1966 Gator Bowl Tennessee vs Syracuse 12 31 1966

[@coophandluke3697]

I was at this game!! Little did I know, there was a receiver for Syracuse named Tom Coughlin

[@williamisenberger1073]

Wow, Larry Csonka and Floyd Little in the same backfield, I never knew that

[@green_guardian5]

Yep, both in the NFL HOF...go figure!

[@chuckthurmond]

Bob Johnson of Tennessee was introduced as being from Cleveland, Ohio. It's Cleveland, Tennessee. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@muffs55mercury61]

Thanks Virgil. I love these gems from my youth. Things were much different then. Freshmen were not allowed to play varsity football and there was no redshirting and off the field problems were quite rare.

[@CowSaysMooMoo]

They were UNREPORTED...not RARE...

[@shamsthecat1996]

Back when Bowl games were Nationally Televised on ABC instead of ESPN!

[@OldSchool845]

The irony, of course, is that ABC and ESPN are now owned by the same company...

[@WaltGekko]

Mostly because you now have stations managers of ABC affiliates who would scream bloody murder if it affected their local programming.

[@1219beta]

I was a ten year old at that game.

[@CKWolf-kq5wz]

ESPN didn't exist then, I'm sure you knew that.

[@WaltGekko]

@@CKWolf-kq5wz We know that of course. The poster was referring to now, not late 1966 into '67.

[@luke3501]

I remember watching this game. 4 years later I was a freshman on The Hill. :) Thanks for posting this classic.

[@obbor4]

Not to be overlooked here is multi sport star, punter Ron Widby. Ron lettered in four sports at Tennessee, and played in both the ABA and NFL. He was second team All-American, in basketball (averaging 22.1 points and 8.7 rebounds per game) and he led the nation in punting average his senior year, eventually playing for two NFL teams, the Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers. At the team's request, he gave up wearing the number 12, in deference to Roger Staubach, who paid him back by leading the Cowboys to a Super Bowl championship, over Miami, in 1971, allowing Widby to earn Super Bowl championship ring. Also of note is Syracuse's defensive lineman, Art Thoms, who played along with a pretty fearsome defense, for The Raiders, in the early to mid 70's.

[@madbrowniac7871]

Great catch by the way (so to speak). Chris Schenkel said that Ron Widby played the night before for The UT Vols basketball team in New Orleans. That is practically Deion Sanders in 1966!B.W.

[@pastorearl1]

Thanks so much, Virgil! I love these old games, especially with commercials. ABC was where I'd watch college football growing up. I remember when San Diego State went on national TV on ABC. It was a big deal, and a big loss for SDSU.

[@robparadise6099]

ABC 1960's College football broadcasts = THE BEST!

[@obbor4]

Professionals in place of babbling talk radio type hosts (and hostesses) filling up every passing minute of action (or inaction) with their own tiresome opinions and injections...

[@Smoothoperator65]

College football wass so much more fun to watch back then , there's way to much drama in todays game , constantly stoping to check replay ,or to see if someone got hit to hard! Way touch pro influence today!! I miss the old days!!

[@billykuan]

Your games with all the promotions and commercials are real time capsules of our past.

[@alanmacvean2053]

Paul Naumoff was my favorite All-Time Detroit Lions player , #3 draft choice after Mel Farr #1 and #2 Lem Barney ...really had a great draft !

[@JJJBRICE]

RIP Bill Flemming, Bud W, and Chris S.

[@merccadoosis8847]

Three broadcasting Super Stars who added so much to college sports tv coverage back in the day.

[@phixxxer11]

They'd all be almost 100yrs old.

[@victorkreitner754]

Nice of Tom Coughlin (#49) to help Floyd Little up after that long run. Yes, that Tom Coughlin who went on to win 2 Super Bowls as head coach of the NY GIants. Going undrafted in 1968 the following year he'd start his coaching career working his way through the ranks.

