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re: Game Statistics from '59 LSU-Ole Miss
Posted on 10/17/13 at 12:20 pm to Godfather1
Posted on 10/17/13 at 12:20 pm to Godfather1
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Johnny Vaught actually did punt on 1st down a few times in that game.
I heard Johnny Vaught talk about Billy's return a couple years before he died on TV (before our 2003 battle with Eli) and he was still bitter about it. He said Cannon didn't want to return it, but the ball took a funny bounce and basically was going to hit him so he had to field it. It was pretty funny (but he was serious).
That Ole Miss team had 8 shutout in 11 games (including LSU the 2nd time around...reminds me of something). They only gave up 21 points all season (two other teams scored 7 points in blowout losses). No wonder they were bitter. LSU had similar stats too until Missy blanked them 21-0 in the Sugar. I'm not even close to being an old timer, but I just looked up the scores from that year out of interest hearing how good both teams were.
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Posted on 10/17/13 at 12:50 pm to Big EZ Tiger
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I heard Johnny Vaught talk about Billy's return a couple years before he died on TV (before our 2003 battle with Eli) and he was still bitter about it. He said Cannon didn't want to return it, but the ball took a funny bounce and basically was going to hit him so he had to field it. It was pretty funny (but he was serious).
Vaught was full of BS. The ball bounced about 15 feet high, dead straight. Cannon waited on it and then caught it on the run. Cannon was planning to field that punt all the way.
Posted on 10/17/13 at 5:37 pm to Big EZ Tiger
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That Ole Miss team had 8 shutout in 11 games (including LSU the 2nd time around...reminds me of something). They only gave up 21 points all season (two other teams scored 7 points in blowout losses). No wonder they were bitter. LSU had similar stats too until Missy blanked them 21-0 in the Sugar. I'm not even close to being an old timer, but I just looked up the scores from that year out of interest hearing how good both teams were.
1959 and 2011 were eerily similar, except it involved Ole Miss instead of Alabama. Both times the Tigers squeaked out a close, low scoring win in the regular season, and both times they were beaten 21-0 in the Sugar Bowl at the end. I clearly remember watching that Sugar Bowl on TV and crying as it became obvious we would lose. I had a premonition that the 2012 Sugar Bowl would end the same way, and damn if it didn't, except for the crying.
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