Spent many a winter Saturday with Chris Schenkel and Nelson Burton, Jr. on my TV. But you are right. He was also heavily involved with ABC's Olympic coverage, as well.
I am in my office still - after a very long day -- 7 hearings this morning -- I'm exhausted and its nice to have this game on in the background - Hook 'Em!! Way to Go Freddie!!
Thank you for posting. Have never seen this game before. Makes you realize how Street was a legit passing QB not like so many other wishbone/option QBs who were mostly running back-ball distributors. Also thanks for leaving the ads in, I spent my career in ad agencies so it is wonderful to see the old ads.
A big part of this game was Street using his cadence to slow the Oklahoma defensive penetration. Even when they weren't offside, they were often late off the ball allowing Texas to have the few good runs they managed in this game. A lot of fun watching these old games again. Thanks for posting.
Fun fact - there were only two players not from Texas in the starting lineup announced at the beginning of this game - We grow them good here in Texas!!! Hook 'Em!
Two things that stood out to me were how predominately white the lineups were and the goalposts being in the back of the end zone. In 1969 the NFL still had them in the front.
Excellent copy of this game with great picture, Oct 11, 1969. This was a disappointing season for the Sooners as they went 6-4 and did not appear in a bowl game. There were probably a lot of Oklahomans at these games in the Cotton Bowl as by 1969 most of I-35 was completed (except from Davis to the TX line) and was a little more than a 3 hour drive down there (70 mph speed limit until 1974)
Roy Bell, #35 OU was a good player. I've never heard his name before. I did not know that OU had black players at this time. Turns out Prentice Gautt was the first, in 1956. I've never seen this game before. Thanks for posting. Very interesting that commercial breaks last one commercial. There is a move toward shortening the length of college games. Nobody has dared mention less commericals....
@@vwm8534 I thought SMU was first in the SWC with Jerry Levias. OU was certainly ahead of Texas and Arkansas. Neither team dressed a black player when they played that epic game.
Most of the commercials were 60 seconds. There were a few 30-second spots making for 2 commercials per break (as at 1:09:54, Ed Reimers for Allstate followed by Casey Kasem for GM). Now there are lots of 15 and 10-second spots, trying to cram in more advertisers.
@@vwm8534 No, that’s not the case. They were certainly ahead of the SWC, but most of the Big 8 teams integrated before Oklahoma. Kansas State integrated at the end of the 1940s. Some Pac-10 teams had black players from the end of the 1930s onward. Michigan had black players from 1932 onward. Loads of northern schools had black players long before Oklahoma.
All those ABC sports commentators were very versatile as they could announce just about every sport. Schenkel was mostly known for the Pro Bowlers Tour with Billy Welu and later Bo Burton. Schenkel was also the lead NBA announcer when ABC broadcast games in the 1960s and early 70s.
This was for many years the last time this game would be played on grass. The Cotton Bowl would go to AstroTurf for the 1970 season, the final full season for the Cowboys there (they would play two games there before moving to Texas Stadium midway through the 1971 season).
Great Game ......... The WishBone Was So Cool To Watch ............ Jim Bertelson ...Wisconsin Boy ........ And Think I heard A DB For Oklahoma .....From Brooklyn NY......... Last Name LaCosta , I think......... Very Cool ......
I would love to find the 68 OU game where Freddie Steinark was better. I'd also like to find the 1970 Cotton Bowl. It was televised, so there should be a copy out there somewhere. Oh, and thanks for posting this one.
That $17.95 was for a snow tire with studs, and the ad likely didn't air in the three Sunbelt states where studded tires were illegal, or other Sunbelt states for that matter. The South probably got a different Goodyear ad, and likewise the Sunoco ad would have been replaced outside their Eastern territory by other oil companies like Conoco or Union 76. And Esso would have been Enco in the West, the reason the company would change to Exxon.
@@vwm8534, he was OKIE Lt. governor from 1991-94, lost his re-election as a democrat during the 1994 GOP wave both in governorships and federally, under democrat Bill Clinton, and GOP Newt Gingrich as House Speaker. Mildren died in 2008 or '09 at 58.. Originally from Cooper High in Abilene, Tx.. Played dbacks for Colts and Pats, the latter under Fairbanks his college coach, in the pros..
