1972 Sugar Bowl Oklahoma vs Auburn 1 1 1972 1971 Season

I think I already have this game on here, but the quality was bad. I have better software now, so hope this one looks better.

[@tonybunting1828]

Just a little head-scratching how a guy (Greg Pruitt) can rush for 1665 yards, average 9.4 yards per carry, and not win the Heisman Trophy.

[@jdp0359]

Even though im from Nebraska i like watching these great Oklahoma teams and that vaunted wishbone. Oklahoma outclaased everybody except Nebraska in 71.

[@jgringo5516]

Born in 1971. Probably watched this with my Dad with diapers on holding a Scooby Doo bottle! I love watching these old games. Commentators were ultra professional types. I remember Chris Shinkle & Bill Fleming calling games years later. Greg Pruitt was a bad dude.

[@user-bs3qz3eo2j]

I was 15 when this game was played. I’m now 67 and watching it reminds me how great the offensive backfield was and how fast the o linemen were off the ball

[@bradtaylor4765]

The Big 8 was unbelievable that year finishing 1, 2 and 3.

[@JENDALL714]

Professional Broadcasters and no distracting graphics all over the place. Just a camera pointed at the game with some brief graphics, the way it should be!

[@Tsip89]

Yep; back when the camera was an observer, instead of a direct participant.

[@depaola63]

a truly classic era !! I am now 56 and these were such easier times !!

[@vwm8534]

I have felt that too many times. Then I start thinking well I was a kid back then.

[@depaola63]

It was the BEST of times to be a kid in my view, "Go outside and play ! "

[@Bruce12867]

Fifteen days later, Super Bowl VI would be played in this stadium.

[@bigtexmacgonigle444]

SB VI...Dallas finally got their ring; beating Miami 24-3. Al Hirt played the Anthem, I believe. He got hit in the face with a rock earlier.

[@toddprintz7660]

@@bigtexmacgonigle444 I was down after super bowl 6. My Dolphins went on to go 17 and 0 the next year.

[@jasonleman1396]

thanks for this! I was born in 1972!

[@stealthbomber2126]

During the Wishbone Era at OU, most of their occasional losses was always due to fumbles. But this O line technique wise was one of the greatest lines ever in college football. Only Nebraska's 1995 team averaged more points per game than the Sooners 71 team too.

[@DNSKansas]

27:10 Ella Fitzgerald was also part of the Super Bowl VI halftime show, a salute to Louis Armstrong, who died 6 July 1971.

[@joeschizoid7762]

I remember watching this live. I was 10 years old, already a big OU fan and this was the first time I had even heard of Auburn. I remember asking my Dad where Auburn was and he told me it was "somewhere in the South." I do remember Pat Sullivan and, for some reason, Terry Beasley.

[@jbratt]

I was 8. I remember watching it too. I remember thinking, wow that Heisman Trophy winner is have a rough day.

[@bishlap]

13 years old when this aired and I was already hooked on CFB, especially the OU Wishbone. Jack Mildren was one of my faves. Hated Nebraska and Tagge.

[@tigerwareagle1485]

RIP Pat Sullivan

[@LogoAttitude]

This will be a conference game starting in 2024

[@rds990]

I was a senior in HS when this game was played. I'm retiring this year !! Ha

[@RELopez-mk4ic]

Auburn's defensive line averaged 216 lbs!

[@toddprintz7660]

A 58% completion record. A big deal then. Now it's in the 70's. So different back then.

[@nealbacon7798]

Offensive Linemen could not use their hands to pass block, so you did not see DL getting mugged. It was OL taking all the abuse with head slaps and hands pushing the OL's facemask back and up. We were taught on defense where the head goes the body follows.

[@williamdiemert9866]

Pat Sullivan R.I.P

[@jdp0359]

And Jack Mildren too.

[@williamdunphy352]

Commentators: Chris Schenkel, Bud Wilkinson & Bill Flemming.

[@ryancampbell9231]

Virgil, Is there any way you can find the 1971 Iron Bowl and post it? Only Iron Bowl where both teams were undefeated and untied. Bama was #3 and AU was #5. It was on ABC and Bama won 31-7

[@merccadoosis8847]

53:00 - average weight of the defense = today many high schools have players who are far bigger

[@RCJ1968]

Wow! Earl Campbell fumbled twice in this game. Who knew what was in store after his freshman year.

[@DocSportello1970]

@1:09:19 we see that the Punt Return had a Fake Reverse set up...or Wylie elected to keep it due to the danger of a hand off. Nice game by Mildred in The Boys!!!

