I remember there was a representative of the BBC present for this game, who was interviewed right after. He was asked if he'd ever seen anything like this, and he replied, sort of at a loss for words, that indeed he hadn't. Neither had anyone else.
Davis was an outstanding outfielder and switch-hitter on USC’s 1972, 1973 and 1974 College World Series, National Champion baseball teams. Playing with wood bats at the time, Davis hit .273 with 6 home runs, 45 RBIs and 13 stolen bases for the Trojan’s 1974 National Championship Baseball team. He is the only athlete in USC history to be a starter on 3 national championship baseball, and two national championship football teams.
Davis played in one of the most memorable football games ever and possibly the most famous college baseball game as well when USC played Minnesota in the epic CWS game in 1973 against Dave Winfield.
Was he an All-American in baseball..? During his college career at Maryland (1972-76), John Lucas was a consensus All-American in men's tennis singles and as a point guard on the varsity basketball squad.
Man imagine I was casually changing channels on a lazy fall Saturday in 1974 when I caught the kickoff watched from start to finish plus our Cablevision had 4 stations from LA and they would replay the game constantly one of the happiest days of my life was watching this game and then war of the gargantuas straight afterwood on khj la!!!!
Was at the game..coached #24 Marvin Cobb for USC..at Notre Dame Riverside, Ca. Drove to game with my best friend and his bride as a wedding gift. Both Notre Dame fans..it was a somber drive back for them..years later we still talk about that game.. One of the Greatest College Football Games Ever... I was lucky enough to work for the USC football program years later.. Fight On!
I watched this game! I was only 13 years old, but I remember this game. Wow Anthony Davis was a Super Star! It was all Notre Dame the first half and all USC the second half. What an Amazing Game. It shows what momentum really is!
USC class of 2009 here. One of my roommates told me he thought I was born in the wrong decade and would fit in the 70s better than today. I won't lie, I have a soft spot for 70s music, but I'm beginning to think he knew more than he let on...
I'll never forget this day. I was at a JC college football game in Northern Cal. When the announced the score at half time the whole stadium cheered and chanted beat LA. We were visting from Los Angeles. When the announced the final score my family was the only people cheering in a quiet stadium.
Watched this game as 9 year old in Houston, Tx. This is the game that made me a diehard college football fan for life. We moved to Southern California a couple of weeks after this game.
I was 11 at the time. It is still the most exciting game I have ever watched. 55 points in 17 minutes of game time against the defending national champions and the nations top ranked defense! It made a lifelong USC fan out of a young Iowa boy.
My mom, older brother and I watched it 2gether. At halftime he was running his mouth,..yadayada, mom only said: "Just wait". 49 points later he still hadn't said a word. Go SC!
I saw this one just before my 19th birthday, and it remains the most exciting game I've ever seen. Years later, in 2007, I visited a grade school friend in South Bend, and we had lunch at a downtown restaurant. We went to pay the bill, and there on the wall behind the cashier was a signed photo of Anthony Davis.
Never forget this game, I was 9 and my parents went to dinner that night...My dad bet me that if USC won he owed me $5, if ND won, I owed him a $1....At halftime I thought that I was toast. When I woke next morning there was a $5 bill under my pillow.... Love my Dad !!!!
I was there. I was 24 years old and I graduated from USC in 1972. I have never seen or heard the stadium so electric as that night, everyone was standing up in the student section and the place was rocking. It was the greatest football game I have ever seen in person. FIGHT ON!!!
I was up on top of the press box ... a guest of the two Notre Dame film cameramen. What I saw in the third quarter that day was the most unbelievable transformation I have ever seen on the football field. It was as if the players had gone into the locker rooms at halftime and exchanged uniforms. I sat directly behind Ara Parseghian on the team bus on the way back to the hotel. The bus was very quiet.
I was 24 years old. I graduated from USC in 1972. I was at this game sitting in the student section with my girlfriend. We were in big trouble down 0-24 until the end of the first half and AD scored a touchdown. When we opened the second half with AD running for a kickoff return to the ND endzone, the electricity in the stadium was incredible. I think we stood the entire second half. I haven't been to such a great game as that. Then there was Stanford 2011. A Trojan never forgets these games.
I've always wondered what coach McKay said to these guys in the locker room at half-time that day. It was obviously one hell of a motivational speech!!! I'll never forget this game - for me, the best in football history!!!!
