To Tell the Truth - Doak Walker, football great; Female chess champ (Mar 31, 1960)

PANEL: Polly Bergen, Don Ameche, Kitty Carlisle, Tom Poston
CONTESTANT #1: Doak Walker (All-time football great)
CONTESTANT #2: Lisa Lane (U.S. women's chess champion)
CONTESTANT #3: George Hill (Contester)
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[@MrEdwardCollins]

I just finished watching Lisa Lane appear on a 1961 episode of "What's My Line?" In that segment, the four-person panel were not able to figure out her line. (That segment is also available via KZbin.) As a fellow chess player, I've read of Lisa Lane. This clip and the "What's My Line?" clip are the video clips I've ever seen of her. Very happy to find them. Like Bobby Fischer, Lane never knew her father. Unlike Fischer, Lane didn't begin playing chess until her late teens. Lane won U.S. Women's Chess Championship in 1959 at the age of 21. This was just two years after she began playing the game. When she defended it for the first time, three years later in 1962, she lost to Gisela Kahn Gresser. (For 25 years, Gresser dominated women's chess in the United States. She won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship nine times from 1944 to 1969. Gresser was also the first woman to be inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame, which happened in 1992.) As of August, 2023, Lane is still alive. She is currently 85 years old.

[@walkingtrails7776]

Doak died in skiing accident in 1998...he was 71 years old.What a great football player. Good looking dude in his prime.

[@t4texastomjohnnycat978]

This was obviously before ESPN, and the OVER-coverage that NFL players of today get. If Doak Walker had played in today's NFL, he would be the most celebrated AND most recognizable face on TV. What a player he was, and what a career the handsome Doak had. I'm still very surprised that he didn't wind up in Hollywood. God bless our NFL heroes from a bygone era. R.I.P. Doak Walker🏈 THANKS FOR POSTING THIS VIDEO.

[@stephenkennedy8767]

Mark Richardson Don Drysdale not recognized and he wore Dodger uniform too

[@ItsMeMissV369]

It really is a sign of the times, some of these episodes will have a miss universe and I think the same thing, we would know who she was immediately just like this fellow. Amazing advancement in 50 years.

[@davidfritz1331]

Just think... if Walker had been born in Tulsa rather than in Dallas, he would've been Okie Doakie!

[@ThriftSchool]

My Grandpa is the man in the middle. Still Alive and Kickin. Awesome to be able to watch this. He was around 30 years old at this time of this recording and had just moved to NYC.

[@rmelin13231]

Which group of challengers?

[@poetcomic1]

Tom Poston always asks questions that all three of them can't answer which helps exactly no one! I am a fan of Poston and everybody who remembers the show just loved him though. He as well as the charming Don Ameche were cheerful, delightful men.

[@reno1uest]

I like Don Ameche as an actor, and when he tells us his vote and reasons, he's good but I hate the way he asks questions.

[@stjudeprayer7]

@@reno1uest Exactly---- he has truly charming ways EXCEPT at asking questions...

[@sbalman]

@@reno1uest Me too!

[@davemitchell116]

Wow have times changed! No one recognized the great Doak Walker! Can you imagine not recognizing a Heisman winner like Cam Newton or Tim Tebow today?

[@peternagy-im4be]

I wouldn't. Never heard of them.

[@davemitchell116]

@@peternagy-im4be If you lived in the 1950s and followed college football you would have. Possibly the greatest player to come out of the Dallas area. All-American and Heisman Trophy winner.

[@peternagy-im4be]

@@davemitchell116 I meant the other two you mentioned

[@9094nancyj]

That's what I thought!

[@catherinecarella2928]

Football wasn't big business then as it is today. Money wasn't paramount. I may be wrong, but, it was about how you played the game. Values were different.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

Man #1 in Game #1 Lady #2 in Game #2 Man #2 in Game #3

[@kenyongray2615]

Lisa, the chess champion was a babe. Doak Walker who played for SMU for a great player. Bud is a professional bringing in the show on time, all the time.

[@sbalman]

As much as I like Don Ameche's smile and some of the roles he played, he often seems a bit hostile and bad-tempered when asking questions.

[@jonvater8424]

Doak Walker was one good-looking man.

[@brucemarsico6]

He died a terrible death. A skiing accident that left him paralyzed.

[@momcatwoo]

@@brucemarsico6 oh no!

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

two out of three today. I missed Doak. I pegged #2 in game 3 from the moment he walked out.

[@keithnaylor1981]

Most unusual show - two contestants getting all four votes. Don't think I've seen that before. Nothing unusual though about Polly Bergen, just stunningly beautiful as ever! I reckon the cave man was was really Batman, he just didn't want his cover blown on air! KAN

[@stjudeprayer7]

😉😉

[@ace942]

I saw Lisa Lane on another game show so I knew who she was but the questions could have better.

[@44032]

Wikipedia says this was broadcast May 21, 1961. Who is telling the truth?

[@audw2534]

I would have been 3 years old to the day.

[@goback3spaces]

Questions for lady chess players were weak across the board. But man #3 is an Amazon!

[@gabe-po9yi]

I don’t understand why Doak Walker didn’t get any of the football questions right: belly series, T formation, single wing.formation, and even the definition of red-dogging. You could tell Don Ameche was perturbed by no one knowing the answers. His questions were excellent and correct answers to even one or two of them would’ve revealed which man was Doak.

[@ItsMeMissV369]

I’ve never heard of it so I thought all three right right especially when Doak said it so I thought Ameche was being a jerk. Oops lol

[@gemoftheocean]

Doak wasn't asked about Red dogging. #3 was

[@Rodin99]

cave manager is a good idea for a contestant on this show. I'm surprised they didn't get number one game.

[@tomitstube]

used to live in missouri, there are many caves that businesses operate in, almost like a mall underground, the air is pretty bad tho, all those trucks coming in and out, nowhere for the fumes to go... back in the day a lot of them were "speakeasies" during prohibition.

[@lestermount3287]

surprised the men didn't know what Walker looked like

[@LindaKLee]

Me too

[@ArmenianBishop]

I play online chess everyday, but the giveaway answers came from Number 2's knowledge about the Philadelphia landscape & roadways.

[@elliebellie7816]

Three men and none of them know what a "huddle" is? Never!

[@ItsMeMissV369]

Is it just me or does the panel just seem like pissed off people in this one?

[@sbalman]

Don Ameche always seems like that as well as Polly. Sometimes, Tom Poston can be like that too.

[@joeambrose3260]

Ameche thinks he's Clarence Darrow. Unstomachable

[@joeambrose3260]

Polly is cute but nauseating With respect

[@44032]

#2: Where is your Texas accent?"

[@JonesNate]

Two permanent what?

[@mymx5az]

And a case of lung cancer.

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

#2 football neck.

[@ThriftSchool]

Thats my grandpa. He played College Ball. I cant remember his position, but he is still alive and still living in New York. Ill give him a call and ask.

[@timothywills7709]

Boo. The cigarettes are back!

[@geraldkatz7986]

Boo. The whining about it is back.

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

chess #1 married a female 😂

[@boring247boring5]

no wars in les united states the united states needs to welcome in des women est children by les millions

[@michaelcanney7218]

Last time Detroit had a team