re: Was anyone on here actually at the Halloween Billy Cannon punt return game?

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am 76

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I'm also 76.

My Mother-in-law was there on a date, she was 18.

The guy she went with (not my F-i-L) ended up being my High School football coach.

I was a couple of years away from being born, so negative for me as to being there.

I'll be in Oxford tomorrow though...

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I was there with my grandson, who was a freshman at LSU at the time. Great time!

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your grandson? How old are you? My grandfather was 29 at the time and is 88 now. You'd have to be over 100 years old to have been a grandfather in 1959, much less have an 18 year old grandson in 1959

I was 10 yrs old selling Pepsi Colas, 7Up's and I think Dr. Pepper's, in the metal buckets full of ice and drinks, mop buckets.

I walked up and down the cement stairs, selling my drinks. I was eventually told not to come back,

I could not stop watching the game

That was my first LSU game & my mother & I were sitting on the first row, upper deck, behind the goal posts, in the SE. Dad was with friends in the other end zone. Several things come to mind, one being Johnny Vaught had the Rebs punting on first down most of the second half, their defense was that good. So Cannon ran the winning punt back on a first down punt.Two, most forget but the Rebs had first & goal on the one with less than a minute to go & LSU, led by Cannon, Rabb, & Johnny Robinson, held them all 4 downs. On 3rd & 4th down the noise was insane. When the Tigers held, the noise was as loud as it was during Cannon's run. When Jake Gibbs, the Reb's punter & QB was later on coaching the Reb's baseball team, every time he walked out to the 3rd base coaches box, several fans behind the dugout kept playing a recording of Cannon's run. They did this every year Gibbs was coaching the team. When the recording got to where Cannon scored, all of Alex Box would scream "HE SCORES". Gibbs's face would get redder & redder as the games progressed.

Wasn't it Doug Elmore that we stopped at the goal line?

I was 13 listening on the radio. We had gone to every home game of the 1958 season, but Dad couldn't get tickets for that game. I think it was a matchup of No 1 and No 3. We were No1 as defending NC.

How many younger fans do not know that OM got a rematch in the Sugar Bowl, and won 21-0.

Sound familiar.

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g Johnny Vaught had the Rebs punting on first down most of the second half,

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While the Cannon Halloween run is always great, I prefer the replay of the destruction visited upon Ole Miss in 1970 by Casanova and Cantrelle and Mettenberger taking a knee against them with 5 minutes left in 2011

There are soooo many moments of us delivering utter destruction and humiliation to them....so many, so. so many

was on active duty in USAF. Wife & I went to a Halloween party. I watched on TV. Incidentally, Scotty McClAIN, who was a member of the 58 team, died last week. His obituary said that his claim to fame , was that he war running along side of Billy when he scored and his fame was that he raised his arms to signal a tough down.