Why do they continually refer to "Cotton" Speyrer by his given name Charles when at the beginning of the game they acknowledge he goes by "Cotton"? Sorry - just a bit of minutia ...........
In the Legendary Super Bowl Three in Miami's Orange Bowl in 1969 Longhorn George Sauer and Sooner Eddie Hinton played on opposing sides then too. Sauer for The New York Jets and Hinton for The Baltimore Colts.🤔😉🎤✈🐴🏈🍊B.W.
Ok - so, if the Sooners are named after the people who were sneaking into the new territory before anyone was allowed to go in - does that mean Oklahoma Sooners are named after cheaters??? Asking for a friend.... LOL and before anyone gets all uptight and in a tizzy - just kidding - ok?
@@vwm8534 I do too that is a legendary classic game. Unfortunately I was five years old when it was played. Would love to see it now as a grown man, but oh well thanks anyway.
@@robertsprouse9282 The fumbled punt at the end that broke OU's back is etched in every OU fan's memory who remembers that game. OU had a chance until that happened. Texas was in OU's head back then. Just like OU is in Texas' head these days.
NFL was not as big then (even if the Cowboys got to the NFL Championship game twice, losing both to the Packers). Cowboys would not become "America's Team" until after they moved to Texas Stadium during the 1971 season.
@@michaelleroy9281 Ah yes. My point was it didn't happen until after they moved to Texas Stadium when it had been implied it was done while they were still in the Cotton Bowl by some.
@@WaltGekko Back then the Cowboys' nickname was "Next Year's Champions," as they always choked when it counted (back-to-back losses to the Packers, the "Blunder Bowl" against the Colts).
A 1970 Chevy Longhorn commercial in 1969 costarring the guy who goes on to Manage "The Partridge Family"? During The annual classic between The Oklahoma Sooners and The Texas Longhorns no less? There indeed is brand identity!😂🎤🎼🎸🎹🥁📺🚘⛟🐥🐂🐶🏈B.W.
Also pitched the Suburban and Blazer (with an open top). I don't remember the Longhorn, a pickup built to carry campers. Who'd have thought that trucks would eventually overtake cars in sales?
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Chris Schenkel is criminally overlooked as one of the greatest announcers ever.
Will never forget him. He is synonymous with ABC sports.
Spent many a winter Saturday with Chris Schenkel and Nelson Burton, Jr. on my TV. But you are right. He was also heavily involved with ABC's Olympic coverage, as well.
I grew up watching Pro Bowlers Tour with my father and his voice is still the one I think of when it comes to bowling after all these years.
He was great, Chris schenkel, so was Bill Fleming
@@muffs55mercury61 As much as Keith Jackson, Jim McKay and Howard Cosell. And behind the scenes, Roone Arledge.
Thank you. I think I get more entertainment out of these games (and commercials) than today's games. Fun seeing the evolution of the game, as well.
I am in my office still - after a very long day -- 7 hearings this morning -- I'm exhausted and its nice to have this game on in the background - Hook 'Em!! Way to Go Freddie!!
Wanted to watch 1969 games - thinking about Freddie a lot these days!!! Amazing player - amazing man!!!
Thank you for posting. Have never seen this game before. Makes you realize how Street was a legit passing QB not like so many other wishbone/option QBs who were mostly running back-ball distributors. Also thanks for leaving the ads in, I spent my career in ad agencies so it is wonderful to see the old ads.
Texas was the first team to use the wishbone and the last all white team to win the National championship.
And James Street is better known now for being the father of Huston Street, a longtime MLB relief pitcher.
A big part of this game was Street using his cadence to slow the Oklahoma defensive penetration. Even when they weren't offside, they were often late off the ball allowing Texas to have the few good runs they managed in this game. A lot of fun watching these old games again. Thanks for posting.
Fun fact - there were only two players not from Texas in the starting lineup announced at the beginning of this game - We grow them good here in Texas!!! Hook 'Em!
Two things that stood out to me were how predominately white the lineups were and the goalposts being in the back of the end zone. In 1969 the NFL still had them in the front.
Fun watching the old commercials
That 100 season logo was all over college football in 1969
Excellent copy of this game with great picture, Oct 11, 1969. This was a disappointing season for the Sooners as they went 6-4 and did not appear in a bowl game.
