At 0:05 you can see the building behind the south end zone. that is " Weil Hall" the Civil Engineering building. Spent countless hours in that building and the best thing of all it was across the street from the stadium great times!. I graduated in 09 and is great to see the CE building was always there. Thanks for posting!
@BigMDS67 Well consider this. Back then QB's who completed just barely over 50% of their passes were considered God's so maybe back then 6-4 wasn't so bad.
It doesn't matter if you're a Florida fan or a Miami fan, THAT video (old film) is really neat! Thanks for sharing it.
My dad was in school at that time. He's a 1954 UF grad, so chances are good he was at the game.
Seeing a few shots of the old north end zone was nice. It was only about 30 rows high until 1990 when UF built up the massive north end zone. In the shots to the video's right, you can see the south end zone & Stadium Drive (I have no idea what the road may have been called then).
BTW, I've gotta concede, when I got an email notification that someone had posted in this thread, I expected it to be a Gator fan chortling about their victory over the Canes last week. You're comment was a very welcome relief. :)
As a UM alumni born and raised 18 years in Gainesville, this is fascinating. I don't think the 352 had a stoplight back then from the appearance of the Florida Field. Hurricanes are going to pull the upset again this year baby! Tebow will be crushed.
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Gator fans need to get over it. What a bunch of babies! Sorry, next time maybe the Miami AD should have special accomodations made so that the whimpy Gator fans don't get their feelings hurt. The Canes lead the series...time to face it.
miami last went to gainseville in 2002. they were an underdog and they blew out uf something like 41-16. in 2003 miami was favored and won 38-33. the assumptions and drama is always differnt leading up to the game. but there are a few things that have stayed constant each time they play for the last two decades. 1) uf fans say they will win. 2) they don't, miami always wins.
ok since you are young and dont know the history, ill give you the short version. miami and florida was once a great rivalry, then florida refused to play miami anymore. we hardly ever play. each time we do play, gators fans say they will win, but then they lose. its a tradition.
the record is 28-25 in miami's favor. miami also has more championships. miami also has more first round draft choices. miami has also gone undefeated 4 times. the gaytors have never done that.
dixon not finishing the season should not have mattered in my opinion. he was a lock heisman winner but because he got injured with two games left or whatever it was he didn't win it? that was not a good enough reason. mcfadden was hands down a better player than tebow. he probably had a better arm than tebow. why didn't kevin smith win the heisman??? kevin smith had better stats than anyone in the country but doesn't get any consideration.
tebow LOST to lsu, georgia, and kentucky's not a real great team. dixon BEAT usc. Kevin Smith tore it up against Texas which is always a good team, they lost but Kevin Smith almost single-handedly won that game.
Kentucky had Andre Woodson who was a hesiman contestan at one point and Kentucky Beat Lsu in o.t..Kevin Smith had 29 RUSHING td's tim tebwo had like 20ish... o ya Tebow is a QB not a running back
dixon played one good team USC
teams like Arizona state and Fresno state dont count
lsu and georgia are good. you are waisting your time if you are trying to convince me they are good. they were probably the two best teams in college football last year. but tebow lost to both of them. so i don't see why those games should be used as a reason of why the sports writers decided it was a good idea to give something like the heisman to a player like tim tebow. that should go to the best player in america. not the player who lost to the best teams.
you don't remember the lsu game very well because he did throw an int. he thew an interception late in the game that basically lost the game for the gaytors. he also completed less than half of his passes which is pretty pitiful. i don't believe tebow benches that much. but even if he benched 10tons, that shouldn't win someone the heisman.
Oregon did NOT lose to arizona state. again you made something up. oregon did lose to ucla but only because dixon was injured. you are stupid.
Yeah, I'm not surprised my dad was ahead of the curve, with a color camera in the mid '50s. When I was a kid we always had the first remote control in the neighborhood, first VCR, portable TVs, etc.
LOL. It certainly has changed. My dad's computer dates to '99, and he still uses headphones and radios and binoculars that I remember from the '70s.
