re: Billy Cannon Talks Ole Miss & Halloween Night 1959

Coach Dietzel was quoted several times over the yrs as saying that what always stood out, to him, on Cannon's punt return was that the nite was off the charts hot & humid. He said all the starters on the sidelines were running on fumes by that stage in the game, and yet Cannon had the strength/guts to run the punt back and then, to get back on the field for O.Miss' last minute drive where it had first & goal inside the 5. Cannon was in on 3 of the 4 tackles to save the game. Warren Rabb, QB, and Johnnie Robinson, RB, were also in on the tackles. My first game in TS.