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This was the game that fueled my love for Husky Football more than any other

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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,751 Founders Club
    DawgsCanDance said:

    The 1959 team that went to the rose bowl was when I started following the DWAGS. That was a good team but no-one thought the dawgs had a chance against the big ten in the Rose Bowl. A big surprise that a one-eyed QB could lead the dawgs to the win.

    I grew up in Montlake so in 1960 I started selling the Times out in front of the stadium, and as a result saw all of the games that season... they let the kids in at halftime for free that sold the papers but by the second game of the season I had figured out that if you stood by will call as the game was beginning it was usually only a matter of a few minutes before some old guy would give you an extra ticket to go into the game.

    That team was exciting, and it was the UW Navy game that cemented my love for the Dawgs. They lost the game to Navy by one [ the only game they lost that year], but what a game. By the time the rose bowl game was played, dawg fans knew that the Dawgs had a great chance to win ~ the second consecutive Rose Bowl win and the first Dawg National championship game made me a fan for life.

    I was looking through google because unlike Pup I need it, to find the UW Oregon game at Husky Stadium where some kids fell out of a tree at the east endzone which of course Oregon fans blamed for the tie. The old Husky Stadium wasn't exactly a fortress.

    Also saw that Oregon in the early 60's were playing teams like Penn State and West Virginia. And blew the 62 Rose Bowl with a loss to Oregon State. Anyway intersectional match ups as we liked to call them were a big part of college football. Not so much any more with the play off. Back then winning your league was all that mattered. UW was 6-4 in 63 with 3 non conference losses but went to the Rose Bowl
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  • godawgst
    godawgst Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,621 Swaye's Wigwam
    This game fueled my love affair with the Dawgs as well. Had to listen to game on radio as we had lost power in Lewis County earlier in the day.

    Watching replay after Fred Small recovered the fumble in the end zone you hear the siren playing longer for that td, than the total it's played today combining all the scores the Huskies will get all game.

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