[@CJinsoo]

Interesting to see how far off the line of scrimmage the Auburn DL plays. They look about 1/2 yard behind line. I remember the Cowboys had the Flex Defense where at least one of the DL players would play back off the line, but I think that was more effective due to Randy White? How can you stop the run when you are playing 1/2 yard off the line? And you don’t make up for it by blitzing?

[@nealbacon7798]

The Cowboys were really good running the Flex way before Randy White. He just made it better. They were the Doomsday Defense from the late 60's on.

[@mrlafayette1964]

Where'd ya get that jacket!... the network gave it to me.

[@rds990]

33:27 ....."he's only been trapped 6 times..." Not "sacked"....trapped !! The Sack had not yet been defined. And WOW....not 1 black guy introduced for Auburn !!!!

[@313curt]

Later that evening, Nebraska trounced Alabama in the Orange Bowl, and the Tide didn't feature blacks on their team either. Alabama also a wishbone team, but they didn't have the athletes stocked up like the sooners did. I like seeing these old games-- the game was so much simpler and different, but the rules that favored the offenses blocking downfield didn't start until about 5 years later. Then it opened up the game a lot more. So long ago... and so great to see.

[@CJinsoo]

Looks like OU DL does same thing playing off the line, so maybe that was the “thing” back then?

[@DNSKansas]

The Flex defense was all the rage in the early 70s.

[@nealbacon7798]

@@DNSKansas They are not playing the Flex. The Flex had designated players up tight and designated players off the line. It was designed to be a gap control stop the run defense.

[@ed0985587]

BOOMER!!

[@ezsmith3765]

Every player on OU is wearing PUMA’s You don’t see that anymore.

[@michaelfalsia6062]

Whata ya know a daytime sugarbowl game.

[@garywest8705]

That was the last time that the Sugar Bowl was a day game for a long time. It started being played at night that same year on New Years Eve. That night Sooners took on Joe Paterno and his Penn State Nittany Lions with the Sooners prevailing 14-0. That was the last bowl game for Oklahoma for two years because the program was on two years probation for being complicit in qb Kerry Jackson's high school transcript being altered.

[@soonerlegendspodcast]

Dick Schmalz lmao 🤣

[@Tsip89]

German-speaker here. HAHA!

[@CJinsoo]

Kickoff FINALLy at 39:23. Wow, were these pre-games incredibly long, repetitive, boring....

[@luisvaldes1568]

I hated pregame shows still do.

[@jabbers081769]

Virgil Moody, any chance I can talk to you one on one man to man? do you have Facebook, i am on there if you want to add as well

[@vwm8534]

[e-mail]

[@DNSKansas]

25:51 Archbishop of New Orleans Phillip Hannan delivering the invocation. I'm guessing both teams' fans were not too happy a Catholic minister was leading the prayer, especially an Archbishop. But in New Orleans, the Protestants are far outnumbered by the Catholics, and there is also a sizable Jewish population. Hannan delivered a eulogy at JFK's funeral mass, the only part of the mass spoken in English. He died at 99, 22 years after he was asked to resign (due to age, not anything else) as Archbishop by John Paul II.

[@antoniodelrio1292]

Sounds like a stretch suggesting both teams fans not being happy with the Archbishop leading the prayer. Plenty of Catholics in Alabama, the first Madri Gras being held there.

[@CJinsoo]

Sullivan sure had a stinker of a game. It’s hard to go back to this era and compare to today, still he looks like he has a mediocre arm and poor foot work. I know he did nothing in the NFL, had some limited success as a college head coach, and seemed to do well as an assistant coach. Always seemed like a stand up guy.

[@CJinsoo]

Most Oklahoma starters are from Texas, as usual, including Pruitt and Mildred.

[@TheSaturnV]

I counted 5 offensive starters from Oklahoma, 4 from Texas.

[@CJinsoo]

TheSaturnV Okay, a majority, and the 2 biggest impact/star players. According to SoonerStats, 6 of top 10 all time Sooner rushers from Texas, 2 from OK. OU has and continues to do an outstanding job recruiting great players from TX.

[@joeschizoid7762]

And not a single player from South Florida....

[@garywest8705]

Glenn King of Jacksboro, Texas who was injured that game was the first black ever to be a captain for the Sooners.

[@lukestuningshop8467]

Need an editor? Cause someone SUCKS!

[@vwm8534]

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