[@MrLittlebuddy]

Floyd Little and Larry Csonka in the same backfield. Pretty damn cool to see.

[@38Achilles]

Not Fair, especially for College.

[@rodcrawford5547]

Tom Coughlins also...he coached Jaxsonville a few years back

[@timrobinson7373]

I was 4 days away from my 5th birthday might have been looking at this game with my family waiting for 1967 to arrive good to see such a clean copy of this game way to pull these gems out of the vaults Virgil

[@johnjill3900]

My mom and dad went to this game. I was 5. I kept looking for them in the crowd!!!! Couldn't believe they didn't show them. LOL

[@ericarmstrong6540]

Same here. My parents went to this game and I was 5 years old, too.

[@RRaquello]

Bengals fan here. Tennessee's Bob Johnson was the original Bengal, their first draft pick ever. You have to have a center or you can never get a play started because you have no one to hike the ball. He was a great player and one of the heroes of my childhood. #54. Back then, the Bengals used to actually have some good teams.

[@RCmack]

The 1966 Gator Bowl IN COLOR! Color television was a very big deal at the end of 1966. Not even half of American homes had color TV sets yet!

[@CowSaysMooMoo]

Nowhere NEAR half!! more like 20%

[@royalsuttoniii6849]

Good to see this game like this back on KZbin. Now if the near pristine 1967 USC vs UCLA shows up again the would be just perfect. Not the crappy version currently up.

[@countdown2xstacy]

Grown men going to a football game wearing a suit and tie. Looking neat, clean and orderly. 👍

[@schmaltzythegolem4828]

countdown2xstacy Harumph.

while at home they are having ass sex

[@PresidentGas1]

Men back in those days ...... lounging around the house ... they were in a dress shirt, tie and slacks. Just goes to show the devolution that has occurred since then.

@@PresidentGas1 sitting around in dress shirt tie and slacks and watching Green Acres is not sophisticated dude

[@PresidentGas1]

@ Sophisticated? Who said anything about sophisticated?

[@brianjones7660]

so love the way the play by play guys says not only Joe Smith, but Joe smith a junior from Pumphandle Corners ,Tennessee 😁

[@JENDALL714]

I miss these days, everyone acted respectfully, from the broadcasters to the coaches to the players. If you were a fan, you were allowed to swarm the field after the game because fans were more respectful and weren't going to harm the field, except maybe tear down the goal post as was the tradition at the time.

[@lwmson]

It was actually a good thing that they stopped fans from swarming a field after a game ended. They did so because many of the players were getting mauled by zealous fans, and that's the last they would want after playing a game and having a sore body.

[@tperk]

All that ended around 1974. Field storming started with streaking followed by mass intrusions with criminal intent.

[@natch27]

This game was in the South in the heart of the Civil Rights movement. Syracuse had a few black players while the SEC had yet to integrate. I am sure racial slurs were being hurled from all sections of the stands. Just because many fans were wearing suits doesn’t mean they were on their best behavior.

[@basshuntet607]

Thank you Virgil Moody for this video. America sure was different then

[@ericcollins8794]

Yeah and real racist

[@dariowiter3078]

@@ericcollins8794 F*** off, douche bag! 🖕😠

[@harco22]

Johnny Mills coached me in 1972 and we watched this film between two-a-days. He made a fantastic catch but was nullified by a penalty. I remember him leaving right before it happened.

[@jeremycrandall2899]

Damn, I know everyone looked older back then, but at 11:10, how in the world is it possible that Tom Rosia was only 21 years old????!!!! Goodness gracious!!!! 😆😆😆

[@jchapman8248]

I remember watching Floyd Little play for the Denver Broncos in a game against the San Diego Chargers in the early 70s in SD. I was there with my Pop Warner teammates. We sat in the bleachers cheering for then QB John Hadl and the Bolts. Anyway, Floyd Little was great in that game. He reached 1000 yards in that game. Even though he played a great game, the Broncos still lost. He played for them when the Broncos were awful and were at the bottom of the AFC West.

