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Waxing nostalgic about LSU's first trip to South Bend on this date in 1970
Posted on 11/21/19 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 11/21/19 at 4:33 pm
1970 LSU Highlights This probably ranks as #2 in LSU fandom behind the 1979 Southern Cal game in terms of saluting and applauding a valiant effort that came up short. #2 Notre Dame edged #7 LSU, 3-0.
Notre Dame was unbeaten and had been ranked #1 the prior week but a 10-7 home win over a very good Georgia Tech team dropped them to #2. LSU was 7-1 with a lone loss to a terrible Texas A&M team on a freak,busted play near the end of the game. LSU did play the game vs the Aggies just a few days after one of their teammates, Butch Duhe, was buried after dying from a brain hemorrhage.
The Irish were number one in total offense behind Joe Theismann but LSU held them to only 227 yards. Notre Dame held LSU to 165.Notre Dame kicked a 24 yard field goal with 2:34 left for the win. The Tigers had missed a 49 yard field goal had a 34 yard field goal blocked.
Supposedly a Chicago Tribune remarked afterwords "if Notre Dame is Number One, LSU is Number 1-A." Great line,but the Irish weren't #1. In fact after Notre Dame's win over LSU, the Irish dropped to number four while LSU rose to number 6.Even odder in the last AP poll following the regular season, LSU had jumped to #5 and Notre Dame's loss to Southern Cal knocked them to #6. They then beat #1 Texas in the Cotton and finished #2.LSU lost to #3 Nebraska in the Orange who finished #1 while LSU finished #7.
Great game regardless. Hard to imagine now a game of that magnitude not on TV. Clip at the top just has 1970's highlights, but there are several of the Notre Dame game including a couple of savage hits on Theismann by Ronnie Estay.
Notre Dame was unbeaten and had been ranked #1 the prior week but a 10-7 home win over a very good Georgia Tech team dropped them to #2. LSU was 7-1 with a lone loss to a terrible Texas A&M team on a freak,busted play near the end of the game. LSU did play the game vs the Aggies just a few days after one of their teammates, Butch Duhe, was buried after dying from a brain hemorrhage.
The Irish were number one in total offense behind Joe Theismann but LSU held them to only 227 yards. Notre Dame held LSU to 165.Notre Dame kicked a 24 yard field goal with 2:34 left for the win. The Tigers had missed a 49 yard field goal had a 34 yard field goal blocked.
Supposedly a Chicago Tribune remarked afterwords "if Notre Dame is Number One, LSU is Number 1-A." Great line,but the Irish weren't #1. In fact after Notre Dame's win over LSU, the Irish dropped to number four while LSU rose to number 6.Even odder in the last AP poll following the regular season, LSU had jumped to #5 and Notre Dame's loss to Southern Cal knocked them to #6. They then beat #1 Texas in the Cotton and finished #2.LSU lost to #3 Nebraska in the Orange who finished #1 while LSU finished #7.
Great game regardless. Hard to imagine now a game of that magnitude not on TV. Clip at the top just has 1970's highlights, but there are several of the Notre Dame game including a couple of savage hits on Theismann by Ronnie Estay.
This post was edited on 11/21/19 at 4:41 pm
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Posted on 11/21/19 at 4:44 pm to I-59 Tiger
Watched that game on closed circuit TV in the assembly Center. How times have changed!
Posted on 11/21/19 at 4:48 pm to damnstrongfan
listened to at home, first day at home after basic and AIT...
Posted on 11/21/19 at 4:49 pm to damnstrongfan
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Watched that game on closed circuit TV in the assembly Center
You sure about that? Assembly Center didn't open until the fall of 1971. The dedication basketball game was in January of 1972.
Posted on 11/21/19 at 4:51 pm to I-59 Tiger
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Posted on 11/21/19 at 4:55 pm to I-59 Tiger
Catholics are just fricking weird man. I don't think God gives a damn who you pull for in a football game, lol. Let's not act like all of the players that play for Notre Dame are Catholics either, or were even raised Catholic. That's what I've always thought was funny about Notre Dame. They even have a black leprechaun now...I'm not racist by any stretch but I'm pretty sure that leprechauns (yes I know leprechauns aren't real) are not black. Lol, it's just comical.
