Guess who I met at O'hare

[baoklhorn]

Meeting Billy Dale was THE highlight of the trip, even better than the sports stuff on HC's restaurant wall. He said he would call me for lunch when he comes to town on bidness.

I CAN'T WAIT!

 

[WorsterMan]

Great story baoklaHORN, I am jealous dude, wish I had been there to enjoy that moment.

Re: Dale making the carry on the TD vs. ND... I was there and I will never forget the play as it was the culmination of a long and very tedious late game drive for the winning TD and the MNC. It was a cross-buck play out of the Wishbone and I believe Dale went untouched into the EZ thanks to key blocks by a guy name Worster, Bobby Wuensch and I think Peschell. Before the play, I didn't notice Dale had come into the lineup - I wondered later if this was a Royal strategy / a move to throw off the Irish that he surely would not give the ball to a backup that had just come into the game... yet he did and it was a winning call

 

[cochamps]

Bullzak - Thanks for the link. That was a nice read on Billy.

GFBF - I think I know the origins of your handle.

 

[hullabelew]

Great link above. Also, as always, I enjoy Worsterman's posts on stuff in this time frame. Names like Worster, Bertelsen, Street, Speyer, & Aboussie all remind me of the excitement I had for the Longhorns as a 9 year old boy.

 

[hornrush]

Great link above. Also, as always, I enjoy Worsterman's posts on stuff in this time frame. Names like Worster, Bertelsen, Street, Speyer, & Aboussie all remind me of the excitement I had for the Longhorns as a 9 year old boy.

Me too! Great story and thanks for the link.

Hook'em!

 

[baoklhorn]

Thank-you WorSteerMan for your summary of the game. Yes I am jealous you were there in person watching Billy Dale "crossbuck" his way into the endzone for the winning Horn TD over ND. I was 15 and watching on black and white TV.

Can someone define "crossbuck" for us as I have an idea what that was, but maybe someone can clarify.

 

[WorsterMan]

Today many do not understand the magnitude of the UT victory over ND in that 1970 CB game. ND was the utopia or zenith to many in college football, the sports media and college football fans coming out of the 60's. Many "sports experts" thought there was no way UT and their tricked up Wishbone could beat Ara Parsehgians large and talented Irish.

I was a mere lad of 16 at that MNC game on Jan. 1, 1970 with my UT grad Dad. Those UT players were like VY today... bigger than life. It is easy to remember their names...and what a team.... Dale, Worster, Street, Koy, Bertelsen, McKay, Halsell, Henderson, Spreyer, Peschell, Wuensch, Zapalac, Atessis, Wiegand, 205 lbs. OG Mike Dean (who mostly held his own against 280 lbs. goliath ND tackle Mike McCoy), Ploetz, Stout, Campbell, Happy Feller and the late Danny Lester and Fred Steinmark.

As for the Crossbuck play, it was basically a simple misdirection play out of the Wishbone. When the other team keyed on a player or you wanted to create some misdirection, you get the D to think you are going one direction - fake it - and give the ball to a back going the opposite direction, as the Horns did vs. ND... UT executed it so well on that play that Dale went in untouched for the winning TD.

Steve Worster was voted the CB Offensive MVP with 20 carries for 155 yards of tough rushing against one of the biggest DL's in the country. One of my favorite Worster plays came from this game, where he is hit 7 or 8 times and drags a pile of ND players approx. 8-10 yards - I have it on a game highlights DVD a friend recorded for me.

The post-game celebration was as real / vivid, loud and as vital to UT football history as the 2006 RB victory over USC was.

Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end.........

 

[Bookman]

"Do you remember the time you scored that touchdown and Texas won the national championship?"

"Yes"

"That was awesome."

 

[pulque]

Don't ever ask Aboussie about the fumble at Miami! LOL Billy was/is a gem, while I was picking pine splinters out of my ***.

 

[Sip94]

That's so weird. Once I was at Ohare a few years ago and guess who walks by...... you guessed it, Mike Piazza.

 

[WorsterMan]

Pulque - tell us what you know re: that story surrounding the Joey Aboussie fumble vs. Miami in '72 or was it '73?

 

[pulque]

Joey was long gone down the sidelines for a TD and the ball just flew out of his hands. That was after me, I saw it on TV, but I just couldn't believe it, and I'm sure he couldn't either. Oh, it was painful!

 

[WorsterMan]

Poor Joey, that is ugly. I was in college then and likely watched the game, but I just have no memory of the play or his fumble.... too many yrs of UT football or I may have missed the game for some reason.