I note both teams are wearing dark but different colored jersies. This was common before black and white TV broadcasts caused a switch to visiting teams in white jersies, (there was a lag time before that became common). It made for an even more colorful look back then.
wow! Thanks for this video. I saw the Florida cloth and miami banner. The quality is poor but I can see and tell. This has to be up in Gainesville. It doesn't look like the orange bowl.
Hard to tell, but I think it looks like a regular saddle cloth.
Great creativity for the card stunt crew to make it a Gator saddle cloth.
I wonder when card stunts went out of style? As a kid in the late '60s I remember a few times they had cards under your seat at the Orange Bowl and we were told to hold them up. Seemed stupid to me but I guess I never saw the intended product from afar. That might have been at Orange Bowl games with the fancy halftime show, not regular season games.
The animosity canes fans have for UF, I don't think that will happen. It's worse now than it was in the early 80's!
As a gator fan, I wasn't happy when they ended the series, but the way gator fans were treated at the OB in '87 (the last continous game of the series), I changed my thoughts. I went to the OB in '03 and nothing has changed. I think playing home-and-home every 4 or 5 years would be better for both teams.
Thank you. As soon as I saw it I was confident others would appreciate it also.
I noticed it got linked on Gator forums and they commented on all the changes to the Swamp. The only thing I recognized from the games I attended in the '70s and '80s was that building behind the end zone.
At 0:05 you can see the building behind the south end zone. that is " Weil Hall" the Civil Engineering building. Spent countless hours in that building and the best thing of all it was across the street from the stadium great times!. I graduated in 09 and is great to see the CE building was always there. Thanks for posting!
tekiman25 1 month ago
56 wasn't a great year for Florida,they went 6-4.
BigMDS67 1 year ago
@BigMDS67 Well consider this. Back then QB's who completed just barely over 50% of their passes were considered God's so maybe back then 6-4 wasn't so bad.
DirkXXVI 1 year ago
which game was the game that never happend?
dorrishero 1 year ago
Great footage. That's well before my time, it's amazing how steadily the stadium has grown over the years.
stamargo71 2 years ago
It doesn't matter if you're a Florida fan or a Miami fan, THAT video (old film) is really neat! Thanks for sharing it.
My dad was in school at that time. He's a 1954 UF grad, so chances are good he was at the game.
Seeing a few shots of the old north end zone was nice. It was only about 30 rows high until 1990 when UF built up the massive north end zone. In the shots to the video's right, you can see the south end zone & Stadium Drive (I have no idea what the road may have been called then).
FloridaGator96 2 years ago
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Callofdoodoo 2 years ago
BTW that's exactly 100 years after the school was founded. =D
topdawg567 2 years ago
That's Ben Hill Griffin Stadium!? MY GOD IT"S SMALL!
topdawg567 2 years ago
Thank you for putting this on here! I wish there was more of this!!!!
driver8train 2 years ago
wow great video. Its always good to see how differnt college football was back then. great vid.
m33smitty 2 years ago
This video is so much fun to watch !
I love videos like this and the appearance of Needles is fantastic.
Thank you for posting :)
Jazzgirl8888 3 years ago 5
You're welcome, Jazzgirl.
BTW, I've gotta concede, when I got an email notification that someone had posted in this thread, I expected it to be a Gator fan chortling about their victory over the Canes last week. You're comment was a very welcome relief. :)
AwsiDooger 3 years ago
your not you're
AwsiDooger 3 years ago
Dude, thats awsome...did one of your family members play ball for either team?
My dad played for the Canes in the 70's and he said he found an old video and the part where it was cued up at, it was of them fumbling the ball, lol
twentybinders 3 years ago 4
LOL. That's a great story.
If it was during the '70s I'm sure I saw that fumble.:)
None of my relatives played for the Canes. My parents are alums Class of '55.
AwsiDooger 3 years ago
right, i forgot to read before i commented.
