turned it back on and a graphic came up: Second half scoring: USC 49, ND 0. He wrote that he thought it must have been yards gained rushing.
Killer wedge blocking to spring Davis on that KO return! Did the rest himself, of course, but great job by the wedge guys.
WOW! This was the first college football game i watch as a kid... And been hooked every since...
I watched this game on TV. I can still close my eyes and see Anthony Davis return the 2nd half kick off for the touchdown. Amazing game.
As a lifelong ND fan, i sure love those USC cheerleaders
Could be year after year the most beautiful in college football. CA girls.....
Jr year of highschool. Watched this with my dad . What a game . Thanks pop.
If anyone has the 1972 USC-ND highlights, I'd love to see that. I was at that game and watched Anthony Davis run back two kickoffs on the Domers.
czcams.com/video/njCFHcXtRMQ/video.html
Man imagine I was casually changing channels on a lazy fall Saturday in 1974 when I caught the kickoff watched from start to finish plus our Cablevision had 4 stations from LA and they would replay the game constantly one of the happiest days of my life was watching this game and then war of the gargantuas straight afterwood on khj la!!!!
The glory years! Student Body Right!
Sadly, I never got to watch these games, but I have a signed football jersey from Anthony Davis! I love watching these classic clips!
I remember this game. It was hilarious as my old man didn't think that USC would come back.
I remember this game. I was only about 13 and right after AD went 100 yards to start the second half the power went out. When it came back on it was 55-24 abnd we were like WTF? Defiantely a game to remember. ND was a legit top 10 team back then but USC played one of the great games every. Especially in that second half.
dsfddsgh - I was the same age, but our power didn't go out. We considered turning off the game at half time, but decided to stay with our guys and were we glad we did!!! WHAT A GAME!!!! I still send this vid to my French students who like American football, telling them this was the best game EVER!!!! What a come back and the proof that it ain't over 'til it's over!
I remember watching this game as a 16-year-old kid. I was rooting for ND but by the end of the game I was rooting for Anthony Davis. Never understood why he never did a thing in the pros.
Because he probably had a better offensive line at USC.
I was there! It was one of my first dates with my would be bride. She had graduated from SC the prior spring and was terribly embarrassed by the Trojans 1st half performance and wanted to leave. I convinced her to stay - we did not sit down the entire 2nd half! Burn Woody!!!! That was 40+ years ago now and I put my old CD of the game in the player every year on our anniversary - she looks at me shakes her head and rolls her eyes - but she is sitting next to me when AD runs that kick-off back and sets the old colly on fire! FIGHT ON!!!
Fond memories for us USC fans. Couldn't believe my eyes. McKay owed Ara one for his running up the score to 55 to zip a few years earlier. Ara did not look like chatting after the post game hand shake did he.
ND didn't run up the score in that game. They led 44-0 after 3 and their last TD was a pick-6. For that matter, USC didn't run it up in this game. Four of their last five TDs were off turnovers. They only outgained ND 410-367.
They attempted a field goal.. And missed it... The crowd booed as I remember. McKay lived up to his promise that that would never happen... Got his own recruits and was ND's nightmare while MC Kay wad around. Ask Ara P
My uncle played for SC from 68-71. Amazing. FIGHT ON!✌🏻
I like the songs and how they're synchronized with the action. Great job!
Watched this game as 9 year old in Houston, Tx. This is the game that made me a diehard college football fan for life. We moved to Southern California a couple of weeks after this game.
I watched this game! I was only 13 years old, but I remember this game. Wow Anthony Davis was a Super Star! It was all Notre Dame the first half and all USC the second half. What an Amazing Game. It shows what momentum really is!
This game is like 9/11 or 12/7 where most of us can remember almost 50 years later exactly where we we were and who we were with while watching it.
