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  • And the cheerleaders just danced there asses off....lol

  • Does anyone know where I can buy a copy of this game?

  • USC yesterday, today, and forever!

  • @greymoose1000 You got that right USC TROJAN POWER. When USC get their rythm back they will shake the college football world again.

  • @tracydukeplump ABSOLUTELY!

  • @mattison007 Fight ON! GOD loves the MOOSE and USC!

  • as an ND fan i remember this game. quite a performance by AD. i always have respected SC, too bed they are on probation, but they will be back.

  • 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!!!

  • Another bad day for the DOMERS!

  • Not trying to nitpick, as I love all the video highlights you have... I just wish you made versions without the music in the background. It makes it SO much better to hear the crowd noise and announcers.

  • @MrTennesseeVols,

    I sure hope the Sooners can return the favor this year ---- split NC with USC on probation!

  • For the 11 thumbs-downers: enjoy Pergatory!

  • @sckego: OUTSTANDING video and GREAT editing and applying audio. CLASSIC!!!

  • All I can say is Roll Tide, Roll!

  • Always love watching another DOMER defeat at the hands of the Trojans.

  • 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.

  • *Yes, *the *It *comes *Here *answer: *over, *don't *Why *we? *By *now, *We

    There's nothing worse than a drunk Mick (unless his name is McKay :)

  • To you 9 thumbs-downers...  POTATO FAMINE!!!

  • @lbmusictchr yes yhe famine. it always come down to that. here is your answer...the famine is over why dont we go home? why should we. by now most of us are mutts. we would be rejected in Eire.

  • @MrTennesseeVols

    U Mad?  LMAO! You got played, fool!

  • even though im a MIAMI fan I love USC's mojo man! How exciting.

  • 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.

  • Oklahoma was the best team in 1974,they only gave up 54 points in 11 games. The Sooners would have kicked both USC and Notre Dame's ass in 1974

  • @MrTennesseeVols Go place yourself back under that rock you climbed out from under and kiss your mother you inbred hick!!!!

  • @greymoose1000 Go screw yourself asswipe!

  • @MrTennesseeVols Cannot stand it can you that we stole your coach and his beautiful wife. She is much happier here in California since she is with people of her own kind; beautiful and intelligent. You have been owned by the GREYMOOSE of USC!!!

  • @MrTennesseeVols

    Wasn't the Sooners on NCAA probation and they couldn't go to a bowl or appear on TV at that time?

  • @ebf1957 Yep,they were. The National Championship in 1974 was split between USC in one poll and Oklahoma in the other

  • BEAUTIFUL!!!!

  • The horse The horse

  • i'm not a USC fan necessarily, but that's the best the "fight on" song has sounded. "rocket man" is such a come down after that.

  • This was a beautiful day. Another ND defeat to the Trojans!!!

  • I love this game! Fight On!!!

  • As a die hard SC fan took the day off skiing in Taos, NM and watched the game in a common room with people from all over (including ND). First half I was quiet and pretty down. Second half was one for the ages . If I embarrassed myself I do not care.

  • 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.

  • I think the 60's and 70's produced some of the best football games ever.

  • Fight On!!! 

  • Dudes, I was reading about A.D. in the TImes, he looks like Marlon Brando, put the pictures side by side, he couild be a lead actor, somebody has got to tell him he's missing his calling, all he needs is an agent and Hollyweird.

  • GOO SC!

    BEAT THE DOMERS! 

  • It was a beautiful thing! I was 13 years old at the time and it seems like yesterday...FIGHT ON!!!

  • @hendersona61

    Yes, I was 13 too.

    It was a great time!

    Fight On!

  • GO IRISH!!!

  • Notre Dame will come back Don't worry

  • I recall Woody Hayes was doing color commentary for ABC when some of the USC crowd began to shout at the end, "Woody, you're next!"

  • Did you read the Headline of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Sports Section the morning after? I'll never forget it: 55-24, THIS IS NO IRISH JOKE!  LOL Funny!

  • I loved the one excuse about the Irish having too thin blood in warm weather. Uhh, the temps weren't anything over low 70s that day. Just admit that you were beaten by a better team and leave it at that.

  • this game is a microcosm for the history of the respective schools' football programs

  • lmao. the glory days for the domers. Fight on!

  • @indyfan22k what's more athletic than a bunch of fat guys sitting around a table?

  • nice hold that wasnt called on that return

  • Hey losnva, whose crying now, cheaters? Bye Bye 2004 championship and Bush Heisman, losers!

  • WOW! This was the first college football game i watch as a kid... And been hooked every since...

