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Notre Dame was killing USC 24-0 with a minute left in first half of the 1974 game in Los Angeles. Anthony Davis caught a TD pass to close out the half, then returned the 2nd half kickoff for a touchdown, and USC ran off 55 straight points in 17 minutes. 5
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CLASSIC IMAGE: Yogi Berra
Jesse Owens of the United States wins 4 gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Nebraska Cornhuskers Shuck the Oklahoma Sooners in 1971 - The college football game of the century
Cornhuskers Shuck the Sooners
November 25, 1971 Nebraska 35 Oklahoma 31
Norman, Oklahoma
America has been waiting for this game all season. as No. 1 Nebraska riding a 29 game winning streak and the nations #1 defense came in to Norman to face the No. 2 Oklahoma Sooners who boasted the top rated offense in the country, coached by offensive coordinator Barry Switzer, and averaging 45 points a game.
Nebraska’s player of the year Johnny Rodgers ran back a 62 yard punt return early, and yet the Sooners still took a 17-14 lead into halftime.
In the second half Nebraska’s Kinney punched in his third touchdown run to take a 28-17 lead, but the Sooners came back to take a 31-28 lead. With 7:05 to play in the game the Huskers slowly but effectively marched 74 yards and scored the winning touchdown. Nebraska radio play by play Lyell Bremser proclaimed, "Man, woman and child I never thought I would live this long to see this kind of a football game."
Baseball has many wonderful stories
Dodgers play in World Series in LA in 1959
The Dean Brothers - Dizzy and Daffy
"Ernie" Banks, nicknamed "Mr. Cub" and "Mr. Sunshine" - always known for saying "Lets Play Two"
Mickey Mantle - worked in a hardware store in the off season
Dodgers and Giants introduce baseball to the west coast in 1958 in front of 78,000 fans
Dodgers play in World Series in LA in 1959
The Dean Brothers - Dizzy and Daffy
"Ernie" Banks, nicknamed "Mr. Cub" and "Mr. Sunshine" - always known for saying "Lets Play Two"
Mickey Mantle - worked in a hardware store in the off season
Game of the Day
1985 NFC Championship - Eric Dickerson and the Rams travel to frigid Soldier Field to face Mike Singletary and the vaunted '85 Bears defense, coming off a shutout victory over the Giants in the Divisional Round, as Chicago continues their Super Bowl run.
Who am I, and where did I play college football ?
James McMahon, Jr. starred for the Chicago Bears and played college football at Brigham Young University
When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.
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