even many pros kicked that long in those days. I remember we got lucky on a piss poor call of pass interference when Tony Hunter had no chance for a lame duck thrown by Blair Kiel. I then remember him almost trying for more yardage on a sideline route to stop the clock and thank God the Michigan guy knocked him out of bounds. I then remember seeing Oliver striking the ball thinking no chance, but then noticing the ref running up to watch it closer and by God it got over the goal post and the field was covered with people as if they were all Olympic sprinters. I got a piece of dirt that day and put in in my program after going out on the field. And I was 30 years old and still a kid and I am 74 and still a kid now because I cried after last Saturday's incredibly disturbing failure against a team we should have mangled.
I was at that game and it was amazing. I also saw the Harry Oliver field goal from 51 yards, not
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- Adding to comment below - What's your first real "ND Memory". Mine - '73 Sugar Bowl - murph92675 - 10:47am 9/9/24
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- Listening to a 1964 Thanksgiving Day radio broadcast of ND's last minute loss to USC to lose the NC. [LINK]
- Curly1918 - 11:16am 9/9/24
- Me too, as a ninth grader returning from my sister's wedding, I became a diehard ND fan that day. [NT] - THEISMANCARR - 7:45pm 9/9/24
- What a New Year's Eve ('73) that was ! Whew! [NT] - Irishize - 10:52am 9/9/24
- 71 Cotton Bowl and the rain game before it in Cali. That 70 team was good. Done in by an SC team - Frank L - 10:52am 9/9/24
- SC got every break that game. Guys for them were making diving catches even in the bad weather. - THEISMANCARR - 7:56pm 9/9/24
- My dad taking me to the 1960 ND / Purdue game at the stadium. - ELP - 12:13pm 9/9/24
- Perfect story book beginning. I was at the old bookstore before the 88 Miami game with my dad. - Frank L - 3:52pm 9/9/24
- I was at that game and it was amazing. I also saw the Harry Oliver field goal from 51 yards, not - THEISMANCARR - 8:07pm 9/9/24
- Thanks for the Oliver story. Watched that one on the tube. The Ufer radio call of it is a classic. [NT] - Frank L - 9:35pm 9/9/24
- I was at that game and it was amazing. I also saw the Harry Oliver field goal from 51 yards, not - THEISMANCARR - 8:07pm 9/9/24
- Perfect story book beginning. I was at the old bookstore before the 88 Miami game with my dad. - Frank L - 3:52pm 9/9/24
- Listening to a 1964 Thanksgiving Day radio broadcast of ND's last minute loss to USC to lose the NC. [LINK]
- Curly1918 - 11:16am 9/9/24