McKay in interview said he reminded team in locker room that his '64 team [Mike Garret and Rod Sherman] came back from large halftime deficit to beat #1 ranked Notre Dame ...
i ssked one of olayers what he said to the team. he said we are getting the shit kicked out of us and left. Dennis Thurmond was the player...he said the seniors said the rest
In an interview Anthony Davis gave he said McKay talked about the 64 game and said McKay told the team the Irish would kick it to Davis and Davis would run it back. Davis said he thought McKay was crazy.
Is the 1972 game up on TH-cam? Anthony Davis scored something like six touchdowns in that game, two of them on kickoffs. I went to that game, too. It was a great game and actually close in the third quarter. The Domers got really confident when they pulled within two points. Then they kicked off to Davis. Bad mistake.
i remember halftime headin outside to throw the football with my older brother. ive never witnessed a comeback as impressive as that,until the 2017 rose bowl.fight the hell on
I remember watching the first half of this game, and then leaving to go to a high school dance. When someone told me what the final score was, I couldn't believe it.
I remember there was somebody, maybe a sportswriter, who turned the game off at halftime. Then later I think he turned it back on and a graphic came up: Second half scoring: USC 49, ND 0. He wrote that he thought it must have been yards gained rushing.
What makes the comeback so incredible was Notre Dame was pretty damn good. They beat Alabama in the Orange Bowl one month later. Had USC not converted the 2 pointer against Ohio State in the Rose Bowl Notre would have finished ranked ahead of them.
I still vividly remember this game. I was 9-yrs old watching it on TV with my dad who was a USC alumn. At halftime I said the “Trojans have lost the game,” down 24-6. My dad sprung up off of the couch and yelled, “son, you never give up! Is that what they should do? As long as there is always time left you fight till the end!!” Well, he was right and I’ve never forgotten those words and that moment. I met Pat Haden 5-yrs ago and told him that story. He said the game meant a lot to him too, he even asked his girlfriend to marry him later that day after the win.
I had been dating my soon to be bride less than a month. She was the daughter and grand-daughter of SC grades. She graduated in '74, I did my master's in '78. Fight On
Most exciting sporting event that I have ever been to. To this day, I remember the deafening roar of the crowd inside the Coliseum, that didn't let up while all of those points were being scored in the second half. After Anthony Davis returned the kickoff, the Trojans momentum could not be stopped and before you knew it, the #1 Trojans had routed the hated. In my mind, the greatest game ever made even sweeter sitting in the Notre Dame section with my friend, who had graduated from ND
I was there above USC rooting section, with my then wife and friends. We got last minute tickets. I was no longer a student, so atte3nding was hit or miss. Ara Parseghian, Domer coach, said he could hear the roar of the crowd and Traveler galloping for ears after. He retired after that season !
I was at a Penn State Syracuse game in the Dome in 87 and I know the feeling of the noise level. SU hadn't beaten Penn State in 17 years and from play one, an 80 yard bomb to halftime, a 41-0 Syracuse lead. I had never heard noise so loud before. To this day I have a hearing issue and I trace it to that game. Watched this game as a 9 year old in Houston. We were moving to California a couple of weeks later. My dad and older brother were driving one of our cars from Houston and they had the game on the radio crossing the desert. My dad turned it off about Indio and when they got to Palmdale later that night he was shocked USC won.
I was a student at USC from 80-85 but this was one of the first college football games I ever watched. I miss those days of 90,000+ crowds and Traveler being able to open up to a full gallop around the Coliseum track. That beautiful stadium just doesn't feel the same now.
That stadium is a dump and the fans are fair weather.. if they are not good they will not show up.. i was their in 2000 when ND ran the ball down their throats😂
I remember this game. I was only about 13 and right after AD went 100 yards to start the second half the power went out. When it came back on it was 55-24 abnd we were like WTF? Defiantely a game to remember. ND was a legit top 10 team back then but USC played one of the great games every. Especially in that second half.
dsfddsgh - I was the same age, but our power didn't go out. We considered turning off the game at half time, but decided to stay with our guys and were we glad we did!!! WHAT A GAME!!!! I still send this vid to my French students who like American football, telling them this was the best game EVER!!!! What a come back and the proof that it ain't over 'til it's over!
Yeah I've never heard the Coliseum as loud as it was that day. When AD took the opening 2nd half kick back the whole place shook. Payback for 51-0 Ara! Gotta love this rivalry.
