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Posted on 6/21/26 at 6:05 pm to zappgator
For much of the 1960s-90s, local Baton Rouge affiliates showed the runback every Halloween night on 6 pm news. People looked forward to it. Somewhere along the way, a new generation of sports reporters either don't know of the fabled punt return or ignore it. Sad.
Posted on 6/21/26 at 6:25 pm to mdomingue
Hodson to Fuller.
Love that.
Love that.
Posted on 6/21/26 at 7:52 pm to zappgator
What is needed is that runback video with Kiffin’s face on Cannon’s body running thru Ole Miss administrators and donors.
Posted on 6/21/26 at 11:57 pm to soccerfüt
My standards of admiration are a bit higher than yours. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Posted on 6/22/26 at 8:34 am to Bayou
"I'm told I was conceived that night!.""People have forgotten the DEFENSIVE play Billy Cannon made near the end of the game that sealed victory. Without that play the Fightin' Tigers lose. I'm told I was conceived that night!."
That's cool! I was a 6 month old fetus at the time. One of the greatest games I have experienced. On Cannon's punt return I developed a migraine due to the compression waves in the amniotic fluid. Still remember my parents going crazy, as was my twin brother and me.
That's cool! I was a 6 month old fetus at the time. One of the greatest games I have experienced. On Cannon's punt return I developed a migraine due to the compression waves in the amniotic fluid. Still remember my parents going crazy, as was my twin brother and me.
This post was edited on 6/22/26 at 3:14 pm
Posted on 6/22/26 at 10:51 am to paulb52
68,000 in attendance, half a million folks swear they were there.
Posted on 6/22/26 at 1:10 pm to ClintonTigerMS
quote:
Ole Miss gave up a total of 21 points that whole season. And that punt return was 1/3 of that.
My father-in-law was a freshman at that game, and he maintains that Ole Miss team was the best visiting team he ever saw in Tiger Stadium. Better than 79 USC; better than 79 Bama. Best.
That one play cost Ole Miss the national title.
Posted on 6/22/26 at 1:28 pm to Shalimar Sid
Do you that after he kicked the extra point he played pro football became a dentist and printed his own money? Dude was so prolific.
Posted on 6/22/26 at 3:16 pm to Shalimar Sid
and he assisted QB Warren Rabb making the goal line tackle of the OM RB to preserve the win!
Posted on 6/22/26 at 4:20 pm to evantiger123
What was almost equally as impressive was the goal line stand to stop them from scoring, which Billy Cannon was a part of.
"Elmore at QB, he takes, he fakes, he does NOT SCORE!!!
Ben Leblanc hit him with the aid of Billy Cannon."
P.S. I can remember talking with an older Ole MIss fan(nice guy if you can believe that lol) in '95 in Oxford who said he was there in '58 and said he would never go back to Tiger Stadium b/c he was heartbroken.
"Elmore at QB, he takes, he fakes, he does NOT SCORE!!!
Ben Leblanc hit him with the aid of Billy Cannon."
P.S. I can remember talking with an older Ole MIss fan(nice guy if you can believe that lol) in '95 in Oxford who said he was there in '58 and said he would never go back to Tiger Stadium b/c he was heartbroken.
Posted on 6/22/26 at 4:22 pm to Thorny
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That one play cost Ole Miss the national title.
Oh, they still claim it for sure. And I guess that’s more legit than the SEC West co-champ banner from the year Eli fell down.
Posted on 6/22/26 at 10:17 pm to dstone12
Just 2 of the ORIGINAL photos I have of Billy getting oxygen on the sideline AFTER his ICONIC TD
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[/url][/img] [/url][/img] Posted on 6/22/26 at 10:49 pm to dstone12
yeah… earthquake game… and they actually ran the play twice, something messed up the first time, so they ran it again 1 play later, and scored!!!… and it is incredible that they were able to run it twice and get away with it!!!… i was at the tiger bar, in tigerland, and you could CLEARLY hear tiger stadium from tigerland and tiger bar!!!
Posted on 6/22/26 at 10:55 pm to Jauquismos
yeah… and the announcer said ' he does not score! he does not score!! ' he said it twice… and just an incredible moment, the whole game!!!… i am almost 68 years old and still get chills from this game!…
Posted on 6/23/26 at 8:35 am to zappgator
Later in the 1970's when Jake Gibbs was Ole Miss baseball coach at least 1-2 times every game LSU fans would loudly do the audio where Jake could hear it. "Jake Gibbs back to punt. Gets another fine punt away. Billy Cannon watches it bounce on his own 11 ..." Coach Gibbs would often just shake his head and say "Geeze, you guys don't ever let it go."
Posted on 6/23/26 at 10:21 am to LSUMike1
Yeah was there Eddie F stepped just OOB, then Hodson said run it again but stay in bounds bro. But recall they had still time on clock and forgot their QB but damn near completed a pass down near the 50 I think with maybe a time out . 
Posted on 6/23/26 at 12:11 pm to tigerinridgeland
Damn that's a legit cool story, bro. I never heard that before.
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