Most significant touchdown in SMU football history?

[spacepony]

If we are talking 1982 season - this play might have been the most critical in SMU remaining unbeaten - and no - it is not the Leach return against Tech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pL2iwLfybw

Good find and looks like ball was uncatchable if anything...

[mrydel]

If we are talking 1982 season - this play might have been the most critical in SMU remaining unbeaten - and no - it is not the Leach return against Tech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pL2iwLfybw

Good find and looks like ball was uncatchable if anything...

There was no uncatchable clause in the rule back then. Plus the defender clearly leans backward into the receiver to impede his progress. And finally, and this is the one that Arkansas fans just cannot grasp, the call was pass interference, so it was pass interference.

[PonyKai]

If we are talking 1982 season - this play might have been the most critical in SMU remaining unbeaten - and no - it is not the Leach return against Tech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pL2iwLfybw

Good find and looks like ball was uncatchable if anything...

There was no uncatchable clause in the rule back then. Plus the defender clearly leans backward into the receiver to impede his progress. And finally, and this is the one that Arkansas fans just cannot grasp, the call was pass interference, so it was pass interference.

I guess we were fortunate to win the game, just like we've been fortunate and lucky to beat Tulsa 3/5 times in the last five years.

[Stallion]

even not including that play SMU had 106 yards Total Offense in the last 6 minutes to Arkansas' 6 yards-we would have found a way. The Arkansas defender made a bad play whether he interferred or not-he NEVER EVER looks for the ball and he did throw his hip into to Jackie Wilson at the end.

[Arkpony]

I was there. SMU outplayed Arkansas in the 4th quarter and should have won. We chose to kickoff short in the last minutes. If we had kicked to the end zone as we had all game, and held them (as we did after the short KO) we would have had the ball excellent position to score a TD instead of kicking a long FG.

[guadalupe river frog]

Mustang1108: "Here is footage of the Bobby Wilson touchdown against TCU in 1935. The play starts at around 1:40"

Definitely this one! Without this TD, No national championship & the SMU legend!

Yep. The fact that it still gets mentioned over 75 years later tells you something. SMU got the Rose Bowl berth and a legit claim to the national title. While the AP poll didn't exist until the following year, all but one of the credible polls that did exist held their final votes before the two bowls. SMU and Minnesota both claim national titles based upon those polls.

SMU's subsequent loss to Stanford in the Rose Bowl and TCU's win over LSU in the Sugar Bowl (combined with TCU's #1 finish in the lone poll that bothered to vote after the two bowl games) resulted in TCU also staking a national title claim the same year, which I assume may still irk some residing 30 miles east of FW.

I guess such disputes fuel the passions that keep long standing rivalries alive. Anyway, 75 years later the Frogs finally got their Rose Bowl shot due to an unlikely twist in BCS rules and an unusually strong group of senior talent. The historical significance of this was not lost on me. While none of us are likely old enough to recall a game played in 1935, those of us who really know the history of both programs understood that this year's game helped close a large hole in TCU's football history. A touchdown scored by Bobby Wilson in 1935 has mattered to many TCU and SMU folks for more than three quarters of a century now. For SMU fans it will continue to be a major highlight in your program's long and rich history and for TCU fans it can now be just one of those big moments that colors the history of a rivalry that still matters to many of us. Let's keep those passions alive and continue filling our stadiums for this game each fall.

FYI - there was a very nice article about the 1/1/36 Rose Bowl game in this year's game program.

[03Mustang]

Good post, thanks. Looking forward to the game this fall - any chance it gets moved from Amon Carter due to the reduced seating capacity?

[guadalupe river frog]

Good post, thanks. Looking forward to the game this fall - any chance it gets moved from Amon Carter due to the reduced seating capacity?

No clue and no one with authority is talking about it. Supposedly we also have home games slated with Boise and Tech. A lot of speculation about Jerryworld and if/when/where those games will be played, but no one in a position to know has spoken and there is no concensus or consistency eminating from the rumor mill.

[CalallenStang]

SMU's subsequent loss to Stanford in the Rose Bowl and TCU's win over LSU in the Sugar Bowl (combined with TCU's #1 finish in the lone poll that bothered to vote after the two bowl games) resulted in TCU also staking a national title claim the same year, which I assume may still irk some residing 30 miles east of FW.

Just remember that we beat you guys at your place that year.

SMU's national title claim: 20
TCU's national title claim: 14
Final