You know it's a big time game when the winner of this game wins the National Title most years. USC/ND...best rivalry in college football. Miss me with OSU/UM....Michigan hasn't been competitive.
Fond memories for us USC fans. Couldn't believe my eyes. McKay owed Ara one for his running up the score to 55 to zip a few years earlier. Ara did not look like chatting after the post game hand shake did he.
ND didn't run up the score in that game. They led 44-0 after 3 and their last TD was a pick-6. For that matter, USC didn't run it up in this game. Four of their last five TDs were off turnovers. They only outgained ND 410-367.
They attempted a field goal.. And missed it... The crowd booed as I remember. McKay lived up to his promise that that would never happen... Got his own recruits and was ND's nightmare while MC Kay wad around. Ask Ara P
One of the most sensational individual and team efforts ever. This wasn’t Ara’s best ND team, but they came into the game at 9-1 and went on to beat #1 Alabama in the Orange Bowl.
All you youngins, I can tell you there weren't no scroll line underneath the game back in '74. You waited for the half or the end of the game to see how other teams did back when I was 5 years old. Young Schmucks. And things were filmed on Toaster Ovens, Like this here Game. And ya liked it!
I was 14 yrs old at my friend's house in 1974 and we watched this game from kickoff to end. Most exciting football game I had ever seen. You'd have to watch a vid of the entire game to grasp what was happening and the fever pitch of the coliseum crowd. I still get goose bumps thinking about. Anthony Davis was a beast! 6 years later I was an employee at USC and worked there for 19 greats years. My daughter will be attending USC in January. How exciting is that?
I was about same age I walked into a pretty big store and everyone was at the back, literally everybody there women too, watching the tv, I came bopping up “hey whad u watching?” Lol
I was there! It was one of my first dates with my would be bride. She had graduated from SC the prior spring and was terribly embarrassed by the Trojans 1st half performance and wanted to leave. I convinced her to stay - we did not sit down the entire 2nd half! Burn Woody!!!! That was 40+ years ago now and I put my old CD of the game in the player every year on our anniversary - she looks at me shakes her head and rolls her eyes - but she is sitting next to me when AD runs that kick-off back and sets the old colly on fire! FIGHT ON!!!
Well Ara's last coaching game was a huge upset against Alabama in the 1975 Orange Bowl. So.....like yeah I think he left his coaching career as a winner.
Greatest Comeback Ever!!...I Remember it.. I'm a Big Time U.S.C Fan Out of Brooklyn N.Y.....I must have Used Every Curse🤬 Word Imageable before the Half...That's How Much I was Disgusted We S.C. Was Losing to Noted Thier Lame..The Real A.D. (Not the Fragile one on the Lakers) Then Took Over & Put on a Show for Football History!!...The Look on The Noted Thier Lame Coaches & Players Faces😫😭 Getting Destroyed in the Second Half was Priceless!!! 55-24FightOnS.C✌🏈!!!
I watched this game as a 16y/o Ohio State fan(thinking, oh crap the Buckeyes have to play them in the Rose Bowl). I always watched USC's games for the cheerleaders. I remember there was a BBC crew doing a documentary on US college football. They talked to one of the BBC guys late in the game and he says, "I say, that Anthony Davis chap is amazing".
I waws only 2 when this game was played, but I have an older friend who is a big USC fan who would always tell me about this game. It was awesome when this game aired on Classic. What an explosion!
How come nobody mentions the USC defence , shutting down Notre Dame. Or John McKay or Pat Haden. A,D, was one of my all time favourite running backs and what he did was beyond belief but a lot of other people contributed.
In 1976, Anthony Davis went north to Canada to play football in the CFL for the Toronto Argonauts. Needless to say it didn't go well. After getting paid huge dollars (for that time), Davis sulked and loafed, most of the players and the coach (Russ Jackson) hated him, and when Jackson tried to cut him, the owner refused his request.
I was at the beach surfing with a few friends that day in LA. We came home, drank some beers & turned on the game. We were disgusted at 1/2 time and turned on the "Son of Godzilla". We turned the game back on out of morbid curiosity. MF, What a change. The most exciting game can remember - Thanks for the memories - Geo from LA
I saw that game on ABC and absolutely couldn't believe what I was seeing. Talk about a total collapse and ass-kicking in the second half. USC went on to beat Ohio State 18-17 in the Rose Bowl to share the national championship with undefeated but probation-tainted Oklahoma. SC was AP champs while the UPI vote went to OU.
