1973 #6 USC @ #8 Notre Dame No Huddle

1973 USC Trojans @ Notre Dame Fighting Irish

[@bigchickenfu]

Irish had one hell of a running game in 1973.

[@jtg1124]

The Notre Dame crowd was amazing‘ this win was really important

[@drzlecuti]

I was a sophomore at ND and in the student section at the northwest corner of the stadium. When Penick made the 85-yard touchdown run, it looked like he was running right towards us.

[@otisgreer8429]

USC NOTRE DAME, OHIO ST and MICHIGAN, OKLAHOMA NEBRASKA, UCLA USC, OKLAHOMA TEXAS. The 70’s. Those were the days.

[@johnwaffleh2p70]

Otis Greer Pitt

[@allengreene9954]

@@johnwaffleh2p70 Penn State-Pitt.

[@edmondwynn174]

Pitt - Penn State 2 years played at Three Rivers Stadium ( The Confluence) 1975 and 1976 in 75 Penn State wins 7 -6 @ in 76 Pitt wins 24- 7 yo COMPLETE Undefeated Regular Season and Go to Sugar Bowl vs SEC Champs Georgia Bulldogs ( 10 - 1)

[@nathaniellathy6559]

75 Arizona State was a good team too

[@nadamasdisponible]

They still are

[@ripperduck]

I grew up in San Francisco, and my family hated SC. I was 8 years old when this game was played, and I saw my dad and uncle elated at the outcome of this game. Thanks for posting...

[@debbiehenson1096]

Casper, Luther Bradley, Pat Haden, Swann. Lots of future NFL stars in this game.

[@otisgreer8429]

This takes me back to my youth. When Saturday’s couldn’t get here fast enough.

[@greyfox37]

I was so thrilled that we had some football last year. Sadly, Cfb isn't the same it used to be (I grew up in the 80s and 90s) and started my fandom in 88 when Dad, a 74 alum, asked me if I wanted to watch the Michigan game. After watching Ricky Watters return a punt, I was excited for every Saturday after.

[@williampremo9807]

There weren't 10 games on at the same like now. This was THE game. Everybody was watching.

[@jasonh5547]

Thank goodness for Mighty Alabama who just had the greatest and most dominant dynasty ever in the entire history of college football.

[@Jiltedin2007]

R.I.P.: Ara Parseghian and John McKay

[@UncleClaudeSportsandThangs]

I think that Swann kid has a chance to be pretty good.

[@headley62]

I have a Notre Dame pocket watch my grandfather found in the mud outside the stadium after a game in the 1920's. My grandfather was a Notre Dame graduate. The watch is in excellent condition. If anyone out there is interested in purchasing it, please let me know.

[@bobkeenan2907]

How much would you want for the watch?

[@gline7758]

Me thinks John Doe was B-sh-T-ing.

[@bubblerap7176]

What gets me is just the pared down look of the broadcast. The listing of the line in basic graphics with the skills players in pics that looked like they were taken by amateurs. No constant display of the score and other rolling graphics. So basic. So raw.

[@jtg1124]

Absolutely amazing video

[@ciesaro]

Trojan fans (like me) saw Eric Penick in our nightmares

[@timothymiller1783]

Not an ND fan, but I was at this game when I was young. I had good connections, so I was seated on the field bleachers on the North end zone in front of the student section. When Penick scored on that long run, he ran right toward me.

[@nadamasdisponible]

WTF how can you have been at this game and not be an ND fan?

[@timothymiller1783]

@@nadamasdisponible I was in those days, I'm from South Bend, but I'm no longer one.

[@williambracale3577]

@timothymiller1783 - I was about 50 rows behind you!

[@timothymiller1783]

@@williambracale3577 My cousin David Zehnpfenig graduated from Gilmour in 1973.

[@josephgeorge7385]

Thanks for posting

[@nathaniellathy6559]

Chris Schenkel called just about every sport 😳including Bowling

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

And he never yelled even one time, ever. These "Announcers" today are always yelling on nearly every play, like it was a Hail Mary to win the Super Bowl or something!

[@allend2749]

such a clear and beautiful picture

[@ericgoldfarb4870]

No gain on the play but a lesson for us all.

[@williambracale3577]

Fun facts - At Gilmour Academy (suburban Cleveland, OH), Eric Penick torched opponents on the ground. His lead blocker was a bruising fullback named Dave Janasek. Two weeks after the '73 USC game, the still-unbeaten Irish faced off against Pitt on the road, coming away with a 31 - 10 victory. It wasn't as easy as the score might imply. A freshman Panther running back named Tony Dorsett lit up the ND defense. However, in spite of 209 rushing yards, TD never crossed the goal line that day. In fact, the Panther's lone touchdown came on a one yard plunge by a bruising fullback named Dave Janasek!

