1965 Rose Bowl: Michigan 34 Oregon State 7

[@scoutxr247]

I had no idea this game was available here. Paul Brothers, OSU quarterback, was my high school basketball coach. Thanks to whoever posted it.

[@lennielefler2081]

I remember watching that game. I was 18 living in San Diego as my parents moved us from Detroit in 1954.... Al Kaline. Joe Schmidt. Gordy Howe-- And my. Michigan Wolverines!!! Always was and am a. GO BLUE fan

[@donhula5298]

Lifelong Beavers fan. I’ll never see them play in a Rose Bowl in my lifetime-but we’ll always have 1941.

[@51brianh]

I was at this game with my Dad, Mom and little brother. My Dad was a 1947 U o M alumni and a friend of Pete Elliot. We lived in Upland, CA about 20 east of the Rose Bowl. Dad was the Sports Editor of the Michigan Daily before the war at Michigan and was great pals with Tom Harmon. After the game we went down on the field and listened to fantastic UoM Marching Band. Ironically, we moved to Oregon in 1967 and I ended up graduating from a small teachers college 15 miles north of Corvallis where of OSU is located.

[@richardplate9573]

Loved this Michigan team,Bumps best!! Carl Ward was my idol as a kid.My son ended up playing on 3 Rose Bowl teams for Bo!

[@fredyucht9003]

Many great Michigan players on the roster.

[@ggoblue]

this was the first michigan game i can remember watching...the whole family gathered together for this game. we still lived in detroit back then.

[@davesmith5568]

This was Tommy Prothro's last Oregon State team. He would start coaching at UCLA in 1965.

[@timothyernest6429]

Fine coach

[@stephaniegormley9982]

Only coach in history to lead different teams to successive Rose Bowls.

[@scootdaws25]

First Michigan game I ever watched. I was the only one watching the tube and thought, oh cool, Michigan has a football team. It seemed like sort of big deal. I think it might have been the first college game I ever saw, too.

[@stephaniegormley9982]

"Wow, we're 4-0 all time in Rose Bowls. Will we EVER lose this game?" -Michigan fan, New Years night 1965

[@wolverines74]

Andy Go Blue -Your the Greatest. I thank God you found this. It means so much to me and old wolverine. God Bless and Go Blue "74

[@LizzyQween]

I love watching my dad play football. Kids don't get that opportunity often. Go Blue!

[@LizzyQween]

Gary McMichael yes 63 he blocked the punt. 5:15

[@JHarder1000]

@@LizzyQween More impressively, he blocked a punt by a team coached by Tommy Prothro. That happened rarely. Very rarely.

[@wmontanez27]

It was neat watching 65 football.

[@bold58]

Timberlake and Detwieler were both 6' 3" and about 220 lb. Big guys for their time !

[@WolverineHistorian]

I found someone online who had a copy. Games from the 70's and earlier are extremely hard to find because rarely were games televised back in those days. And Michigan fans are always worthy.

[@pedalboy]

Boy what memories! Bob Timberlake was my first football hero then. That was a great team and had a couple guys who went on to great careers in the NFL. Tom Mack and John Henderson in particular. Tom Mack is a great guy by the way. Met him when he did a tour of NFL Players to military bases years later and had a great time with him there. We sang The Victors together! We talked about this game also.

[@jloo6274]

Fun fact, Tom Chicchini is my cousin Tom was the Team Captain

[@NURREDIN]

Mel Anthony was my next door neighbor back in Cincinnati!

[@harveybullocks1281]

i read the game recap in the Daily archives for this game, apparently the marching band played "She Loves You" by The Beatles as part of the halftime show, one of the first times rock music had appeared in a college marching band halftime show.

[@harveybullocks1281]

It was his only one as a coach. He won one as a player with us in the 40s. The rose bowl from that year is here on youtube, you can see Bump catch a TD pass in it.

[@51brianh]

I was at that game as a 13 year-old. My Dad was a UM graduate and my mother and 6 year-old brother were there also. We lived in Southern California at the time and Dad was good friends with UM Coach Bump Elliot. Ironically, we moved to Oregon 2 years later and I attended a teachers college 17 miles north of Oregon State!

[@billsblots]

Thanks so much! I have not seen any of this game since I saw it live, on black and white TV, on January 1, 1965. That legendary backfield and defense lives on today in the hearts of those who witnessed them. Awesome, thanks.

[@cynic2all]

While I don't remember this game-- the earliest Rose Bowl I definitely recall was 1969 Ohio St. v. USC-- I do remember what a special day New Year's was back then in the 60's. The Orange, Sugar, Cotton, and Rose Bowls played on New Year's Day, but no others. There were only 4 or 5 other "minor" bowls anyway-- the Bluebonnet (Houston), the Liberty (Memphis), the Gator (Jaksonville, FL), the Sun (El Paso, TX), the Peach (Atlanta). That seems more like how it should be-- not as today where if a team wins 6 of 12 games they can play in one of about 30 or more of them.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Bowls had great distinction and were exciting to anticipate where there weren't almost as many of them as there are teams, like today. Seriously, the big 4 on Jan. 1 were classics.

[@wolverine58]

great job andy this was the first year I rooted and found michigan football thanks again great job

[@WolverineHistorian]

I knew you would love it most of all. Happy to bring back a childhood memory for you.