Taylor Moore I remember that Rose Bowl. Ohio State played great defense, but their offense was way too conservative and seemed to be playing not to lose instead of playing to win.
A game similar to this was the TEXAS VS. OKLAHOMA ST. game in 2004. Oklahoma St. was up at halftime 35-3, then texas scored 50+ points in the 2nd half. Yes it wasn't a important game comared to the ND VS. SC '74 but similar that's all.
I was like, 8yrars old watching this game, and got pissed off because I liked USC back when I was a kid, and HATED Notre Dame. At halftime it was like 21-0, or 24-0, and had quit watching it, till my Dad called me to come inside!!
after the game, john mckay ran into notre dame's president in the tunnel. the president told him "that wasn't very nice" mckay, a irish-catholic, replied "that's what you get for hiring a presbyterian (Ara) at a catholic school"
As a nine year old kid, I remember throwing up my thanksgiving leftovers after that 3rd quarter. Believe it or not ND was two quarters away from winning itself a 2nd national championship in a row. 1st quarter against Purdue gave up 24 and 3rd quarter vs SC gave up 35
![NISAMANEE - TADA (ท้าดา) [ OFFICIAL MV ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hcQHEPMmJpU/mqdefault.jpg)
I watched it live so long ago!😊
My uncle played for SC from 68-71. Amazing. FIGHT ON!✌🏻
Jr year of highschool. Watched this with my dad . What a game . Thanks pop.
No. 25 USC WR wearing reminds me of Fred Belitnikov. He was a character for the Raiders.
Legend has it that when ND got back to South Bend they gave Rudy an atomicwedgie for failing to prepare them for the USC D in the second half.
Still have the sports illustrated of that game. I to was 14
I was 12, a big USC fan and watched with my younger brother. We still talk about that game today nearly 50 years later.
I still haven't seen anything like it. 55 points in 17 minutes! Incredible!
Like it was yesterday!
I remember there was a representative of the BBC present for this game, who was interviewed right after. He was asked if he'd ever seen anything like this, and he replied, sort of at a loss for words, that indeed he hadn't. Neither had anyone else.
This game is like 9/11 or 12/7 where most of us can remember almost 50 years later exactly where we we were and who we were with while watching it.
Davis was an outstanding outfielder and switch-hitter on USC’s 1972, 1973 and 1974 College World Series, National Champion baseball teams. Playing with wood bats at the time, Davis hit .273 with 6 home runs, 45 RBIs and 13 stolen bases for the Trojan’s 1974 National Championship Baseball team. He is the only athlete in USC history to be a starter on 3 national championship baseball, and two national championship football teams.
He should've just stuck with baseball as a pro.
Davis played in one of the most memorable football games ever and possibly the most famous college baseball game as well when USC played Minnesota in the epic CWS game in 1973 against Dave Winfield.
He has 3 National Baseball Championships and 2 NCAA Football Championships. Only guy to ever do that. #LEGENDARY
Was he an All-American in baseball..? During his college career at Maryland (1972-76), John Lucas was a consensus All-American in men's tennis singles and as a point guard on the varsity basketball squad.
I was 27 years old!
私は日本人です。中学3年生の時にTVでこのゲームを見ました。アンソニー・デービス、パット・ヘイドン、ジョン・マッケイJr.・アレン・カーターetc USC大好きです。
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
-Keats
Man imagine I was casually changing channels on a lazy fall Saturday in 1974 when I caught the kickoff watched from start to finish plus our Cablevision had 4 stations from LA and they would replay the game constantly one of the happiest days of my life was watching this game and then war of the gargantuas straight afterwood on khj la!!!!
Was at the game..coached #24 Marvin Cobb for USC..at Notre Dame Riverside, Ca.
Drove to game with my best friend and his bride as a wedding gift. Both Notre Dame fans..it was a somber drive back for them..years later we still talk about that game..
One of the Greatest College Football Games Ever...
I was lucky enough to work for the USC football program years later..
Fight On!
Best comeback in history!
I watched this game! I was only 13 years old, but I remember this game. Wow Anthony Davis was a Super Star! It was all Notre Dame the first half and all USC the second half. What an Amazing Game. It shows what momentum really is!