[@timothymiller1783]

My cousin David Zehnpfenig graduated from Gilmour in 1973.

[@williambracale3577]

@@timothymiller1783 One of my younger brothers went to Gilmour in the late 70s, but the rest of us went to the public high school. Penick was a multi-sport beast in high school. Gilmour captured the 1971 Ohio HS Div AA (medium size schools) State Track Championship. Penick won the 100, 220 and 440 yard dashes, racking up 30 team points for Gilmour. The next best TEAM score was 28 points! It's a pity his football career was cut short by a severe ankle injury his senior year at ND.

[@headley62]

Osborne Engineering of Cleveland, Ohio built Notre Dame Stadium in the 1930's.

[@ronflatter1235]

20:41 Eric Penick’s 85-yard TD run.

[@tommythomason6187]

Hard-nosed football between two top teams, both loaded with unreal athletes, many, who'd turn pro.

[@danieldougherty3334]

National Champs...I went to the Army game at West Point and the Pitt game at ND that year.

[@williambracale3577]

FYI - The '73 ND - Pitt game was played Nov 10, 1973, at Pitt Stadium . . .

[@nathaniellathy6559]

Notre Dame lead USC 24-0 next year and lost 55-24.No wonder Ara Parseghian grew weary of game day pressure

[@christopherjones8517]

Didn’t know Manson and Jerry Garcia were the USC band!

[@lincolnmaceachern2410]

Clements came to Canada and had a great career in the CFL, first in a great 2 QB system , with Condredge Holloway ( of Tennessee, I think ). Anthony Davis came to the CFL too, but with little success.

[@shanehowell8169]

Anthony Davis played in WFL, CFL, USFL, and NFL.

[@joshblocker9653]

Wow Notre Dame actually looked like an sec team that year

[@terrybangley2281]

thats because this was before that stupid "no contact" after 5 yards penalty came into effect, a lot harder to pass back in those days, college follows the NFL rules, except for a few minor variations, and the nfl sold out in 1978 to get more people watching by making the game more "exciting" by giving the offense a big advantage in the rules

[@josephmoya5098]

@@terrybangley2281 Everyone talks about parity in college football today. I am convinced that removing that one rule will immediately start to have said effect.

[@007ndc]

I liked Chris Schenkel growing up but it sure sounds like he had money on USC lol. Go Irish

[@JLShaia]

I was there !!!!

[@williamlawlor5969]

tommy clements should have been a coach at ND came up huge with Art Best and the D

[@ronflatter1235]

15:25 An apparent dig at the ability to grow grass in South Bend.

[@royboy9361]

College football will never be like this again.

[@ronflatter1235]

22:35 Lynn Swann had one foot in (maybe) and maintained possession (maybe). The replay right after says he got the one foot in. But possession? Call stands in 2023, right?

[@christopherslovick9373]

Is that head referee Jerry Markbrite?

[@debbiehenson1096]

Rudy?

[@nathaniellathy6559]

USC lost 42-21 to Ohio State in Rose Bowl this sesson.They won Natty next season

[@NkrumahTure]

A. D.

[@yeildo1492]

5:43 Is it bad that I know that ref's name is Jerry Markbreit? Signs of a misspent youth.... 6:53 Pretty remarkable play by Lynn Swann.

[@BAYAREA-kd1ig]

Jerry Markbreit the ref who always looked like he was smiling when announcing a penalty. And no it's not bad at all.

[@chuckcollins2349]

Ohio State Buckeyes were the best team in 1973.

[@ronflatter1235]

8:21 Future NFL referee Jerry Markbreit.

[@sliderulelover]

Way to go, IRISH

[@7USC7]

WHAT HAPPENED IN 1974?? ;)

[@gline7758]

USC cheated in ‘74 with 6 ineligible players.

[@nathaniellathy6559]

Too bad Ohio State and Michigan couldn't be consensus National Champions in 1973.Instead it was Alabama based on regular season and Notre Dame after the Bowl games.Would have been a good 4 team playoff.

[@chuckcollins2349]

Buckeyes were the best team that year.

[@nathaniellathy6559]

@@chuckcollins2349 too bad they played close to the vest in 2nd half against Michigan.Any points at all and they would have won Natty.Great team on both sides of ball

[@bobdelaney3126]

Hated USC

[@ronflatter1235]

0:28 “Their cheerleaders, rather shapely.” These comments get creepier by the decade.

[@richardsenkBeachwalker]

only if you are a woke moron who has a problem with men being attracted to women. Guess you were hatched not born

[@enriqueham4947]

Real Student Athletes (at least in Notre Dame) no transfer Bull Shait-Trully Catholic Lads !!!!