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Originally Posted by msj2487
#33 was very hard to pick, as well as #36 for me, as I wasn't able to watch any of these guys play.
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Guys wearing #36 made a hell of a lot of tackles between 1975 and 1987! Even though Cousineau was the #1 player taken in the NFL draft, and Marek is #1 in total career tackles at tOSU, I think most Buckeye fans would agreee that you made the right call in Spiels.
Champ Henson carried the ball on the last legal snap of the 1974 game in East Lansing. Too bad there was no replay back then, he appeared to have the ball over the goal line on pictures the Lantern published a couple days after the game. The refs ruled him short, and then Sparty had some guys laying on the pile and stalling. Brian Baschnagel talked about the play on a BN radio interview a couple of weeks ago. On the next play, Basch picked up a fumble and had the ball in the end zone, which would have won the game, but the backfield wasn't set on the play. It took the refs and Big 10 commish Wayne Duke over a half hour to officially determine who won the game. tOSU was #1 at the time, and it was the team's only regular season loss in the 3-year period of 1973 to 1975. It was 13-16, and Woody didn't want the FG since there was no OT back then, and a 10-10 tie at Ann Arbor the year before had cost tOSU the NC, and Oklahoma and Alabama were also still undefeated. That game ruined my birthday that year.
Once again, msj, this is an excellent topic, and thanks for a solid effort in putting this together.
