Since It's Notre Dame Week - 1969

The Wasp said:
Official attendance was 41,101. Notre Dame was #9 that year. TV was a rarity in those days, only one game per week. ABC televised it which probably contributed to the less than capacity. Two weeks later we beat Georgia at Grant Field 6-0. Attendance was full - 60,106.
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This was the Saturday night 9PM game on ABC, the coldest I ever played in til we went to South Bend again in November the next year.

sarcasm on/"Saint Ara"/sarcasm off had Theisman in all game throwing bombs, even up 30-0, which is how Jeff Ford came to have a 102 yard INT TD return right before halftime.

We won the 2nd half 14-8, but you play two halves & the final was good guys 20, domers 38. ND had three All-American & future NFL DLs, Mike McCoy, Mike Kadish, and Walt Patulski. Their weights were all listed as 245 or 250, but when we asked them their true weights they said those were their Freshman weights! I spent the night being tossed like a rag doll by Kadish on every punt, deposited at the feet of our punter Tommy Chapman.

IIRC, this was the second fish incident. Ara had done the same thing in the 1967 day game with Terry Hanratty, Bob Gladieux, Rocky Bleier & Co. at GF. With the '69 game starting so late, the Student Body had plenty of time to get insulated/intoxicated to the cold & ready for the game.
 
I think the 59.8K capacity included the temporary seats on the track. The most attendance I remember ever seeing was ~63.2K for the '73 UGA game. BTW, the cheerleaders sweaters are the right color of Gold.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
I think the 59.8K capacity included the temporary seats on the track. The most attendance I remember ever seeing was ~63.2K for the '73 UGA game. BTW, the cheerleaders sweaters are the right color of Gold.
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I was including the "normal" sideline bleachers, but IIRC they didn't put bleachers in the south curve until the mid-Nov ND game. I could be wrong.
 
DeepSnap said:
This was the Saturday night 9PM game on ABC, the coldest I ever played in til we went to South Bend again in November the next year.

sarcasm on/"Saint Ara"/sarcasm off had Theisman in all game throwing bombs, even up 30-0, which is how Jeff Ford came to have a 102 yard INT TD return right before halftime.

We won the 2nd half 14-8, but you play two halves & the final was good guys 20, domers 38. ND had three All-American & future NFL DLs, Mike McCoy, Mike Kadish, and Walt Patulski. Their weights were all listed as 245 or 250, but when we asked them their true weights they said those were their Freshman weights! I spent the night being tossed like a rag doll by Kadish on every punt, deposited at the feet of our punter Tommy Chapman.

IIRC, this was the second fish incident. Ara had done the same thing in the 1967 day game with Terry Hanratty, Bob Gladieux, Rocky Bleier & Co. at GF. With the '69 game starting so late, the Student Body had plenty of time to get insulated/intoxicated to the cold & ready for the game.
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Thought punter was Tommy Carlisle, who handled all the kicking duties.
 
goldeagle said:
Thought punter was Tommy Carlisle, who handled all the kicking duties.
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Partial credit.... you're thinking of Tommy Carmichael, PK in 1965, 1966, & 1967. Don't recall if he punted, but I doubt it. '66 was Jerry Priestley & '67-'69 was Chapman.

Tommy Carlisle was a FB/LB/DE who also lettered in 1965, 1966, & 1967. Believe he was from Avondale.... killed in June of '71 near Bremen, GA, in a "Good Samaritan" accident where he tried to help someone out of a wrecked dynamite truck, but was killed along with several others when the truck exploded.

Our punters in 1969 were Tommy Chapman & Chip Pallman, both of whom also played WR. And thank goodness they both could jump.
 
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