Posted on 11/21/19 at 5:00 pm to ImayGoLesMiles
what on Earth are you talking about?
Posted on 11/21/19 at 5:05 pm to I-59 Tiger
listened to the game on radio and was very proud of my Tigers. Ronnie Estay damn near decapitated Theismann if I remember correctly
edit: we got em next year in Tiger Stadium. Was in the south end zone and saw some of the most famous goal line stands.
edit: we got em next year in Tiger Stadium. Was in the south end zone and saw some of the most famous goal line stands.
This post was edited on 11/21/19 at 5:06 pm
Posted on 11/21/19 at 5:20 pm to I-59 Tiger
Was there! First time north of monroe, la
Posted on 11/21/19 at 5:22 pm to I-59 Tiger
It wasn’t the assembly center. It was the gym armory which was at the top of the hill of south stadium. I was there too. In jr high.
Posted on 11/21/19 at 5:41 pm to ImayGoLesMiles
I'm Catholic I hate ND. Quit profiling me.
Posted on 11/21/19 at 5:45 pm to TigerFanNKaty
Drove a '69 Camaro hard through Indiana to get there...cold..great game...Capone, Casanova, Jones... ND fan leaving told us, "We didn't know you were that good!"..Northern suppession exposed by growth of t.v...lol
Posted on 11/21/19 at 6:24 pm to canyon
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we got em next year in Tiger Stadium. Was in the south end zone and saw some of the most famous goal line stands.
Was there, too. Was Amazing.
Posted on 11/21/19 at 6:31 pm to I-59 Tiger
was 6 years old and listened on the radio. Great memory, one of my very first as a kid. Then we crushed them 28-8 in Tiger Stadium the next year on national TV, which was a BIG deal at the time.
Posted on 11/21/19 at 6:41 pm to damnstrongfan
i did too but it wasn't the Assembly Center, it was the gym armory
Posted on 11/21/19 at 7:29 pm to damnstrongfan
Not the PMAC, but the Gym Armory. I was there, too.
Posted on 11/21/19 at 7:39 pm to I-59 Tiger
I was there sitting low in the end zone where most of the fourth quarter action took place.
Before the game I was talking with an elderly Irish fan (probably younger than I am today). He asked me, "Do you really think LSU has a chance against Notre Dame?"
I replied, "If we play our best game, I think we can win."
He said, "We have this receiver named Gatewood, and you've never seen a football player like him."
I told him, "We've got a defensive back named Casanova, and Gatewood has never seen a football player like him."
Gatewood was a non-factor in the game.
Before the game I was talking with an elderly Irish fan (probably younger than I am today). He asked me, "Do you really think LSU has a chance against Notre Dame?"
I replied, "If we play our best game, I think we can win."
He said, "We have this receiver named Gatewood, and you've never seen a football player like him."
I told him, "We've got a defensive back named Casanova, and Gatewood has never seen a football player like him."
Gatewood was a non-factor in the game.
This post was edited on 11/21/19 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 11/21/19 at 7:48 pm to I-59 Tiger
Remember it well. Back in those days you got S&H Green stamps. I traveled for a living and over several years accumulated about 75 books of Green Stamps. I paid for 2 tickets to Chicago with S&H Green Stamps. Damn I hated to lose that game. Not certain if Mike Anderson or George Bevan was the linebacker but whichever it was played a hell of a game. Long trip home.
Posted on 11/21/19 at 7:53 pm to jctiger73
it was insane in that cracker box - totally raucous and deafening
Posted on 11/21/19 at 8:15 pm to I-59 Tiger
I was at that game and the game next year in Tiger Stadium. During the week leading up to the game at South Bend the Chicago newspaper (Tribune, I suppose) had billed the game as “Unstoppable Force versus Immovable Object” in recognition of N.D.’s offense and LSU’s defense. The teams struggled back and forth during the game. N.D. almost scored early but fumbled near the goal line. LSU missed one field goal and had another blocked. Cassanova shut down their wide receiver star by being, as someone said, “in his jock strap all day.” I thought the game would end scoreless but N.D. benefited from one, possible two, very questionable calls which allowed them retain possession and slowly inch downfield to get into field goal range. The next year the Immovable Objects shut down N.D. for most of the game in an extraordinary display of defense.
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