Touchdown Thrills of 1950

[Music] a pigskin parade by the top ranking college teams of the year northwestern kicks off to ohio state carl sturtz takes it on his five and watch him run back with this one behind the phalanx of buckeye blockers he rolls past midfield into northwestern territory he's still making cracks down the far sideline on the opening plays sturch races 90 yards before the wildcats gang up on him just short of a touchdown fullback chuck gandy power dives and ohio state scores before the evanston fans have seen a full minute of football northwestern on the offense ohio state on the rampage the wildcats fumble watch and sherwin gandy recovers for the bucks ball handling like this makes the buckeyes baffling half back elway into the open those wildcats look like they're caged on this one 50 yards and into the end zone wildcats ball now they're gambling springer looks for a black shirted receiver but gandy turns the tables with an interception to score on a top flight defensive play ohio state 32 northwestern nothing [Music] 66 000 red hot fans in austin the southern methodist clashes with texas freddie benner's aerials to johnny champion and it's good for 40 southern methodist yards all-american kyle wrote dives over for smu and the mustangs are in the scoring column that's benner's passing again but this one backfires as babashans glues onto it and the texas steers are back in the ball game brother they can all pass down here ben tompkins spots ben proctor racing downfield he lets him have it he takes it on the gallop proctor on the loose hits pay dirt the texas deers kick off to the mustangs now watch kyle wrote run it back this could really turn into a stampede he comes back 30 yards a swivel hip demon back in the passing slot for smu the top flight pass to ben white in the end zone but it's not the mustangs day final score texas 23 smu 20. [Applause] the notre dame purdue clash machioli receives the irish kickoff fumbles butterfingers it again a bad start for the boilermakers against the highly favored notre dame team everybody knows purdue's the underdog but the boilermakers this wet and murky afternoon outcharged notre dame and schmidt rips off 20 yards there goes karestes plowing for a produced score mighty notre dame trails for the first time in 40 games the irish just can't get going nothing seems to work all-american quarterback bob williams sends a long pass on its way but snable brings it down for the boilermakers an interception he heads for the irish goal and runs it back 45 yards purdue is really pounding sophomore samuels on the throwing end schmidt on the receiving end and he brings it to the five-yard line gerestes plunges and he goes right on into the end zone and inspired purdue team leads notre dame 14 to nothing the irish get around to scoring but purdue walks off with top honors samuels tosses for the boilermakers as notre dame boughs 28-14 [Music] back east harvard kicks off to one of the greatest of a long line of great army teams when this classic started 55 years ago army was the underdog loser but what a difference today coach red blake's son bobby runs the cadet team from quarterback and brother he can pass he sharp shoots to jack martin on the army 30 and martin legs it across midfield to the harvard 35-yard line [Applause] switching from the air to the ground cadet gil stevens takes the handoff cracks off tackle rolls like a patent tank and goes all the way into the end zone they're seeing a superior army team pitted against an overpowered but fighting harvard here's an army kickoff and the end of any crimson hopes johnny west grabs the boot fumbles picks it up fumbles again the breaks of the game watch this another fumble and army recovers it's like this all afternoon touchdown touchdown touchdown this one blake to folberg harvard takes its worst leaking ever 49 to nothing [Music] way down south in dixie georgia tech's rambling wrecks start rambling against kentucky's wildcats in atlanta daryl crawford hands to bob mccoy sets it up and it's the same pair again as georgia tech scores in leads kentucky recovers quickly bay pirelli passes to clayton webb and it's good for eight yards and now with the t formation really running smoothly it's webb on the receiving end of her lateral and he scoops across for the wildcats kentucky's running its place without a hitch pirelli to wear began and it's good for 20 yards all american bay prairie air mails at the dom such in a touchdown a top drawer play by top door team trailing 27-7 tech never says die crawford gets the ball to joe cobb who drives to the end zone but too late kentucky wins 28-14 the ivy league's two top teams cornell and princeton the big red confident as they meet at princeton this afternoon kasmaier completes a pass to chandler the princeton tigers go to work and unbeaten cornell a starting parade of princeton touchdowns started from single wing formation they've got power speed deception and kashmir who's on the loose for 70 yards and a td here's what you call perfect timing and execution casmeier passes to reed who laterals to bonnell and he races to the two-yard line [Applause] jack davison carries it to the rest of the way something new has been added to old nassau coach charlie caldwell wears a big smile and why not princeton's as good on defense as they are on attack an interception and they're in scoring position the tiger wags his tail as he sees a moment later mccandless go over princeton blanks cornell 27 to nothing texas and oklahoma both undefeated meet in dallas oklahoma kicking off texas fumbles and the sooners of oklahoma recover big heath roars through texas like a tumbleweed in the windstorm before he's finally spilled out of bounds on the one-yard line sophomore billy vessels wastes no time and shortly thereafter savagely goes over for the td for oklahoma moments later texas is knocking on the door bruising byron townsend blasts down the middle and an inside trap pay for the touchdown that ties it up next period oklahoma's ball dick heatley throws for the sooners but bob dylan intercepts for texas at midfield and just look at that steered gallop right over the goal line [Applause] now it's oklahoma with arnold chucking to heath a 20-yarder to midfield the clock is running out oklahoma moves to the texas 11 and oklahoma trails 13 to 7. but now watch billy vessel sailing wide to the right twisting turning smashing over for a touchdown and the crowd goes haywire as the score becomes tied 13-13 now the crowd anticipating the opportunity for oklahoma to win as they try the extra point jim weatherall awaits the opportunity to boot we're awaiting the snap from center there it is the spot the kick it's good and oklahoma wins 14-13 the top kick among the top plays of the year [Music]