1970 Washington at Stanford

This is The 11/7/1970 Washington at Stanford game. Stanford clinched The Pac 8 Title and Rose Bowl bid with a hard fought win. If Washington had won they would have been favored to win The Pac 8. Washington featured an excellent passing attack too led by Sophomore QB Sonny Sixkiller. As it was Jim Plunkett and The Indians prevailed. after this game Stanford had a letdown near the end of the year losing their last two games but of course righted themselves for The Rose Bowl appearence. I claim no rights.

[@chandlervatavuk9513]

YES THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS! I've been looking for a solid copy of this for years

[@celticprideisstillalive8766]

Sonny Sixkiller. Awesome.

[@brianarbenz1329]

I'd hate to go against him if my number were 6.

[@hssfan]

Love hearing The Mod Squad theme at the start of the broadcast! Great promotion for ABC!

[@Lfg117]

Also proof that, pre-internet era, there were cfb games out west w strong attendance.

[@dave0051]

Bahahaha Hell Washington players don't even have matching helmets.

[@jeffreypierce1440]

Pre-diversity. Whites go to games.

[@nala3038]

My nostalgia meter just blew up

[@bloqk16]

The aspect that was remarkable about ABC-TV televising the college games was that they *_did not black them out locally._* Whereas the NFL games of that era would be blacked- out when the local teams played at home . . . even for the playoffs and championship games. I was living near Menlo Park, California, less than five miles away from Stanford Stadium, and watched this Stanford/UW game on KGO-TV, San Francisco.

[@BrianONEILL-qf2cs]

That must have changed fairly soon before 1970. I've read that in 1967, ABC showed USC-UCLA to the Bay Area, while Los Angeles saw Stanford-Cal.

[@ReverendBrown.]

Having been born, raised and spent all my 58 years in Maryland, and spent many a summer in tobacco fields, I have never heard of Maryland cigarettes!!!!! That was awesome!!!

[@OaktownABQ]

Stanford Indians? Pacific-8 Conference? Man, does this bring back fond memories!

[@FlintyCobblestone]

If you could find the Penn State @ UCLA game from 1968, I would consider you a miracle worker!

[@PhilipTomlinson-e4y]

ME AS WELL!!!

[@paulsonj72]

The Witchita St plane crash happened in October and is the forgotten accident in sports history as the Marshall University plane crash happened one week after this game on November 14.

[@MrGG1959]

I remember the Wichita State plane crash. I was visiting family in Montreal at the time. I wonder why if they made a movie about the Marshall University crash nothing was ever done regarding the Wichita State tragedy.

[@meeenmeeestagigggles3246]

Thankyou Stanford and Plunkett for the 1970 national championship - Woody Hayes

[@brianarbenz1329]

Retrospectively, Stanford's backfield of Jackie Brown and Hillary Schockley could be called the "First Lady backfield."

[@Amber90125]

Love these college football games of the past.

[@rogerwilliams5366]

I didn’t know Jim Plunkett ran the option!

[@michaelmapes4119]

Usually back then the only time you would see that was in college games

[@davidx6912]

1:49:32 Ahhh, the antics of the ol' Stanford Band. Amazing this showed up on network TV, even in those daze! 😂

[@gregsells8549]

7:33 How fast was the AT&T data phone with a rotary dial for under $12 a month?

[@nathaniellathy6559]

Why were teams righting themselves against Ohio State in Rose Bowls in 70s and 80s? It happened in 71 and 85 Rose Bowls. Even 76 Rose UCLA didn't look good against USC before upsetting Ohio State.

[@bloqk16]

It could be that the Big 10 conference teams were primary run offense and weren't too familiar with defending the pass. Part of it could also be the favorable weather on the west coast in late Fall, which allows for more unhindered outdoor practice time for the Pac 8 teams. In another YT post for the Rose Bowl Game, one person wrote that University of Michigan's woeful record for the Rose Bowl, in the 1970s, was due to not having an indoor practice facility until the 1980s.