[@DanielPerez-yt8dt]

Syracuse runing backs amazing, Floyd Litle and Larry Csonka

[@DanielPerez-yt8dt]

@bodeswell35 great players, members of the Hall of Fame

[@paulbudrean571]

bodeswell35 Coughlin later went on to a successful coaching career.

[@ericcollins8794]

@@paulbudrean571 future hall of famer which btw started with jacksonville

[@82dorrin]

Floyd Little's last game for Syracuse. One of the all-time greats for my Denver Broncos.

[@CowSaysMooMoo]

From Hillhouse HS in New Haven CT..............

[@lancehurley9743]

Holy shit...Larry Csonka and Floyd Little in the backfield...damn

[@peakperformancetrain]

Great invocation before the national anthem.

[@jehobden]

Bobby Morel (12:05) taught & coached at my school starting in the early 1980s. Richmond Flowers (12:30) was the subject of a tv movie in the mid-1990s from when his dad was Attorney General of Alabama.

[@franksantore2810]

Jon H, I bet you never called him by his nickname, " Baby."

[@jehobden]

@@franksantore2810 I never met Bobby Morel, but he was teaching the JHS kids at my HS prep school.

[@PresidentGas1]

Tenn. actually had a pretty damn good passing game considering the times. They looked quite modern in many ways. Good for them. I was always a Big Ten guy where it was simply willing your opponent to death on the ground back in those days. Nice to see a bit of passing .

[@mrtnt3462]

I was 2 months old at the time of this original broadcast... SO, I REMEMBER IT WELL... LOL!!!!

[@vwm8534]

😁

[@eastman7037]

Nice to see Floyd Little

[@MuttTheHoople]

America was a better place when they allowed cigarette commercials and banned lawyer commercials.

[@davidlafleche1142]

Even better before the government provided "free" health care.

[@senorkaboom]

This game was broadcast on Saturday, 12/31/66, I had just turned 12 on 12/18/66. Do not remember much what we did on New Years Day in 1967.

[@green_guardian5]

was born 12/22

[@merccadoosis8847]

Wholesome all American cheer leader girls add much to the video. Thanks for sharing.

[@CKWolf-kq5wz]

NOBODY WANTS TO SEE CHEERLEADERS DRESSED LIKE FUCKING CHURCH LADIES, SHOW SOME T & A FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, WHAT KIND OF PUSSY WANTS TO SEE THAT. TO HELL WITH WHOLESOME!!!! REAL MEN WANT TO SEE TITS & ASS...YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT.

[@jrm2383]

I've always had this memory of a football game on tv as a 5 year old during the holidays, with a house full of relatives. The jerseys were orange. I wonder if this is it.

[@vwm8534]

Maybe that'd be pretty cool huh. I know the first football game I ever watched was the 1968 Orange Bowl had Oklahoma and Tennessee

[@franksantore2810]

Virgil Moody, me too. Still think Karl Kremser made the FG

[@38Achilles]

Prayer before a game, wow, and KZbin or some snowflake hasn't complained yet, God Bless America.

[@CKWolf-kq5wz]

Nobody cares about people praying to a "FAKE DEITY"

[@brettpatterson404]

It’s funny how these are college athletes but most of them look like there in there mid 40s.

[@joeschizoid7762]

They were in their mid 40s. It was a secret that was never revealed.

[@WaltGekko]

That's because many of them still had 1950's-era hair. Not all men went to the longer hair that even by late 1966 was beginning to be viable.

[@JENDALL714]

@@WaltGekko My coach way back when, would not allow any hair hanging out of the helmet. He said if you were on the filed and saw a player with long hair, he was fair game to take him down by the hair.

[@davidwadsworth8982]

some were.

[@joeysmith7555]

The game moved along much quicker back then, no commercials every 5 minutes.

[@shanegalang9]

yeah and if a man got hurt a little it wasnt a 5 minute fiasco as though his head was cut off, he got his ass off the field and out of the way.