He's trying to put that game from some old tape, not beta or vhs, something else...on dvd. I hope he can do it.
twentybinders 3 years ago 3
I can't wait til the Gators DESTROY the Canes this year
TheDude92486 3 years ago
Wow, way cool man!!! That is some top class shit right here!
beerale9 3 years ago
As a UM alumni born and raised 18 years in Gainesville, this is fascinating. I don't think the 352 had a stoplight back then from the appearance of the Florida Field. Hurricanes are going to pull the upset again this year baby! Tebow will be crushed.
redlineoverload 3 years ago
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keyur1111 3 years ago
Wow this is amazing footage, thanks for sharing. Interesting to see how the UF stadium and campus has changed over the past 52 years.
rmueller11 3 years ago
Gator fans need to get over it. What a bunch of babies! Sorry, next time maybe the Miami AD should have special accomodations made so that the whimpy Gator fans don't get their feelings hurt. The Canes lead the series...time to face it.
rosiecane 3 years ago
correction Arizona*
and ur right they should win to teams like
Frescno state and Washington state
qb's dont usually bench 450-500...idk who realyl does..
tebow is a sophmore and he competed w/ GREAT teams and he did well in all of them...bottom line i belive it was close between mcfadden and tebow.
but tebow had more td's and he had a better record.
btchr17 3 years ago
is this what the games looked like the last time the gators beat miami? hahaha
hovde4 4 years ago
we will win this year
HAAH
btchr17 3 years ago
we'll see.
hovde4 3 years ago
yep.
the teams r baout equallly ranked
btchr17 3 years ago
miami last went to gainseville in 2002. they were an underdog and they blew out uf something like 41-16. in 2003 miami was favored and won 38-33. the assumptions and drama is always differnt leading up to the game. but there are a few things that have stayed constant each time they play for the last two decades. 1) uf fans say they will win. 2) they don't, miami always wins.
hovde4 3 years ago
ok
i'm 14 so in 2003 i was 10 so idc about the past.
i just know last year u suked..and the year b4.
and florida is gettin a lot better
tebow is a junior...and and many other players have aged
and we have gottten
btchr17 3 years ago
ok since you are young and dont know the history, ill give you the short version. miami and florida was once a great rivalry, then florida refused to play miami anymore. we hardly ever play. each time we do play, gators fans say they will win, but then they lose. its a tradition.
hovde4 3 years ago
the record is 25-27
.........................
btchr17 3 years ago
the record is 28-25 in miami's favor. miami also has more championships. miami also has more first round draft choices. miami has also gone undefeated 4 times. the gaytors have never done that.
hovde4 3 years ago
were talkin about the Florida Miami Game
25-27*
we got the heisman winner
btchr17 3 years ago
what is 25-27??
the record is 28-25 in miami's favor.
tebow should not have won the heisman. brohm, mcfadden, and dixon were all better.
hovde4 3 years ago
wat r u talking about
tebow had 32 passing touchdowns
and 23 running touchdowns AND he is a sophmore
mcfadden is a RB and he had 21 rusing td's
Dixon didnt even finish the year
a
btchr17 3 years ago
dixon not finishing the season should not have mattered in my opinion. he was a lock heisman winner but because he got injured with two games left or whatever it was he didn't win it? that was not a good enough reason. mcfadden was hands down a better player than tebow. he probably had a better arm than tebow. why didn't kevin smith win the heisman??? kevin smith had better stats than anyone in the country but doesn't get any consideration.
hovde4 3 years ago
who does kevin smith play? wat ranked teams did he beat?
same w/ dixon, oregons schedule SUKED so and
and when u play suky teams it makes u look good
Tebow played LSU,Georgia,Kentucky, and a lot more..
i agree if tebow didnt score so many td's Mcfadden deserved it b/c he is a senior and he is good to
btchr17 3 years ago
tebow LOST to lsu, georgia, and kentucky's not a real great team. dixon BEAT usc. Kevin Smith tore it up against Texas which is always a good team, they lost but Kevin Smith almost single-handedly won that game.