私は日本人です。中学3年生の時にTVでこのゲームを見ました。アンソニー・デービス、パット・ヘイドン、ジョン・マッケイJr.・アレン・カーターetc USC大好きです。
I recall Woody Hayes was doing color commentary for ABC when some of the USC crowd began to shout at the end, "Woody, you're next!"
This, along with Omar Hassan's miracle comeback from a horrific wipeout at 2009 X-Games, will rank as perhaps the greatest sports comeback of all time. QB Pat Haden deserves a lot of credit, as does AD, with his incredible ability to accelerate no matter how fast he's already going.
I remember watching this game with my father and grandfather back here in New Jersey. I was 14 at the time....
I got teary eyed. I love my alma mater. Fight on!
Yeah I've never heard the Coliseum as loud as it was that day. When AD took the opening 2nd half kick back the whole place shook. Payback for 51-0 Ara! Gotta love this rivalry.
I bet it was loud. I wasn't there but you could tell from the video that the fans were rabid.
I once heard Anthony Davis say... “we scored 49 points, in 10 minutes!”.. lol..
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
-Keats
@sckego: OUTSTANDING video and GREAT editing and applying audio. CLASSIC!!!
Notice how ND tried to pass cover J.K. McKay and Shelton Diggs with zone. Guess that worked out well for them.
I remember that my wife was out shopping, and I suffered the first half. She came home, and the cat was hiding (from the screaming maniac) in the basement. And I was VERY horse. When the game started, he was 'just' Antony Davis. When the final gun sounded, he had transformed into 'Saint Anthony'.
The day my Grandmother passed away. I was 12 and a huge football fan. My grandfather went to Notre Dame in the
1920's and Knute Rockne was his gym instructor. My uncle and great uncle both went to ND too.
Hey John: Did you know that when Knute Rockne was coach at Notre Dame he made his football teams take ballet? The "Rock" knew that balance was a key part of playing football and you learn a lot about balance in ballet If you think about, it a player on the ground is basically worthless to his team until he gets up again. So Notre Dame players had to go to ballet training.
On another note, I saw this game back in 1973. UCLA is my favorite team and USC is second. My two favorite games in college football are UCLA vs USC and USC vs Notre Dame. What a great rivalry. When halftime rolled around on this game most of the USC fans thought it was already over as Notre Dame had a very tough team that year. And then Anthony Davis came out in the second half and ran wild. It was pandemonium for all the USC fans and one of the greatest victories in the history of USC football. And in all fairness, Notre Dame has handed USC their ass more than once over the years. A fabulous rivalry. I only wish Keith Jackson was still announcing college football games.
Greymoose, I would have to agree with you. I have seen Trojan football games since the early 1950's as a young child. I saw most of the 1972 Trojan games at the stadium and it is the greatest team I have ever seen in my life. So many great players and McKay and staff were brilliant throughout the season. Memories that no one can ever take away from us. FIGHT ON!
Legend has it that when ND got back to South Bend they gave Rudy an atomicwedgie for failing to prepare them for the USC D in the second half.
I remember watching this game as a 16-year-old kid. I was rooting for ND but by the end of the game was rooting for Anthony Davis. Most spectacular thing I've ever seen on a football field. Never understood why he never did a damn thing in the pros.
I was there, no really. Sat in the student body section as a invite. No one sat down the whole second half. We were on our feet screaming the whole time. I just remember the refs kept helping Anthony Davis up after he was tackled.
That must have been some atmosphere to be part of.
Woody Hays had an awesome voice! Great rendition of "Rocket Man" coach!
I watched it live so long ago!😊
I was very young and it's still the greatest game I've ever seen!!!!
One of the most sensational individual and team efforts ever. This wasn’t Ara’s best ND team, but they came into the game at 9-1 and went on to beat #1 Alabama in the Orange Bowl.
I waws only 2 when this game was played, but I have an older friend who is a big USC fan who would always tell me about this game. It was awesome when this game aired on Classic. What an explosion!