  • were losing in halftime like crazy Mckay throws his clipboard right across WE ARE SC yelling N shouting what the f**k is happening do U guys want this game are U hungry 4 victory offense play hard play fast defense take it to them kick their ass we have 2 quarters left 2 play lets forget what happen 1st half ok their smling N laughing drinking gatorade it's the final count down lets turn this USC way gather around men we hate notre dame lets take it 2 them N win this game!!
  • Another brilliant USC English major. You must make a fortune off your poetry.

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  • @Dan4USCTroy, try saying something half way intelligent.  Perhaps then your comments won't be removed.

  • This, along with Omar Hassan's miracle comeback from a horrific wipeout at 2009 X-Games, will rank as perhaps the greatest sports comeback of all time. QB Pat Haden deserves a lot of credit, as does AD, with his incredible ability to accelerate no matter how fast he's already going.

  • i think the 2005 game was more heart wrenching then this game. overall, nd just sucks.

  • It looks like that Coach Devine would not even shake Coach McKay's hand after the game.

  • of course he didnt...he was not the coach then...ara parseghian was the coach.

  • @fmagalhaes1521 FYI, the coach at Notre Dame was Ara Parseghian for this game, Devine didn't take over until the next season.

  • Greatest Comeback ever, Fight On

  • The greatest game in the history of sports period

  • noter dame needs to back to the old jerseys(80's -90's seasons) man they are bettter tan the one they have now

  • John Mckay tore their shit up

  • lol the gay guys singing for usc

  • Is the 1972 game up on YouTube? 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.

  • PRICELESS Down to the Vintage USC SONG LEADERS

  • @TL250Rider So true!! Too bad they had only a handful of girls back then!! I think they should still add more girls to the squad today!!

  • I watched it live- and it still is great!! Fight on!

  • the usc fight song is awesome. but they should've just showed the play-by-play commentary between keith jackson and woody hayes afterwards. the following songs don't fit the beats on the field.

  • offside @ 4:10, hmm, wonder how much usc paid the refs for that one.

  • I was a UCLA fan back then. I hated 'SC. I saw this game on TV that day back in '74. I couldn't believe how fast the turnaround took place. It was unreal.  I remember Ara Parsegian was just as white as a sheet on that sideline, just could not believe what was happening. I thought about the game today, and looked here on YouTube. Sure enough, here is the video! YouTube is unreal. And, as much as I hated the Torjans back then, so were they....especially against Notre Dame that day!

  • Trojans had a lot of future NFL players on that team.. Davis, Pat Haden, Vince Evans, Ricky Bell, Mosi Tatupu, Gary Jeter, Clay Matthews..

  • i remember they used to show this game on ktla all the time

  • CHeck out that handshake at the 7:30- Ara weren't too happy giving up 55 unanswered.

  • Holding! Holding!

  • The irish suck ass! And USC kicks it.

  • @19Truth53 Fuck your mother up her three car garage asshole.

  • EAT SHIT AND DIE, California FAGGOT!

  • if ur a Notre Dame dame fan u shold be crying rite now!!!!!!!!! LMFAO

    YALL SOME SHIT !!!!!!!!!

  • 1974???

    I though that was last year's score. Or 2007.....

  • Anthony davis is old school, nowhere near 2007

  • I was joking about how Notre Dame hasn't beaten anyone significant for years. The couldn't even beat _Michigan_, fer cryin' out loud. Hell, Army would have probably beaten them this year.

  • Poor Ara. He never recovered. He must of had nightmares about the ND killer, Anthony Davis.

  • 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.

  • ironic that nd beat alabama later

  • I've seen the word ironic misused a million times but that may be the worst ever.

  • well mr helper tell me what ironic means and then tell the other million people you've meet who have misused it to o.k. then maybe write a book about and then call information and ask who cares

  • Memorable game for sure ! One that has stuck in my memory all these years - as one exciting game ! Seen on TV. Like the accompanying music here choices too.~ Seattle

  • awesome game!!

    i remember watching this game as a kid. I will be going to the Cal-Trojan game in Oct. proudly wearing my "28" Anthony Davis jersey. Fight on Trojans!!

  • how about a link to usc-ark in little rock about 73 or 74? dennis winston's hit on anthony davis during arkansas's victory. if i am not mistaking, that was the only game usc lost that year.

  • i used to imitate anthony davis's touchdown dance when i was 5

  • I think Irish coach Ara Parseghian had a psychotic episode after the game...he was never the same. lol...go trojans!

  • SC TROJANS BABY

  • BTW whatever happened to Anthony Davis? Ever make the NFL?

  • hes sitting in my showroom right now. He played for tampa bay and the rams

  • that intro was waaaaay too loooong....cut the drama and get to the highlights

  • I remember this game. It was hilarious as my old man didn't think that USC would come back.