[@brianarbenz1329]

@@bloqk16 The Big 10 switching to artificial playing surfaces about 1970 made it difficult for them adapt to the playing surfaces of the Rose and Orange bowls. Before then, the Big 10 owned the Rose Bowl, with their schools winning every RB but two from '47 through '62, and national titles several of those years. Natural surfaces make football a whole different game.

[@michaelthompson729]

​@bloqk16 they're nationally broadcast games whether it be the Rose Bowl or Orange Bowl or Sugar Bowl with the local team be it UCLA F or USC or in the case of Alabama or Georgia playing in a Bowl game close to their university.....big advantage to those schools....

[@matt-d7m]

looking at the wide shots during into, it's hard to believe that stadium would host super bowl 24 yrs later

[@chalkywhitelll8448]

14 years later

[@matt-d7m]

@@chalkywhitelll8448 -yeah -sorry my bad

[@rogerwilliams5366]

Jim Plunkett threading the needle!

[@ricknibert6417]

This was the year All Right Now was released. When did it officially become the Stanford fight song?

[@Chatta-Ortega]

I think Schenkel had a thing for Mary Hernandez. Loved the halftime show!

[@3inDaHo]

What’s up with Washington’s helmets?

[@ricknibert6417]

Just mentioned around the 1:30:00 mark. Something about the

[@eternal1blue]

@@ricknibert64171:32:00 mark helmets with dark color for defense stars .

[@Playsinvain]

There are so many bizarre aspects to this broadcast, one does not know where to begin. Fourth quarter?

[@davidpepin5709]

What was up with the Washington helmets? Some are wearing black, and some gold.

[@michaelmapes4119]

Actually they were purple

[@nala3038]

Purple

[@michaelthompson729]

That's all they could afford ​@@nala3038

[@michaelthompson729]

Wasn't in the Washington football budget

[@michaelthompson729]

Looks cheap

[@traceywoodward1354]

Why are some of the Washington defensive players wearing gold helmets and some wearing dark helmets?

[@nathaniellathy6559]

Chris Shenkel looks young

[@Lfg117]

Wow

[@nordythenorthman]

9:18 Sadly, that is not the case today.

[@RobertPiche-ii9dt]

Another one nowhere to be found is the 1979 USC v ND game. Charles Whites biggest college day0:35

[@ShawnC.T.]

Never heard of "Sonny Sixkiller", before witnessing this upload, interesting...🙂

[@brianarbenz1329]

A native American quarterback playing against the Stanford "Indians," as they were still called at that time. I wonder if that was a motivation for Sonny Sixkiller, or if it helped speed up Stanford's decision in a few years to change its nickname to the Cardinal.

[@jln55]

​​@@brianarbenz1329Jim Plunkett's mom was Native American. I guess he wasn't bothered by it.

[@michaelmapes4119]

He was one of the UW all time great QB's from the 70's along with Warren Moon!

[@michaelmapes4119]

@@brianarbenz1329 Could have been. Jim Owens was kind of a racist. UW mostly made up with white players.

[@brianarbenz1329]

@@jln55 Ah, the plot thickens. Didn't know that. I knew both his parents were blind and they adopted him (though I'm not sure if they adopted him while they were blind, or they lost their sight later. Also not sure how visually impaired they were.

[@celticprideisstillalive8766]

I'm sure that conservatives loved the halftime show lol

[@TheScsilveira]

They sounded good back then! Amazed ABC showed this. Chris Schenkel sounded ill-at-ease throughout!

[@dave0051]

Wtf are you even talking about. Conservatives? Commiefornia and the rest of the gd left coast is nothing but a leftist shit hole utopia.

[@GVike]

Different colored helmets for Washington???

[@jeffreypierce1440]

Telling the damn diversity lie already in 1970...how disappointing.

[@stevolkman]

Stanford dropped the mascot in 1972.