I was 6 years old, and remember this game!
I had a bet (USC to win) with a friend and at the half gave up and we went out play golf. Returning later -what a surprise!
BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES BABY!!!
I remember Anthony Davis he was my favorite running back as a kid.
Always good to see Notre Dame lose. I remember watching it with my parents. You could have called it the John McKay game because he did pretty good too.
As a nine year old kid, I remember throwing up my thanksgiving leftovers after that 3rd quarter. Believe it or not ND was two quarters away from winning itself a 2nd national championship in a row. 1st quarter against Purdue gave up 24 and 3rd quarter vs SC gave up 35
This was a time when 5 foot 8 inch 185 pound tailback could excel at this game.
Greatest game I ever seen with USC - Norte Dame!
I think Irish coach Ara Parseghian had a psychotic episode after the game...he was never the same. lol...go trojans!
There is so much tradition and history in this rivalry..heartache and lost championships for both sides. Can't think of a better rivalry in CFB. Hate, but still the respect.
Guess I'll have to watch this video every saturday this fall during Covid. After we beat the Domers 11 times, I will declare USC National Champs !!!!
I was there..couldn't believe what I saw..Couldn't speak for 3 days after..
このゲームは、中学校の頃、近畿放送「カレッジフットボール イン USA」で見ました。解説はもちろん武田健監督。アンソニー・デービス、パット・ヘイドン、ジョン・マッケイJr、アレン・カーター、リチャード・ウッド・・・名前は今でも覚えています。当時、雑誌「タッチダウン」は隔月発行でカレッジ中心でした。また、ローズボウルも生中継されていました。このメンバーのローズボウルは３年連続オハイオステートとの試合でサザンキャルが18-17で勝ち、ナショナルチャンピオンになりました。（オクラホマの何かの罰則で、APかどちらかのみの1位でしたが）そうそう、この時の「タッチダウン」の表紙はパット・ヘイドンがアンソニー・デービスにボールを渡している写真です。まだ、その「タッチダウン」持っています
I watched this game live that day in 74 and the great thing about it was KTLA replayed oh 5-6 times and there was a local station that replayed all the N.D. games and watched that call also.One of the greatest moments in my then youthful addiction to sport.I wonder during that comeback was Ara P. thinking about the time he was up 55-10 or so and called a time out on the 1 yard line with 4 seconds to go to run up the score on McKay.
What makes the comeback so incredible was Notre Dame was pretty damn good. They beat Alabama in the Orange Bowl one month later. Had USC not converted the 2 pointer against Ohio State in the Rose Bowl Notre would have finished ranked ahead of them.
Still have the sports illustrated of that game. I to was 14
Well hey,, BOTH games involved great (unbelievable) COMEbacks,, (USC over ND in football in Nov 1974,, and Lakers over Mavs in Dec, 2002)! Only DIFFERENCE is,, USC (in '74) got a bit "earlier start" on their comeback,, than the Lakers did (over Mavs in Dec 2002). By end of the 3rd qtr of that NCAA game some 38 years ago, the Trojans were actually AHEAD of ND. The Lakers did not CATCH the Mavs until the final minute of that NBA game 10 years ago. Also, I DO remember that Philly-Giant game.
watched in awe... never forget.
Another brilliant USC English major. You must make a fortune off your poetry.
This is the game that made me a usc fan
I love this game! Fight On!!!
Does anyone know where I can buy a copy of this game?
This kind of comeback (by USC,, over ND) kind of reminds me of an unbelievable comeback in a pro basketball game that took place in Dec, 2002. Dallas Mavericks were visiting the LA Lakers. At the end of 3rd quarter, Mavs were up by 27. Garbage time, right? Not hardly! The Lakers made unbelievable comeback (in that 4th quarter) outscoring the Mavs by 30, as the Lakers WON the game,, and by 3. I know this is kind of like apples to oranges, but we now see how it aint over til it's over!