There were probably a lot of Oklahomans at these games in the Cotton Bowl as by 1969 most of I-35 was completed (except from Davis to the TX line) and was a little more than a 3 hour drive down there (70 mph speed limit until 1974)
They almost went undefeated in 1971 with some of the same players ( lost the Game of the Century 35-31 to Nebraska)
The commercials are interesting. Gas prices were 33 cents a gallon and were presumed to be staying there.... And The Mod Squad!
Insane that the same man who called Vince Young’s touchdown in 2005 called this game in 1969
Who was that?
That is not Keith Jackson
But he didn't.
Freddie was a beast
You gotta love the names of the players - "Cotton" Spyer, Happy Feller ....
This is a classic.. Love the commercials. Chris Schenkel is awesome. The color commentator not so much.
Texas was just that good in the 60's and especially in 69 and 70
Roy Bell, #35 OU was a good player. I've never heard his name before. I did not know that OU had black players at this time.
Turns out Prentice Gautt was the first, in 1956.
I've never seen this game before. Thanks for posting.
Very interesting that commercial breaks last one commercial. There is a move toward shortening the length of college games. Nobody has dared mention less commericals....
If I'm not mistaken OU was one of the first programs to bring on black players.
@@vwm8534 I thought SMU was first in the SWC with Jerry Levias. OU was certainly ahead of Texas and Arkansas. Neither team dressed a black player when they played that epic game.
Most of the commercials were 60 seconds. There were a few 30-second spots making for 2 commercials per break (as at 1:09:54, Ed Reimers for Allstate followed by Casey Kasem for GM). Now there are lots of 15 and 10-second spots, trying to cram in more advertisers.
@@vwm8534 No, that’s not the case. They were certainly ahead of the SWC, but most of the Big 8 teams integrated before Oklahoma. Kansas State integrated at the end of the 1940s. Some Pac-10 teams had black players from the end of the 1930s onward. Michigan had black players from 1932 onward. Loads of northern schools had black players long before Oklahoma.
UNLike whorn
Commentators:
Chris Schenkel, Bud Wilkinson & Bill Flemming.
Rather watch 50 plus year ole FB games than any of the latest (look at me) trash😂
All those ABC sports commentators were very versatile as they could announce just about every sport. Schenkel was mostly known for the Pro Bowlers Tour with Billy Welu and later Bo Burton. Schenkel was also the lead NBA announcer when ABC broadcast games in the 1960s and early 70s.
This was for many years the last time this game would be played on grass. The Cotton Bowl would go to AstroTurf for the 1970 season, the final full season for the Cowboys there (they would play two games there before moving to Texas Stadium midway through the 1971 season).
Grass would return to the Cotton Bowl in 1993, in preparation for the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
@@gregsells8549 Yep. And grass has been there ever since.
Great Game ......... The WishBone Was So Cool To Watch ............ Jim Bertelson ...Wisconsin Boy ........ And Think I heard A DB For Oklahoma .....From Brooklyn NY......... Last Name LaCosta , I think......... Very Cool ......
How about those 1970 Chevys 23:21
Wow these guys are impressive, how about the 11,780 guys who lost their lives same year in Vietnam?
Do you announce this at everythibg you do
Hudson,Wisconsin's Jim Bertelsen
He was a great running back for the Longhorns. Sadly, he died a few years ago.
Wow, that’s awesome.
I would love to find the 68 OU game where Freddie Steinark was better. I'd also like to find the 1970 Cotton Bowl. It was televised, so there should be a copy out there somewhere. Oh, and thanks for posting this one.
Enjoying the old commercials as well - YIKES $17.95 for a tire ---- Holy cow - I'm looking at $500 for two tires for my Lincoln MKZ --- UGH
I paid over $700.00 for a set of Cooper 4x4 tires
That $17.95 was for a snow tire with studs, and the ad likely didn't air in the three Sunbelt states where studded tires were illegal, or other Sunbelt states for that matter. The South probably got a different Goodyear ad, and likewise the Sunoco ad would have been replaced outside their Eastern territory by other oil companies like Conoco or Union 76. And Esso would have been Enco in the West, the reason the company would change to Exxon.
Jack Mildren R.I.P
That was a surprise when he passed. Star fact there was a chance that he was going to start running for governor in Oklahoma.
@@vwm8534 yeah 58, that was kind of sudden.
