re: Were any of y'all at the 1959 Ole Miss - LSU game?

I was there, sitting on the west (home) side about the 35 yard line and about halfway up in the stands. Great seats! I was a student at Northwestern State College ( Natchitoches) at that time but was a LSU fan. Had season tickets in 1958 and 1959. Saw every home game both years.

About the 1959 Ole Miss game, Cannon's TD run looked so surreal because it was late in the game and it was getting foggy. Cannon caught the
ball after it hit the ground around the LSU eleven yard line and bounced right into his hands. He started running rather slowly at first,
bouncing off several Ole Miss tacklers. The action was on the east side of the field and Cannon was fairly close to the sideline.

There was a big jumble of players in the vicinity, both LSU and Ole Miss, because everybody was converging on the ball. Cannon kept
getting hit by Rebs, probably broke 4 or 5 tackles, and then near the 50 yard line he broke into the clear and nobody was going to catch him.

He scored, LSU kicked off to Ole Miss, and they proceeded to move the ball down field. Fourth and goal, inches from the goal line, I think it was Cannon and Warren Rabb that stood the Ole Miss QB, running a QB keeper, up inches from the goal line and the game was over.

Exciting? you bet! You can't imagine how that place sounded when Cannon scored on the punt return and again after that magnificent goal line stand.