Historic Film Footage

[Topper]

The Texas Film Archives has a few SMU related clips. This one is the oldest film of SMU football I have ever seen. 1928 football team and band went to Army. This website also has an old home movie reel of the SMU homecoming parade in 1963. A few weeks later the cameraman went to Love Field to meet the Kennedys. There is footage of the plane including a fantastic close-up of Jackie that I have never seen.

https://texasarchive.org/2015_00559

[Caballo]

Thanks for sharing the link. I also found this film of us playing in Austin in 1968. I was at that game and was 8 years old.

Great footage of Hixon passing to Levias. Also at the end of the first half we had the ball inside their 10. Levias threw a halfback pass that was incomplete in the end zone. I forgot that he was left handed.

https://texasarchive.org/2011_00323

[NavyCrimson]

Those were the best unis with big mustangs on the helmets.

[ponyboy]

That 1928 footage is incredible. Wow

[Caballo]

And check out this video footage of the SMU campus in 1953-54.

https://texasarchive.org/2012_01987

[ponyboy]

Unreal. My father started school as a freshman in 1955. So that’s the campus he saw. Didn’t realize that the area from Dallas Hall south to the boulevard was so vastly different. There was even a road in front of Dallas Hall?!

[Charleston Pony]

Unreal. My father started school as a freshman in 1955. So that’s the campus he saw. Didn’t realize that the area from Dallas Hall south to the boulevard was so vastly different. There was even a road in front of Dallas Hall?!

My understanding was that all the shrubbery in front of Dallas Hall and the "main quad" was removed after a rape that occurred in that area

[PonyTime]

And check out this video footage of the SMU campus in 1953-54.

https://texasarchive.org/2012_01987

I'm pretty certain that the Homecoming parade theme that year was "Gone with the Wind"