@@vwm8534, he was OKIE Lt. governor from 1991-94, lost his re-election as a democrat during the 1994 GOP wave both in governorships and federally, under democrat Bill Clinton, and GOP Newt Gingrich as House Speaker. Mildren died in 2008 or '09 at 58..
Originally from Cooper High in Abilene, Tx..
Played dbacks for Colts and Pats, the latter under Fairbanks his college coach, in the pros..
@@robertsprouse9282Wrong.
@@SydneyGreenstreet1227 , my datum is right..
Your contention is wrong.
Prove otherwise with data.
Do it..
Why do they continually refer to "Cotton" Speyrer by his given name Charles when at the beginning of the game they acknowledge he goes by "Cotton"? Sorry - just a bit of minutia ...........
In the Legendary Super Bowl Three in Miami's Orange Bowl in 1969 Longhorn George Sauer and Sooner Eddie Hinton played on opposing sides then too. Sauer for The New York Jets and Hinton for The Baltimore Colts.🤔😉🎤✈🐴🏈🍊B.W.
Good thing they switched to the Wishbone, because Oklahoma was really "three yards and a cloud of dust" in this game.
The late great Arkansan Frank "Herb Tarlek" Bonner of "WKRP in Cincinnati" renown in The GM Commercial near the end of the game.🤔😉🎤🚘🐂🐶📻📺🏈B.W.
UT had only 2 starters (that were announced) not from Texas - Oklahoma had many more out of staters in their starting lineup.......... hmmmmmmm
Oklahoma only had three out of staters in their announced lineup. So there was a difference of one.
Ok - so, if the Sooners are named after the people who were sneaking into the new territory before anyone was allowed to go in - does that mean Oklahoma Sooners are named after cheaters??? Asking for a friend.... LOL and before anyone gets all uptight and in a tizzy - just kidding - ok?
There have been a few times that definition has fit. I am a Sooner fan, so hopefully the others can laugh about it too.
Good information.
The real grass in the Cotton Bowl wouldn't be there much longer, unfortunately.
Just 1969 and that's it
@@michaelleroy9281 And would not return to grass until the 1990's.
Oklahoma ran that backward open wishbone.
They called it the diamond T formation. Specifically set up for Owens.
How close was Dallas to Austin that the Texas Longhorns would play in the Cotton Bowl?
Both Austin tx and Norman ok are equidistant from Dallas give or take two or three miles.
Interstate 35 runs through all three cities.
2:37:40 a very young Wink Martindale
Where is the 1971 game
Wish I had it.
@@vwm8534 I do too that is a legendary classic game. Unfortunately I was five years old when it was played. Would love to see it now as a grown man, but oh well thanks anyway.
OU just made mistake after mistake which has been their history. Without stupid mistakes OU would be greater than they are.
True. But Texas was the better team in '69.
Some other team is forcing many of their mistakes, true?
@@robertsprouse9282 The fumbled punt at the end that broke OU's back is etched in every OU fan's memory who remembers that game. OU had a chance until that happened. Texas was in OU's head back then. Just like OU is in Texas' head these days.
This game always was a sellout at the Cotton Bowl the Cowboys couldn't do that most of the time when they played there
NFL was not as big then (even if the Cowboys got to the NFL Championship game twice, losing both to the Packers). Cowboys would not become "America's Team" until after they moved to Texas Stadium during the 1971 season.
@@WaltGekko Actually not until 1978, that was the title of their highlight film given to them by NFL Films and producer Bob Ryan
@@michaelleroy9281 Ah yes. My point was it didn't happen until after they moved to Texas Stadium when it had been implied it was done while they were still in the Cotton Bowl by some.
@@WaltGekko Back then the Cowboys' nickname was "Next Year's Champions," as they always choked when it counted (back-to-back losses to the Packers, the "Blunder Bowl" against the Colts).
A 1970 Chevy Longhorn commercial in 1969 costarring the guy who goes on to Manage "The Partridge Family"? During The annual classic between The Oklahoma Sooners and The Texas Longhorns no less? There indeed is brand identity!😂🎤🎼🎸🎹🥁📺🚘⛟🐥🐂🐶🏈B.W.
Also pitched the Suburban and Blazer (with an open top). I don't remember the Longhorn, a pickup built to carry campers. Who'd have thought that trucks would eventually overtake cars in sales?