#56 Choate Anchors SMU Defense (1978)

[PK]

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[1982Express]

There is a guy who knew how to lay on a hit...

[HixsontoLeVias]

Went to the Baylor/SMU game with a bunch of ATO brothers in 1978 down in Waco....the night before the game, on Friday, we went to some Waco areqa high school game..ran into a bunch of little kids, we told them we were SMU football players, I told them I was Putt Choate, signed a BUNCH of autographs, etc., etc..promised them our sweat bands, jerseys....the next day at the game, after a night at George's & "Too many's", we ran into these kids at the game..talk about a dejected bunch of 10 year olds when they realized who we were / were NOT...funny stuff....that was also the same night we tried to steal the baylor Bear, ended up cracking his head witha Buckhorn beer bottle....long live mike ford / ET!!

[PK]

Damn...thought you had died...welcome back.

[SoCal_Pony]

A friend and I were discussing all-time great sports moments.

Greatest college coach – John Wooden, greatest athlete – Jim Brown, worst coaching ever – Guy Lewis in NCAA finals versus NC State, worst play ever – Joe Theisman interception at end of fist half in Super Bowl versus LA Raiders. Topic went to hardest hit ever. I said I was going to bring up something really obscure. My friend said not as obscure as what he was going to say….I told him I once saw Putt Choate hit a TCU player in the Cotton Bowl so hard and so loud; I thought he might have killed the player. I mentioned the year and the specific play. My friend, an SMU alum, was also at that game said he was going say the exact same play.

This conversation occurred over 10 years after Putt Choate had left SMU, yet it still made that big an impression on the two of us.

He is arguably the greatest linebacker ever in the history of SMU.