1973 coming out of the tunnel before kickoff....10-10 tie resulting in a deadlock for the conference championship. Big John Hicks, a dominating offensive tackle, classic kid Woody-style, led the assault and I believe finished 2nd or third in the Heisman voting that year. Even though we had been to the Rose Bowl the year before, the Big 10 AD's voted the Buckeyes into the game. Bo was apoplectic, very similar to Ufer's radio voice as he called the pre-game assault on the M banner......a legendary deed in the Buckeye annals. Great, great stuff. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
How did it happen? I would think that the people with the M Banner would wait till Ohio State was on the field then put it up when Michigan was read to come out.
Good question and one I do not know the answer to. An article about the legacy of 73 game: http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1998/nov/11-18-98/news/news1.html
I'd forgotten all that stuff. Pretty amazing to be 10-0 3 years in a row and be knocked off by the Buckeyes, not to mention being 30-2-1 and never going to a bowl. It was as silly a rule as the one that the Irish self imposed on themselves to not go to a bowl at all. Terry
Out here in the West, the great outrage that changed everything happened on January 1, 1965. That was the day that Oregon State was obliterated by Michigan 34-7 in a Rose Bowl game that they had no business being in. The Beavers had been clobbered 35-0 by USC in the conference showdown game, but the leaders of the old Pacific Coast Athletic Conference chose Oregon State to represent the league instead. The fallout from that debacle continued for decades. The Pac Coast Con was destroyed and replaced by the Pac 8, which eventually became the Pac 10. Tommy Prothro quit as Oregon State's coach and took the job at UCLA, and eventually was coach of the Rams. Oregon State's Heisman Trophy winner, Terry Baker, was drafted #1 as a QB by the Rams, who then sheepishly announced on his first day of practice that he didn't know how to throw and was also too slow to be a running back and would probably be cut... For those of you who miss West Coast shenannigans in the summer, here's an article to remind you of how less-than-serious some things are out here... http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/pranks/rosebowl.html 8)