[@raidertony1356]

@@shanegalang9 very good point

[@joeschizoid7762]

The rights fees to broadcast the games were a lot cheaper, too.

[@elhombrenegro4999]

Maybe most likely due to more of running the football and less throwing the football and incompletions stopping the game clock

[@jeremycrandall2899]

At 15:30, that can’t be right. He musta meant that the line of scrimmage was at the 4 yard-line, which, in those days, woulda made it an 11-yard field goal attempt. Still, probably pretty hard to get it over the crossbar from that short a distance.

[@WaltGekko]

Larry Csonka would six years later be part of the 1972 Miami Dolphins, still the only team in NFL history to complete an unbeaten regular season with a Super Bowl title. He would also six years after that while playing for the Giants become one part of one of the most infamous plays in NFL history that led to "The Miracle at The Meadowlands" that wound up propelling the Eagles to the 1978 NFL Playoffs.

[@remmymafia3889]

Tennessee loses by one to the defending National Champions Alabama during the regular season. The announcer here said the kicker for the Vols, missed a 22 yd game winning field goal, as time expired in that game.

[@themadlad8540]

Bud Wilkinson was a classy gentleman

[@tracyrosenstiehl9454]

1:49:39 offers a close-up glimpse of Colette Daiute, the winner of the 1966 Miss Teenage America pageant.

[@WaltGekko]

She also appears with the Syracuse Marching Band at 1:28:08 and again at 1:32:00 and 1:33:13.

[@jerryferko8309]

thanks , virgil , this is so very cool

[@maskedmotorsdiy3575]

11:19 it's fullback Larry Csonka ready to bust some heads

[@remmymafia3889]

It's almost like his helmet is to small.

[@loyaldude10]

what a combo with Floyd Little at HB

[@robertperry8392]

I didn't realize Larry Csonka and Floyd Little were college teammates. I was also surprised when I heard Tom Coughlin's name mentioned. Coughlin was born in NY state so I guess him going to college at Syracuse made some sense.

[@randylovering24]

College football on ABC in 1966 in color

[@marley8318]

thanks

[@aknationproductions]

These two teams played the most important game of the 1998 season.

[@44032]

Weren't they kind of old by then?

[@abbadabbba232]

40:30 Isn't that David Hartman playing the mechanic guy in that commercial? That's got to be him with that very unique set of teeth. I guess this was before he was famous.

[@scottbrown7497]

When men were men and women were women

[@frederickrapp5396]

Scott Brown Long live the difference!

[@matta3968]

You got that right!!

[@PresidentGas1]

@INCOMUDRO JJPG IV And unshaved ....

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

Tiny men. Men back in the sixties where skinny 5'8 150 pound wimps. Did anyone even lift weights back then? Although you're half right, I think alot of women today could beat up the men of 50 years ago

[@WaltGekko]

That stadium is still there, albeit very small parts of it as it was mostly torn down and completely rebuilt in 1994 into what became Jacksonville Municpal Stadium (now TIAA Bank Field) for the Jaguars, who have called it home since then.

[@KenCostlow]

The ol' Tennessee 50 defense

[@jamessollazzo2966]

where the hell did you find this game? any chance of raiders at jets 1968 AFL championship game, shea stadium 12-29-68??

[@vwm8534]

God I wish I would love to have a AFL playoffs from 67 68 and 69. To my knowledge only highlights exist.

[@jamessollazzo2966]

@@vwm8534 jets/raiders jets/chiefs. NBC has to have the tapes somewhere?

[@WaltGekko]

@@jamessollazzo2966 They were probably recorded over and if they exist at all likely only on Kinescope. Videotape costs were astronomical in those days and would continue to be until videotape became much more mass produced in the 1980's. Networks often re-used videotape as a result.

[@richardoranger8774]

No one is wearing gloves. Today players cover up their bodies like mummies

[@muffs55mercury61]

Yeah isn't that the truth!