  • Awesome clip btw!!!

  • Ahhhhh......when espn classic used to mean something and show stuff more than 5 yrs. old. Not many people know this but classic used to show more than poker games and "instant classic" basketball games that were from 2007. espn is as bad as mtv,vh1 and 80% of the other tv networks. ESPN SUCKS. Thanks for posting this clip cause God knows it will never be on espn classic anymore.

  • ESPN CLASSIC TODAY SUCKS DONKEY DICKS. I want to see stuff like this, not some shit game from 2006. I'm sick of ESPN catering to short-attention span cokeheads.

  • Amen. espn and what other channels are a joke. Thankfully there is Youtube where we can enjoy some real classic sports w/out commercials and loser announcers trying make up a catchphrase and comedy act when I just wanna watch sports. BOYCOTT ESPN

  • pipe down and stop whining old man

  • I just know how it used to be when Classic first came out, it was awesome.

    /Now where's my cane so I can whack you upside the head.

    //I kid.

    ///Cheers, TIB.

  • 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.

  • jesus did AD fumble alot look how he carries the ball. anyway hope we ND-SC is accually good this year im sick of getting my ass kicked

  • I only wish McKay had left in his first string for the last 12-13 minutes of the game to run the score up to 69-24 over those sanctimonious jerks. Army has the record of scoring 59 points against them and McKay threw away the opportunity to beat that. Ara ran it up on SC in 1966 to try and get more votes for #1 so McKay would have been well within his rights to do the same.

  • Well, if it's any consolation, this comeback is the equivalent for ND fans what Bucky Dent is to Red Sox fans. It tore their heart out!

  • USC always runs up the score. Remember that fake punt with 5 minutes to go in 2004 when USC was up big? Throughout the 80's and 90's in which USC dropped 11 straight games to the Irish, Notre Dame never ran up the score once.

  • Only a Baby would cry about running up the score when you are winning 24-0 with half the game over.

  • Gipper, what about 1966? 51-0? Ara didn't keep his first team in too long to make a point, now did he?

  • That was pretty much Notre Dame's second team the entire time anyway. Notre Dame's first string quarterback, halfback, and fullback were all injured. And still 51-0.

  • @Gipper4433 "Notre Dame routed Boston College 54–7 in a 1992 game where Fighting Irish coach Lou Holtz called a fake punt early in the third quarter, with his team already possessing an enormous 37-0 lead."

    ...too bad ND hasnt been good since though...

  • I was 11 yrs. old watching this game with my dad who was a USC alumn. At half time I said, "the Trojans have lost, the game is over".  My dad jumped off of the couch and yelled at me, "you can't say the game is over because it isn't, you just don't give up, you keep fighting!"

    From AD's opening kick off return, until the end of the game, my dad was hooting and pounding his fist on our wooden coffee table with excitement. The next day his hand was badly bruised. To this day I never give up!

  • I remember this game so very well. I was 12 years old. I couldn't decide on a favorite college team. I loved both of these teams at the time. Let's just say I have been a die hard USC Trojan fans since 1974!

  • 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"

  • my dad was at this game he was 9 years old he said

  • damn 55 points that was impressive back then

  • i once saw a game where the U. of Houston scored 100,playing third string for much of the game.this one was the greatest comeback i've ever seen.

  • Was at the game ... dead until AD scored before the half. We all sensed something when he received the kickoff, and STOOD for the entire rest of the half, pinching ourselves to see if all what was happening wasn't a dream. Apparently the varsity showed up in the second half and made the Irish look like a typical midwest team-- dull and slow ... GO SC!

  • Wasn't that slow during 1983-1995. However this is a great rivalry.

  • THIS was THE game that made a 13y/o from small town Ms. a huge USC fan-Anthony Davis and those oh so gorgeous blonde cheerleaders!! *Hit puberty that day LOL

  • I remember this game like it was yesterday..i was a usc fan and my youngest brother,(rip)was a norte dame fan..i was 14 at this time and he was 11..he was all over me,picking at me,(we call it joneing in the south,ga.)at halftime..then the miracle happened..my lil brother never joned me again when it came to usc and norte dame playing each other..

  • I was waiting in the student line for this year's USC/CAL game and I noticed a somewhat short man in all black and shades with a huge ring on his hand walk by. Unfortunately, by the time I realized it was AD he was well on his way and I couldn't get out of line!

  • It was nice to see the Cubs beat the Rockies 10-3. I thought THAT was the highlight!

  • Hi, thanks for posting this. Can also possibly put the original audio on in the future too?

    Thank you. :)

  • in an interview a few years ago, davis said that after the game, a nun walked up to him and waived a cross at him cause she thought he was the devil.