USC class of 2009 here. One of my roommates told me he thought I was born in the wrong decade and would fit in the 70s better than today. I won't lie, I have a soft spot for 70s music, but I'm beginning to think he knew more than he let on...
I'll never forget this day. I was at a JC college football game in Northern Cal. When the announced the score at half time the whole stadium cheered and chanted beat LA. We were visting from Los Angeles. When the announced the final score my
family was the only people cheering in a quiet stadium.
I was very young and it's still the greatest game I've ever seen!!!!
For Southern Cal; Notre Dame is the #1 Rival
No one sat down on the 2nd half
Watched this game as 9 year old in Houston, Tx. This is the game that made me a diehard college football fan for life. We moved to Southern California a couple of weeks after this game.
go to bishop amat vs blair '69 cif champ game to see these guys as hi school u tube--half went to usc/half to ucla,other to pac8--
Time to get back to that level.
I was 11 at the time. It is still the most exciting game I have ever watched. 55 points in 17 minutes of game time against the defending national champions and the nations top ranked defense! It made a lifelong USC fan out of a young Iowa boy.
My mom, older brother and I watched it 2gether. At halftime he was running his mouth,..yadayada, mom only said: "Just wait". 49 points later he still hadn't said a word. Go SC!
Back in the good old days!
I saw this one just before my 19th birthday, and it remains the most exciting game I've ever seen. Years later, in 2007, I visited a grade school friend in South Bend, and we had lunch at a downtown restaurant. We went to pay the bill, and there on the wall behind the cashier was a signed photo of Anthony Davis.
Never forget this game, I was 9 and my parents went to dinner that night...My dad bet me that if USC won he owed me $5, if ND won, I owed him a $1....At halftime I thought that I was toast. When I woke next morning there was a $5 bill under my pillow....
Love my Dad !!!!
I was 6 years old, and remember this game!
I was there. I was 24 years old and I graduated from USC in 1972. I have never seen or heard the stadium so electric as that night, everyone was standing up in the student section and the place was rocking. It was the greatest football game I have ever seen in person. FIGHT ON!!!
I was up on top of the press box ... a guest of the two Notre Dame film cameramen. What I saw in the third quarter that day was the most unbelievable transformation I have ever seen on the football field. It was as if the players had gone into the locker rooms at halftime and exchanged uniforms. I sat directly behind Ara Parseghian on the team bus on the way back to the hotel. The bus was very quiet.
This game changed the way the Heisman was voted. Davis should have gotten it that year. What a travesty.
Sadly, I never got to watch these games, but I have a signed football jersey from Anthony Davis! I love watching these classic clips!
Greatest game I ever seen with USC - Norte Dame!
I was there !!!!
I remember that game. Was a big Notre Dame fan then. I was 15 going on 16. That game broke my heart.
I was 24 years old. I graduated from USC in 1972. I was at this game sitting in the student section with my girlfriend. We were in big trouble down 0-24 until the end of the first half and AD scored a touchdown. When we opened the second half with AD running for a kickoff return to the ND endzone, the electricity in the stadium was incredible. I think we stood the entire second half. I haven't been to such a great game as that. Then there was Stanford 2011. A Trojan never forgets these games.
I'm a Sooner fan but remember that game vividly. Great video.
It was a was a totally awesome experience to be there i can tell you all that, from the band, traveler, all the fans at the game it was euphoric.
I was in high school when I watched this game. Anthony Davis put on a show in the 2nd half!
The most amazing comeback and beatdown in the history of American football. Period, end of report.
Those were some good days. I remember that game so well.
I've always wondered what coach McKay said to these guys in the locker room at half-time that day. It was obviously one hell of a motivational speech!!! I'll never forget this game - for me, the best in football history!!!!
McKay in interview said he reminded team in locker room that his '64 team [Mike Garret and Rod Sherman] came back from large halftime deficit to beat #1 ranked Notre Dame ...
Thanks, Lynn! :D
pepoppins I remember the announcer saying that Anthony Davis had told the team to block and he would do the rest 😀
i ssked one of olayers what he said to the team.
he said we are getting the shit kicked out of us and left. Dennis Thurmond was the player...he said the seniors said the rest
In an interview Anthony Davis gave he said McKay talked about the 64 game and said McKay told the team the Irish would kick it to Davis and Davis would run it back. Davis said he thought McKay was crazy.