[@davidlafleche1142]

Nobody needs gloves in Florida.

[@obbor4]

@@davidlafleche1142 The gloves aren't for warmth (at least for the skill position players) they are there to act like 'stickum', but with universally better results, to enable backs and receivers to do with one hand what was once barely possible to do with two. Kind of like "training wheels" for the hands...

[@Susquehanna80]

Every player introduced on both teams except one was White.. Absolutely Wonderful

[@zvbx]

Yeah it was wonderful considering that Floyd Little gained 216 yards against that all white Tennessee team.

[@bbrant5925]

Wow. Floyd Little and Larry Csonka in the same backfield. I didn't know that.

[@robertperry8392]

This game was played exactly 36 days before I was born.

[@kevinevans5921]

15 days before the first super bowl

[@davidcobb2693]

Syracuse gained 348 yards rushing but still lost!

[@williamdunphy352]

Commentators: Chris Schenkel, Bud Wilkinson & Bill Flemming.

[@DarkAudit]

Would you happen to have the 1975 Backyard Brawl? Pitt @ West Virginia.

[@tanhelmet]

The commercials were lengthy pushing tobacco sales. So NCAA had the goal post at the end of the end zone while they NFL had it at the front of the endzone until 1972 ?

[@wildforthecats661]

Cigarette commercials. Different world.

[@38Achilles]

I'm Jonesing for a smoke.

[@teller1290]

An invocation AND nat'l anthem!!!

[@teller1290]

...and no singer; the people were "the singer." I'd forgotten about that.

[@areguapiri]

College football teams at this time absolutely refused to pass the ball no matter what.

[@curtismcneil8695]

It was just the way they played back in the day. The rules didn't favor the passing game. As the game grew and the players got better and the offensive formations gradually changed the passing game became a more exciting brand of Football. Even into the 70's most teams continued to run the ball. The old school of thought as Bill Parcels once said theres three things that can happen to you when you throw the Football and two of them are bad. That was just the mentality back then, run the ball and control the clock. In this video Tennessee does seem to be able to throw it ok when they want to.

[@yeildo1492]

6:28 look at how well dressed they are. Richmond Flowers Sr, was the attorney general of Alabama (as Chris says) from 63-67 and not popular with his pro civil rights stance. When Flowers Jr, Tennessee's Wingback, applied for law school at Tenn he was rejected. Some guy named Bear Bryant wrote him a recommendation for Alabama's law school and he was accepted. 16:58 Syracuse REALLY unbalanced.

[@rodcrawford5547]

This is the year that Steve Spurrier won the Heisman Trophy! In one only, he threw for a forty yard TD, kicked a thirty yard field goal and punted for forty yards. One man did these sort of things back then. Those were the days. Now he's finally back at Florida, where he belongs. What a football career...🎉🎉🎉👀👀👀😎😎😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🏈🏈🏈

[@mikegillaspy1721]

Damn, with 2019 half these guys would be kicked out og game

[@dstreck9]

16:00 is it just me or did the person in charge of Tennessee’s laundry do a terrible job on Richmond Flowers’ pants?

[@tperk]

5:55 imagine so many people wearing their Sunday best to a football game. Suits and ties? What was this a Billy Graham Crusade?

[@WaltGekko]

People did that in those days, and was true of most sporting events then.

[@madbrowniac7871]

Shape of things to come perhaps? Syracuse had a guy named Bill Benecic, from Bristol, Connecticut of all places!B.W.

[@guardianangel138]

is this the whole complete game unedited

[@vwm8534]

I think so but to be honest it's been a long time since I watched it

[@Getreal2025]

How about the way the fans dressed back then...CLASS.

[@lwmson]

Interesting how the offense for each team is introduced but the defensive players weren't. I guess it goes to show how shallow or even ignorant many were about the sport back then, believing that star QBs and RBs are were the heart of a team, when if anything defense is the name of the game in football.

[@hughjass7297]

Do you have Harvard/Yale '68?