  • i had the honor of meeting this man in person, i got t shake his had!!!!. he gaeve us a speech on never giving up and workin hard, it was amazing...

  • To think AD was drafted by the NY Jets ahead of Walter Payton. Payton goes on to have a hall of fame career and AD never plays a game w/ the Jets. He signs with an CFL team.

  • I liked how Pat Hayden dropped back far negating the height of the Notre Dame defense.

  • They asked Eric Pennick,after his touchdown run,why he didn't do a A.D.dance.His responce was classic"this is Notre Dame,WE DON'T ACT LIKE HOT DOGS,HERE!!!!THANK YOU ERIC FOR HAVING SOMETHING THAT A.D &USC DON'T HAVE CLASS!!!!

  • My dad was telling me about this game over the weekend at the Coliseum. He was a student at SC at the time but was in a conference and didn't show up until right before halftime. He said after that kickoff return to start the 2nd half it was the most exciting college football game ever.

    FIGHT ON!

  • ou forget to include that the coach was john mckay and J.K. mckay was his son catching the TD passes from his best friend Pat Haden

  • 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!

  • Living in the past? USC still kiss ass in the present! How is Notre Dame doing?

  • The are 6-5 against one of the 10 weakest schedules in the country, including the Syracus loss last weekend, but not counting their loss to USC this Saturday. These are *all* Charlie Weiss players. The last two seasons he'll be 9-15 against a patsy schedule that should guarantee seven wins a year. Ty Willingham was fired after three years, with a better record his last 2 years than Weiss has had the last two. If Weiss isn't fired after this year, his fourth, can you spell R A C I S M?

  • 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.

  • They still hate AD in South Bend to this day.

  • Great USC team. Great looking cheerleaders too

  • SINGLE GREATEST INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE...

    ever. Davis owned ND on this day.

  • I have news for you...that was a TD pass, not a run. That was a lateral pass.

    But this was great indeed. Not enough bad can happen to Notre Dame, as far as I'm concerned!

  • how can a lateral be a pass?

  • This is great Notre Dame history here!

  • the man runs crazy bowl-legged.

  • FIGHT ON!

  • does anyone have any other Anthony Davis Highlights? If You Do Please Message Me, Thank You - TJ

  • I remember watching this game as a 16-year-old kid. I was rooting for ND but by the end of the game was rooting for Anthony Davis. Most spectacular thing I've ever seen on a football field. Never understood why he never did a damn thing in the pros.

  • I remember watching this game as a 16-year-old kid. I was rooting for ND but by the end of the game I was rooting for Anthony Davis. Never understood why he never did a thing in the pros.

  • I was in high school when I watched this game. Anthony Davis put on a show in the 2nd half!

  • Archie G. only won his second Heisman because the votes had to be submitted before the '74 ND v. USC game. Many voters said they would have liked to have waited, and then would have voted for AD.

  • I agree!

  • i think your right about that, how couldn't you give to Anthony Davis After What He Did VS Notre Dame! Go TROJANS!!!

  • Anthony Davis really should have won the Heisman Trophy this year. He really out did Archie Griffin. Archie deserved the first one in '74; but A.D. deserved the '75 trophy. I like the Buckeyes; but I love those Trojans!!!.

  • A.D. didn't even play in 1975. '74 was his last year. Not sure who you're talking about.

  • My bad I meant he should have won in '74. He oculd have won in '73 too but,John Cappalleti

    won it.Sorry I got my years crossed up. Thanx for the "Heads-up" guy.

    Sincerely

    Col. S. A. Chase,USA(Ret.)

  • AMAZING! USC IS THE BEST!!!!!

  • Notre Dame choking - Best game ever...

  • You got that right!

  • i wen to the usc rose bowl game and met anthony davis there

  • Like Ara said after the game, I really hate that damn horse.

  • 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.

  • hey ranger, just because u have nightmares about the sonmg ever time u go to sleep at night.

  • Why is this titled the Anthony Davis game when in the '72 game against ND Davis had TWO runbacks and six overall td's.

  • The name of this MOST ANNOYING SONG is CONQUEST...The lyrics go: "This is the only song we know.This is the only song we play"

  • Why play any other song when you're USC and you've been conquering teams for over40 years? Everyone knows that song whether you like SC or not.

  • I remember watching this game and saying 'WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON"????...This year (1974) USC had the finest group of cheerleaders EVER!!!!!!

  • seconded

  • Hi can`t somebody tellme the name of this song?

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  • Elton John Rocket Man

  • this video is great

  • I think that USC's first TD was the result of a kickoff return by Davis. What a game!!

  • maybe ND should've put "Rudy" in.