Remember this game like it was played yesterday. WOW!!! The Men of Troy really put on a show. Best comeback EVER!!!
Is the 1972 game up on TH-cam? Anthony Davis scored something like six touchdowns in that game, two of them on kickoffs. I went to that game, too. It was a great game and actually close in the third quarter. The Domers got really confident when they pulled within two points. Then they kicked off to Davis. Bad mistake.
I remember watching this game with my dad. Why on earth would they keep kicking the ball to him? 😂 What an incredible game.
i remember halftime headin outside to throw the football with my older brother. ive never witnessed a comeback as impressive as that,until the 2017 rose bowl.fight the hell on
55 UNANSWERED points!!!!
I remember watching the first half of this game, and then leaving to go to a high school dance. When someone told me what the final score was, I couldn't believe it.
I remember there was somebody, maybe a sportswriter, who turned the game off at halftime. Then later I think he turned it back on and a graphic came up: Second half scoring: USC 49, ND 0. He wrote that he thought it must have been yards gained rushing.
I was there..couldn't believe what I saw..Couldn't speak for 3 days after..
The music kills this video. Really distracting.
I once heard Anthony Davis say... “we scored 49 points, in 10 minutes!”.. lol..
What makes the comeback so incredible was Notre Dame was pretty damn good. They beat Alabama in the Orange Bowl one month later. Had USC not converted the 2 pointer against Ohio State in the Rose Bowl Notre would have finished ranked ahead of them.
I still vividly remember this game. I was 9-yrs old watching it on TV with my dad who was a USC alumn. At halftime I said the “Trojans have lost the game,” down 24-6. My dad sprung up off of the couch and yelled, “son, you never give up! Is that what they should do? As long as there is always time left you fight till the end!!” Well, he was right and I’ve never forgotten those words and that moment. I met Pat Haden 5-yrs ago and told him that story. He said the game meant a lot to him too, he even asked his girlfriend to marry him later that day after the win.
I had been dating my soon to be bride less than a month. She was the daughter and grand-daughter of SC grades. She graduated in '74, I did my master's in '78. Fight On
Most exciting sporting event that I have ever been to. To this day, I remember the deafening roar of the crowd inside the Coliseum, that didn't let up while all of those points were being scored in the second half. After Anthony Davis returned the kickoff, the Trojans momentum could not be stopped and before you knew it, the #1 Trojans had routed the hated. In my mind, the greatest game ever made even sweeter sitting in the Notre Dame section with my friend, who had graduated from ND
I was there above USC rooting section, with my then wife and friends. We got last minute tickets. I was no longer a student, so atte3nding was hit or miss. Ara Parseghian, Domer coach, said he could hear the roar of the crowd and Traveler galloping for ears after. He retired after that season !
I was at a Penn State Syracuse game in the Dome in 87 and I know the feeling of the noise level. SU hadn't beaten Penn State in 17 years and from play one, an 80 yard bomb to halftime, a 41-0 Syracuse lead. I had never heard noise so loud before. To this day I have a hearing issue and I trace it to that game. Watched this game as a 9 year old in Houston. We were moving to California a couple of weeks later. My dad and older brother were driving one of our cars from Houston and they had the game on the radio crossing the desert. My dad turned it off about Indio and when they got to Palmdale later that night he was shocked USC won.
I was a student at USC from 80-85 but this was one of the first college football games I ever watched. I miss those days of 90,000+ crowds and Traveler being able to open up to a full gallop around the Coliseum track. That beautiful stadium just doesn't feel the same now.
That stadium is a dump and the fans are fair weather.. if they are not good they will not show up.. i was their in 2000 when ND ran the ball down their throats😂
I was 13 years old what a game especially for USC Davis.
I think Irish coach Ara Parseghian had a psychotic episode after the game...he was never the same. lol...go trojans!
I remember this game. I was only about 13 and right after AD went 100 yards to start the second half the power went out. When it came back on it was 55-24 abnd we were like WTF? Defiantely a game to remember. ND was a legit top 10 team back then but USC played one of the great games every. Especially in that second half.
dsfddsgh - I was the same age, but our power didn't go out. We considered turning off the game at half time, but decided to stay with our guys and were we glad we did!!! WHAT A GAME!!!! I still send this vid to my French students who like American football, telling them this was the best game EVER!!!! What a come back and the proof that it ain't over 'til it's over!
