Old MU football footage

[MUfan12]

Saw this posted on Facebook and thought I'd share. From the 1941 season, home game.

https://youtu.be/dIA7Rnxyoyg

https://www.youtube.com/v/dIA7Rnxyoyg

[BrewCity83]

Marquette Stadium!  We played our MU intramural football games on that field 1979-1982.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

The attendance could be a reason we don't have a program anymore.

[lawdog77]

The attendance could be a reason we don't have a program anymore.

Did they have sweater vests back then?

[WellsstreetWanderer]

 A friend of my father's , a Chicago judge, told me that he played football at Marquette. 
I went to the old gym where there was a board from the 30's where MU was undefeated in football beating Notre Dame among others and his name Wendt was there as well.  Seems they were a powerhouse at one time.

[muwarrior69]

Did they have sweater vests back then?

I was wondering why the column of fans near the end of the field just didn't fill in all those empty seats toward the center.

[Dr. Blackheart]

I think Dgies is in there wearing Yadi's #4.

[WhiteTrash]

Kind of looks like the Bears offense the past few years. <for the record, I'm a Bears fan>

[dgies9156]

I think Dgies is in there wearing Yadi's #4.

Or Brett Favre's

[wadesworld]

Is Ners in there running everyone over?

[warriorchick]

If you are on Facebook, and don't follow Adam Levin's "Old Milwaukee" Facebook page, I highly recommend it.

Always has a lot of good stuff, including his collection of mid-century color slides.

[HouWarrior]

In Texas, this always makes for a good trivia question:

  Q:
What two teams played in the very first Cotton Bowl game?
  A:
Marquette Golden Avalanche and TCU Christians a/k/a Horned Frogs

On January 1, 1937, TCU won, 16-6, in what would be MU's only Bowl appearance.

Big name quarterbacks, back then, included TCU's Slingin' Sammy Baugh and Marquette's Ray "Buzz" Buivid. Buivid finished third in the balloting for the Heisman Trophy while Baugh was fourth.

TCU still had the younger Davey OBrien (Heisman winner 1938) on the bench, as a backup.

see Christians vs. Catholics:

https://wiki.muscoop.com/doku.php/men_s_football/cotton_bowl_1937

A few years ago, I saw the game ball, still on display in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in Waco.

[muwarrior69]

If you are on Facebook, and don't follow Adam Levin's "Old Milwaukee" Facebook page, I highly recommend it.

Always has a lot of good stuff, including his collection of mid-century color slides.

I posted a few of my mid century color slides of campus as well.

https://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=54516.msg942649#msg942649

[Herman Cain]

Tremendous stuff . Thanks for posting.

I wish MU still had football.