[@susanhayden4446]

The first rose bowl game I attended. still have my ticket and program. Michigan at the end of the season was the best team in the country...I had many friends on this team and some members who were too young to make the trip...Tex Spencer and the future Athletic Director at Michigan...great talent and great guys as well!!!

[@JHarder1000]

The 1964 Michigan team was the greatest Wolverine team between the 1940's and the Schembechler era. This bowl game was controversial, because most people thought USC should have played instead of Oregon State, but the Beavers were very good, having beaten great Syracuse and Oregon teams. Their running game was ordinary at best, but they relied on a furious, blitzing defense, passing, kicking, and Tommy Prothro's trick plays.

[@hv3926]

F USC. The Beavers earned the right to get their a*ses kicked by Michigan fair and square.😃

[@44032]

I love stuff like this. I'm not even a Michigan fan but grew up in the 60's and any vintage film from that era or before is catnip to me.

[@devastator226]

Well you can be it’s easy mmmmkay

[@kobraf150]

WOW! The only footage of this game I ever saw was on my VHS of "Hail to The Victors" which was made in 1995 and it was maybe a minute worth of highlights with Mel Anthony bursting through their defense. Epic post!

[@dcbandnerd]

"The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC."

[@FiddlePig]

A 1-point loss to Purdue was all that separated the Wolveriines from the National Championship... back in '64. UM blew a tight game wide open in the 2nd half, as I watched on TV with my dad.

[@WolverineHistorian]

I have no idea. This game was waaaay before my time.

[@RikSchneider]

Looks like Oregon State has had some previous Rose Bowl experience

[@wolverine58]

I was a young lad in 1964/65 when I became a Michigan fan that season....I lived in Monroe Michigan only 25 miles from ann arbor and i had to go to UM hospatial for checkups for a kidney conditition I had and we always stop to watch the players practice

[@goblue918]

Wolverine Historian does it again! Go Blue!

[@JHarder1000]

The game was an defensive battle for one and a half quarters. Then The Beavers, led by Paul Brothers, completed seven straight passes and jumped out to a 7-0 lead. tommy Prothro then made a strategic blunder, He thought he could sit on his lead and rely on the "Mad Dogs" of the defense and Al Espalin's punts to get good enough field position for a few field goals and win the way he usually had that year, 10 to 7, or 13 to 10.His theory was disproven. HAIL TO THE VICTORS,

[@millardhale85]

Ain’t that something!

[@theredbaronlives9889]

The last Rose bowl Michigan would win until 1980 and AC#1

[@CarmieSchulz]

People were so patient back then. Bump Eliott was only 51-42-2 as a coach but he lasted 10 years. They got Hoke out in 4 seasons...with a better record!

[@CarmieSchulz]

dave4248 If what you say is true then it goes to show what I've always said: big profits don't end up in workers wallets. The majority of people attending today's game are there due to corporate freebies handed out at work or won in contests because hardly anyone can afford to go. I'll bet workers had more purchasing power in 1968. College football used to be a great love of mine but the deregulation of the 1980's hurt it very badly along with our country. I can't watch anymore, although Harbaugh might generate some interest from me because I like him as a person.

[@beedub93]

where did you find this gem? Awesome! We truly are not worthy....

[@JHarder1000]

yes, After this game, he knew that after you jump off to alead after a favored rival, you ALWAYS go for the Onsides kick.

[@marcostar57]

Was the announcer Bob Blackburn? He was later the ionic voice of the Seattle SuperSonics.

[@guyNbluejeans]

Pretty cool. In that year, '65, I was a reprobate of the first order living on "the 5th level" of a children's insane asylum in Ann Arbor. Since then, The Good Lord has been using a corrective bullwhip on my foolish soul and thus in recent decades things have lightened up a bit and aren't too bad .... It sure is cool that we have the technology to capture the sounds and sights of such events from way back then, really just amazing when you stop and think about it. Thanks Much for posting this!

[@WolverineHistorian]

No. That's the NBC announcer.

[@BigBlueBri]

So is that Bob Ufer announcing?!?!

[@marcostar57]

Anyhow, I'm pretty sure it is the same guy -- having grown up in Seattle listening to the Sonics on the radio; his voice sounds the same & how many Bob Blackburns were sportscasters -- (sic) I meant to say iconic voice...

[@WolverineHistorian]

Yeah. I loved that video but they really rushed through alot of those old games.

[@harveybullocks1281]

No, he didn't, Bennie Oosterbaan coached that team. and i know he certainly wasn't playing for then then.

[@wolverines74]

God , You have a great football coach up in Heaven. Glenn E. "Bo" Schembechler's his name and he always believed in YOU and all you wanted us to be.The Team, The Family, Together- Go Blue and God Bless

[@fredyucht9003]

Bump Elliott was the coach then.

[@TheTeaserking]

what was the line? I guess Mich covered TK

[@jaydumas6211]

11

[@davesmith5568]

What happened to Michigan in 1965? Didn't UM have most of their starters from 1964 returning for 1965? I can't believe they lost at home to a mediocre 6-4 Georgia football team at home.

[@deedonnerramone4757]

Dave Smith All about the chedd'ah! That's Black prison speak for money,

[@randallbrown8495]

Their star quarterback Bob Timberlake graduated and their best running back Jim Detwiler blew out a knee early in the season. They had nobody capable to replace either, esp. Timberlake.

[@razorbackfilms]

Dave Smith did the switch from single platoon hurt Michigan?

[@ThePretzelHead]

Why title these with final scores? Spoilers.