I was 7 when me and my older brother watched this game
このゲームは、中学校の頃、近畿放送「カレッジフットボール イン USA」で見ました。解説はもちろん武田健監督。アンソニー・デービス、パット・ヘイドン、ジョン・マッケイJr、アレン・カーター、リチャード・ウッド・・・名前は今でも覚えています。当時、雑誌「タッチダウン」は隔月発行でカレッジ中心でした。また、ローズボウルも生中継されていました。このメンバーのローズボウルは３年連続オハイオステートとの試合でサザンキャルが18-17で勝ち、ナショナルチャンピオンになりました。（オクラホマの何かの罰則で、APかどちらかのみの1位でしたが）そうそう、この時の「タッチダウン」の表紙はパット・ヘイドンがアンソニー・デービスにボールを渡している写真です。まだ、その「タッチダウン」持っています
Yeah I've never heard the Coliseum as loud as it was that day. When AD took the opening 2nd half kick back the whole place shook. Payback for 51-0 Ara! Gotta love this rivalry.
I bet it was loud. I wasn't there but you could tell from the video that the fans were rabid.
You know it's a big time game when the winner of this game wins the National Title most years.
USC/ND...best rivalry in college football. Miss me with OSU/UM....Michigan hasn't been competitive.
WOW! This was the first college football game i watch as a kid... And been hooked every since...
Fond memories for us USC fans. Couldn't believe my eyes. McKay owed Ara one for his running up the score to 55 to zip a few years earlier. Ara did not look like chatting after the post game hand shake did he.
ND didn't run up the score in that game. They led 44-0 after 3 and their last TD was a pick-6. For that matter, USC didn't run it up in this game. Four of their last five TDs were off turnovers. They only outgained ND 410-367.
They attempted a field goal.. And missed it... The crowd booed as I remember. McKay lived up to his promise that that would never happen... Got his own recruits and was ND's nightmare while MC Kay wad around. Ask Ara P
Those where the days , remember it like it was yesterday !
The actual commentary added to this game what Elton never could. Bad idea.
I saw this game and I will never forget it! Anthony Davis was unstoppable!
Most USC RBs tank when they get to the NFL. Davis was one of them.
That's the question I'd have... What happened to Davis in the NFL??
I remember watching this game with my father and grandfather back here in New Jersey. I was 14 at the time....
FIGHT ON!!!
One of the most sensational individual and team efforts ever. This wasn’t Ara’s best ND team, but they came into the game at 9-1 and went on to beat #1 Alabama in the Orange Bowl.
This was a time when 5 foot 8 inch 185 pound tailback could excel at this game.
All you youngins, I can tell you there weren't no scroll line underneath the game back in '74. You waited for the half or the end of the game to see how other teams did back when I was 5 years old. Young Schmucks. And things were filmed on Toaster Ovens, Like this here Game. And ya liked it!
I was 14 yrs old at my friend's house in 1974 and we watched this game from kickoff to end. Most exciting football game I had ever seen. You'd have to watch a vid of the entire game to grasp what was happening and the fever pitch of the coliseum crowd. I still get goose bumps thinking about. Anthony Davis was a beast!
6 years later I was an employee at USC and worked there for 19 greats years. My daughter will be attending USC in January. How exciting is that?
Yes, you have to watch the whole game, also bearing in mind the result of the 1966 game, and the whole history of the rivalry.
I’m the same age . What a time for USC
Damn...yall knew you were gay at 14 watching these 2 jokes play
Great story
I was about same age I walked into a pretty big store and everyone was at the back, literally everybody there women too, watching the tv, I came bopping up “hey whad u watching?” Lol
@MrTennesseeVols
Wasn't the Sooners on NCAA probation and they couldn't go to a bowl or appear on TV at that time?
I was there! It was one of my first dates with my would be bride. She had graduated from SC the prior spring and was terribly embarrassed by the Trojans 1st half performance and wanted to leave. I convinced her to stay - we did not sit down the entire 2nd half! Burn Woody!!!! That was 40+ years ago now and I put my old CD of the game in the player every year on our anniversary - she looks at me shakes her head and rolls her eyes - but she is sitting next to me when AD runs that kick-off back and sets the old colly on fire! FIGHT ON!!!
Well Ara's last coaching game was a huge upset against Alabama in the 1975 Orange Bowl. So.....like yeah I think he left his coaching career as a winner.
