College Football - 1951 Indiana Hoosiers @ Notre Dame Fighting Irish

[tleatherland]

Back when Notre Dame was actually a Catholic university.

[CutterHistorical]

@tleatherland they still are, arent they?

[tleatherland]

@CutterHistorical A Vatican II "Catholic" university, but not a real Catholic university.

[deeniemarie7]

There were a lot of interesting players in this game for the Irish. Future NFL head coach John Mazur, John Lattner, Neil Worden, Ralph Guglielmi,Joe Heap,Menil Mavraides, Art Hunter,all who later played in the NFL. The massive 6-9, 290 lb. #91 Joe Katchik for the Irish was later an original 1960 New York Titan. Very nice upload.

[TheAntihero6212]

Man, this is AMAZING! Thanks for the UL!

[jayschool]

This was actually a broadcast done by something called the Theater Television Network, which didn't do traditional broadcast to homes, but to theaters, where patrons bought tickets to watch the game on the big screen. TTN began in 1951 by televising Truman's State of the Union address and followed with college basketball games that winter and this Sept. 29 game from South Bend, Indiana. TTN died two years later.

[jayschool]

Frank Reynolds on the play-by-play. Amazing.