Old bruin79
Joined: 11/29/11 Posts: 2,077
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Posted Sat, Jan 28 8:06 pm
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In response to THE SINGLE WING... (bigtmebruin)
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I would travel from Newbury Park to Malibu to watch these kids. You can really tell the kids enjoy playing. And the offense their using, they get it!
The music is great and at the 4 minute mark is priceless, gave me goose bumps.
I hope you had something to do with this and if you did my sincere Thank You. This brought back great memories of when we used to play from pop warner to high school.
Live and Die A BRUIN...
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tdabruin
Joined: 2/09/05 Posts: 180
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Posted Sat, Jan 28 8:47 pm
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In response to THE SINGLE WING... (bigtmebruin)
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That had such style to it, unique in college football at the time. The single wing was true smashmouth football. Single wing right: we're gonna run around the right side. Think you can stop us? Same thing on the left. No deception.
It wouldn't work today, but it was fun to watch then.
Go Bruins!!!
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Southern Drawl
Joined: 6/25/05 Posts: 677
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Posted Sat, Jan 28 8:52 pm
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In response to THE SINGLE WING... (bigtmebruin)
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Say have they turned the pages back to the past once more,
Back to the football ages and a real team out of yore,
Say don't tell me I'm daffy, but ain't that the same old grin,
Why it's that genius guy named Sanders, coaching another win.
That was the most entertaining nine minutes of football I've seen since 1958. Yes, bigtimebruin, I remember it well, when they once played football at Ucla. Oh my, how they played football at Ucla.
Pasadena Bruin would tell you that I could go on until tommorrow morning. Sanders' Bru-enns' (two sylable word) clad in sky blue and moleskin, serpentining into formation left, were the something special of all football and the class of the college game. |
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AnthemForOne
Joined: 2/07/05 Posts: 2,586
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Posted Sun, Jan 29 4:09 am
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In response to THE SINGLE WING... (bigtmebruin)
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What a testament to advances in modern training and nutrition.
Where on Earth did you discover such incredible color footage though?
Khosh bashain...
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UCLA 65
Joined: 4/26/05 Posts: 8,737
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Posted Sun, Jan 29 5:04 am
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In response to THE SINGLE WING... (bigtmebruin)
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There's a high school up here that runs the Wing as well as anyone ever did. They are a pleasure to watch.
Bellevue has won a bunch of state championships and is the team thet ended De la Salle's 151 game win streak back in 2006. Beat LB Poly the next year and are now one of those schools that plays a game or two a year vs the best from around the country.
They send the occasional lineman to 1-A but that's about it. They win with preciseness that the players learn early on as the Pop Warner teams in the area use the same offense. |
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BRUIN59
Joined: 2/04/05 Posts: 716
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Posted Sun, Jan 29 7:16 am
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In response to THE SINGLE WING... (bigtmebruin)
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Do you remember some of the scores? We beat
San Diego Navy team 67-0 to open the season
Stanford 72-0
suc 34-0
Cal 47-0
The Washington game was the only close game and was won by a last minute field goal by Jim Decker the wingback. It was the only field goal in his career.
Do you remember that Monday classes were cancelled after the suc game so we could celebrate. Thousands marched down Westwood Blvd. Many of us met at Dude's, which was a great and lively beer pub in Westwood. Many of the players were there to toast their team mates. I believe it was Hardiman Cuerton (sp?) who toasted Jim Decker and introduced him as "hit um in the pecker Decker". Beer busts on fraternity row broke out in the afternoon. It was a great day.
The games, in those days, were highlighted by card stunts for day games and light stunts for the night games.
It was a great time to be at UCLA. For you youngsters---you really missed an era that will never be duplicated.
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artking59
Joined: 8/29/11 Posts: 1,367
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Posted Sun, Jan 29 10:45 am
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In response to THE SINGLE WING... (bigtmebruin)
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That was fun!!!One game each season they let the kids play at halftime, I always look forward to that, hilarious!!!
Kudos to you for following the team since "49"! I only go back as far as Dennis Dummit, late 60s to 70 or 71. REALLY good to know there are few on this board OLDER, ERRR, more venerable, than me. LOL!
Have a GREAT sunday bigtme! |
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OlderBruin
Joined: 10/27/06 Posts: 319
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Posted Sun, Jan 29 11:32 am
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In response to THE SINGLE WING... (bigtmebruin)
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I especially like the kids faking the pass on direct snap runs. I can remember Paul Cameron (I believe it was him) standing at the snap as if to pass while Bob Davenport took the direct snap and followed Terry DeBay's blocking through the line. Our offensive line under Sanders was so good that I can still recall a game photo in the old LA Daily News (Not the current one) of DeBay heading through a huge hole opened by the line which left him nobody to block, not even a linebacker. Indeed, those were the days. |
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Cheer4
Joined: 7/18/11 Posts: 641
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Posted Sun, Jan 29 1:25 pm
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In response to THE SINGLE WING... (bigtmebruin)
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Red used to refer to his offense as "horse and buggy with a TV in the dashboard". It was for his 'O' that the term "3 yards and a cloud of dust" was coined. There used to be a large photo in the football office that showed the tailback (I believe Paul Camron) sweeping around right end with the fullback & two linemen leading the way. It looked like a total wipeout of the 'D' but down in the corner it said "This play gained 3 yards!)Ah, the UCLA Single Wing!!! Red was also the first one, not Lombardy, to say "winning isn't the most important thing, it is the only thing". |
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