Greatest Comeback Ever!!...I Remember it.. I'm a Big Time U.S.C Fan Out of Brooklyn N.Y.....I must have Used Every Curse🤬 Word Imageable before the Half...That's How Much I was Disgusted We S.C. Was Losing to Noted Thier Lame..The Real A.D. (Not the Fragile one on the Lakers) Then Took Over & Put on a Show for Football History!!...The Look on The Noted Thier Lame Coaches & Players Faces😫😭 Getting Destroyed in the Second Half was Priceless!!! 55-24FightOnS.C✌🏈!!!
I watched this game as a 16y/o Ohio State fan(thinking, oh crap the Buckeyes have to play them in the Rose Bowl). I always watched USC's games for the cheerleaders. I remember there was a BBC crew doing a documentary on US college football. They talked to one of the BBC guys late in the game and he says, "I say, that Anthony Davis chap is amazing".
haha I watched their cheerleaders too they always had the best BUTTONS on their tops hehe
I remember that rose bowl, it was close, but OSU lost 18-17.
They were so good😊
I waws only 2 when this game was played, but I have an older friend who is a big USC fan who would always tell me about this game. It was awesome when this game aired on Classic. What an explosion!
Killer wedge blocking to spring Davis on that KO return! Did the rest himself, of course, but great job by the wedge guys.
How come nobody mentions the USC defence , shutting down Notre Dame. Or John McKay or Pat Haden. A,D, was one of my all time favourite running backs and what he did was beyond belief but a lot of other people contributed.
@fmagalhaes1521 FYI, the coach at Notre Dame was Ara Parseghian for this game, Devine didn't take over until the next season.
I watched this game on TV. I can still close my eyes and see Anthony Davis return the 2nd half kick off for the touchdown. Amazing game.
I had a bet (USC to win) with a friend and at the half gave up and we went out play golf. Returning later -what a surprise!
In 1976, Anthony Davis went north to Canada to play football in the CFL for the Toronto Argonauts. Needless to say it didn't go well. After getting paid huge dollars (for that time), Davis sulked and loafed, most of the players and the coach (Russ Jackson) hated him, and when Jackson tried to cut him, the owner refused his request.
I was at the beach surfing with a few friends that day in LA. We came home, drank some beers & turned on the game. We were disgusted at 1/2 time and turned on the "Son of Godzilla". We turned the game back on out of morbid curiosity. MF, What a change. The most exciting game can remember - Thanks for the memories - Geo from LA
If anyone has the 1972 USC-ND highlights, I'd love to see that. I was at that game and watched Anthony Davis run back two kickoffs on the Domers.
th-cam.com/video/njCFHcXtRMQ/w-d-xo.html
I saw that game on ABC and absolutely couldn't believe what I was seeing. Talk about a total collapse and ass-kicking in the second half. USC went on to beat Ohio State 18-17 in the Rose Bowl to share the national championship with undefeated but probation-tainted Oklahoma. SC was AP champs while the UPI vote went to OU.
Taylor Moore I remember that Rose Bowl. Ohio State played great defense, but their offense was way too conservative and seemed to be playing not to lose instead of playing to win.
This video needs the full game treatment 7 and half minutes don't do it justice.
A game similar to this was the TEXAS VS. OKLAHOMA ST. game in 2004. Oklahoma St. was up at halftime 35-3, then texas scored 50+ points in the 2nd half. Yes it wasn't a important game comared to the ND VS. SC '74 but similar that's all.
I was like, 8yrars old watching this game, and got pissed off because I liked USC back when I was a kid, and HATED Notre Dame. At halftime it was like 21-0, or 24-0, and had quit watching it, till my Dad called me to come inside!!
I saw this game too - televised. WHAT a great televised fooball game that experience iwas ! ! !
after the game, john mckay ran into notre dame's president in the tunnel.
the president told him "that wasn't very nice"
mckay, a irish-catholic, replied "that's what you get for hiring a presbyterian (Ara) at a catholic school"
I remember this game. It was hilarious as my old man didn't think that USC would come back.
I like the songs and how they're synchronized with the action. Great job!
As a nine year old kid, I remember throwing up my thanksgiving leftovers after that 3rd quarter. Believe it or not ND was two quarters away from winning itself a 2nd national championship in a row. 1st quarter against Purdue gave up 24 and 3rd quarter vs SC gave up 35