Video: Flashback: Alabama/Auburn 1975

[Slowpoke Catracho]

John Forney, Doug Layton, and Jerry Duncan on the call! Simply the BEST Bama announcing team ever!

Todd, Davis, Shelby, Newsome and Hannah for the Tide! This was Shug Jordan's last game at Auburn.

 

[BamaMoon]

John Forney, Doug Layton, and Jerry Duncan on the call! Simply the BEST Bama announcing team ever!

Todd, Davis, Shelby, Newsome and Hannah for the Tide! This was Shug Jordan's last game at Auburn.

Really cool. The video quality isn't too bad either, considering it's from '75.

 

[Crimson1967]

Barn defense allowed 70 completions going into the game and that was the most in the SEC.

Averaging seven completions per game allowed is the worst in the conference. Times have changed.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

In the Wishbone ..... somebody is open somewhere down field which is why Ozzie Newsome was always able to thrive.

 

[Tideflyer]

Really cool. The video quality isn't too bad either, considering it's from '75.

Johnny Davis. Did he ever lose a yard?

 

[22Musso22]

Jess Chabot has tons of great and rare football YouTube videos. Be sure and check his channel out.

 

[BamaMoon]

Johnny Davis. Did he ever lose a yard?

Did I hear them say he was playing at 225?

That would have been a HUGE running back/full back even in those days when linemen averaged closer to 250 than 300.

 

[bamaga]

Barn defense allowed 70 completions going into the game and that was the most in the SEC.

Averaging seven completions per game allowed is the worst in the conference. Times have changed.

No interceptions for 3 years. It’s crazy how offenses changed from pro set “passing” attacks In the 1960’s ( Scott Hunter averaged 220 yds/game passing in 1969) to triple option rushing attacks in the 70’s ( SEC leading passers averaged less than 7 completions/game and one QB averaged more than 100 yards /game at 109 In 1975).

 

[Tideflyer]

Did I hear them say he was playing at 225?

That would have been a HUGE running back/full back even in those days when linemen averaged closer to 250 than 300.

He was like a truck.

 

[Tideflyer]

Johnny Davis. Did he ever lose a yard?

Didn’t he make one of the Alabama all decade or all century teams? If he didn’t, he deserved to, IMHO.

 

[Tideflyer]

Didn’t he make one of the Alabama all decade or all century teams? If he didn’t, he deserved to, IMHO.

Never mind. All 70’s.

 

[Padreruf]

I had a former Bama player from the early 70's tell me that the whole purpose of the Wishbone offense was to make the defense quit. It was punishing to play against...and that was the point. No longer.

 

[Revrph79]

Vanderbilt was the only team to tackle Johnny Davis for a loss.

 

[dtgreg]

Never mind. All 70’s.

Good enough for me! Shoulda been nicknamed "The Punisher".

 

[dtgreg]

I had a former Bama player from the early 70's tell me that the whole purpose of the Wishbone offense was to make the defense quit. It was punishing to play against...and that was the point. No longer.

Just seeing this. Great minds...

 

[Tideflyer]

Vanderbilt was the only team to tackle Johnny Davis for a loss.

He must have tripped.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

He must have tripped.

IIRC, somebody missed their block...

 

[bamaga]

Good enough for me! Shoulda been nicknamed "The Punisher".

Can’t help but think about Johnny Davis Punishing Ohio St in the 1978 (77 season) Sugar Bowl. I knew he Carried Bama to a national title that day, only to be disappointed .
The first option of the Wishbone is the fullback dive. Run it until they stop it, it opens up the pitch . Ohio State never stopped it.

 

[Tideflyer]

IIRC, somebody missed their block...

Something HAD to have happened. Straight up, Mano a Mano, knocking Johnny Davis down for a loss? Please.