hovde4 3 years ago
lsu Blew out ohio state at the Championship
Georgia blew out Hawaii the Suagr Bowl
Kentucky had Andre Woodson who was a hesiman contestan at one point and Kentucky Beat Lsu in o.t..Kevin Smith had 29 RUSHING td's tim tebwo had like 20ish... o ya Tebow is a QB not a running back
dixon played one good team USC
teams like Arizona state and Fresno state dont count
Tim tebow
btchr17 3 years ago
lsu and georgia are good. you are waisting your time if you are trying to convince me they are good. they were probably the two best teams in college football last year. but tebow lost to both of them. so i don't see why those games should be used as a reason of why the sports writers decided it was a good idea to give something like the heisman to a player like tim tebow. that should go to the best player in america. not the player who lost to the best teams.
hovde4 3 years ago
I remember the LSU game
Tebow scored 3 td's and no interceptions
He had a late that would of won the game
but Keestan Moore Fumbled it and LSU got the ball back....and scored 24-28
Tim Tebow benches 450-500 pounds i've heard both
that isnt bad for q QB
Oregon lost to Arizona state
and ucla..suky teams
and they only played SUKY TEAMS which makes them look good
just like hawaii who played crappy teams then they played georgia and got thier butts kiked by a desent team
btchr17 3 years ago
you don't remember the lsu game very well because he did throw an int. he thew an interception late in the game that basically lost the game for the gaytors. he also completed less than half of his passes which is pretty pitiful. i don't believe tebow benches that much. but even if he benched 10tons, that shouldn't win someone the heisman.
Oregon did NOT lose to arizona state. again you made something up. oregon did lose to ucla but only because dixon was injured. you are stupid.
hovde4 3 years ago
This is fantastic--also unusual to see something that far back in color. Greatness!
Speyrer88 4 years ago
Thanks for the compliments on the video.
Yeah, I'm not surprised my dad was ahead of the curve, with a color camera in the mid '50s. When I was a kid we always had the first remote control in the neighborhood, first VCR, portable TVs, etc.
LOL. It certainly has changed. My dad's computer dates to '99, and he still uses headphones and radios and binoculars that I remember from the '70s.
AwsiDooger 4 years ago
I note both teams are wearing dark but different colored jersies. This was common before black and white TV broadcasts caused a switch to visiting teams in white jersies, (there was a lag time before that became common). It made for an even more colorful look back then.
44032 4 years ago
thanks for posting... that's some great footage.
moe29 4 years ago
wow! Thanks for this video. I saw the Florida cloth and miami banner. The quality is poor but I can see and tell. This has to be up in Gainesville. It doesn't look like the orange bowl.
prmass1 4 years ago
Cool video, Awsi. Was Needles wearing a UF saddle cloth?
POniell 4 years ago
Hard to tell, but I think it looks like a regular saddle cloth.
Great creativity for the card stunt crew to make it a Gator saddle cloth.
I wonder when card stunts went out of style? As a kid in the late '60s I remember a few times they had cards under your seat at the Orange Bowl and we were told to hold them up. Seemed stupid to me but I guess I never saw the intended product from afar. That might have been at Orange Bowl games with the fancy halftime show, not regular season games.
AwsiDooger 4 years ago
is this ben hill griffin stadium?
crking1980 4 years ago
Yep, believe it or not, that's it.
It will always be Florida Field to me. That's what it was called when I attended Canes/Gators games in the '70s and '80s.
Let's hope the series is revived on an annual basis.
AwsiDooger 4 years ago
The animosity canes fans have for UF, I don't think that will happen. It's worse now than it was in the early 80's!
As a gator fan, I wasn't happy when they ended the series, but the way gator fans were treated at the OB in '87 (the last continous game of the series), I changed my thoughts. I went to the OB in '03 and nothing has changed. I think playing home-and-home every 4 or 5 years would be better for both teams.
srotagadirolf 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this. That's Weil Hall that you can see behind the south end zone.
jb4365 4 years ago
this is great and incredibly cool!
SFFOOL76 4 years ago
Thank you. As soon as I saw it I was confident others would appreciate it also.
I noticed it got linked on Gator forums and they commented on all the changes to the Swamp. The only thing I recognized from the games I attended in the '70s and '80s was that building behind the end zone.
AwsiDooger 4 years ago