[@vwm8534]

I do not. Sorry

[@dannelson863]

Missed PAT's, a 45 yard FG that fell 10 yards short. LOL. What's up with that, some of the greatest NFL kickers of all time would have been in college at that time.

[@CowSaysMooMoo]

Who? We are just NOW seeing good kickers.....

[@timothyhockensmith8171]

Better field conditions these days..

[@vestibulate]

Nice to hear a prayer to "the Everlasting Father", with the men all dressed as assassins.

[@peakperformancetrain]

Tom Hall protection of the lives given in the world is unfortunately essential protection from evil is essential in the world of the fallen man.

[@richardsnyder842]

Some observations.....Did Ohio State recruit Larry Csonka of did they just overlook the Stow Ohio native? Men wearing a coat and tie to the game The Syracuse Marching band hasn't changed much.

[@redball7362]

Wow! Team introductions: 1 African-American starter! Floyd Little would go on to have a great AFL/ NFL career and eventually be selected to the NFL Hall of Fame.

[@ericcollins8794]

@Randall Denison oh well lol

[@dariowiter3078]

Can we say "1 black starter," you idiot?! 🙄😣😡

[@georgecole2401]

No black athletes for Tennessee?Oh,I forgot it's the South! Sorry,not.

[@stephenheath8465]

Syracuse was an Eastern Power back in those days

[@44032]

Love that unbalanced line. Why don't they use it anymore?

[@madbrowniac7871]

The entire Syracuse team appears to have been modeled after Larry Csonka!B.W.

[@jaysoper3974]

Dewey Warren was too small for the pro's, but "the swamp rat" was one of the best collegiate cubes of that era

[@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy]

He was a good QB....My uncle taught at UT at that time. He said Dewey was as crazy as a shithouse rat but a heck of a QB. Like you said: really too small for the pros. I always thought Richmond Flowers would make it big but never panned out. Bob Johnson went on to be a huge success.

[@ericcollins8794]

@@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy one of the 1st stars for Cincinnati bengals.number is retired

[@RRaquello]

@@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy I remember Richmond Flowers as a player with the NY Giants. He played defense in the pros.

[@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy]

@@RRaquello He was actually drafted by the Cowboys and did play for the Giants. Was the first player selected by the upstart WFL but never really played. I thought he would be great in the pros but never panned out for him.

[@RRaquello]

@@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy If I remember correctly, the Giants used him mostly as a kick returner and defensive back. I grew up in NY so got to see the Giants every week. They didn't have a very good team back then. I don't know if they ever tried him as a wide receiver, which you think might have been his natural position in the pros.

[@jerryferko8309]

amen , joe

[@frederickjohnpicarello1909]

Why did some of the college football players look like 30 year old men back then ?!!

[@percywood7471]

Floyd Little almost brought Syracuse back in the second half

[@thomassoue2332]

Wonder how much a ticket was.

[@abbadabbba232]

41:59 She's so cute.

[@jamesbell2682]

You have two of the best running backs of all time in the backfield and you try a fake kick?

[@zxccxz164]

ahhh the bowls BEFORE they put advertising into the name

[@bstnd3]

Floyd Little replaced Ernie Davis in the Syracuse backfield

[@1515gator1]

Dude lighting up a heater on the commercial!

[@davidwadsworth8982]

In the 1060's Syracuse would not schedule Army. Army had a lot of 8 and 2 teams as an independent, beat Penn State, Pitt, Rutgers, Kansas State, played a national schedule,but they did not go bowling,while Air Force and Navy did. That killed their recruiting.They beat Cal.But Syracuse would not play them.Boston College did and lost.Hate Syracuse.

[@Huuudge25]

Yet 16 days later , we can't see Super Bowl I in its entirety.

[@82dorrin]

Eh, life's a bitch.

[@hayshammond5499]

When football was football..

[@davidfisher462]

Little had 200 yds but turnovers and no play action passes against a 7 man front and being predictable lost this game.