Memory from Fall 50s---doing math homework late Sat afternoon listening to football scores on radio

[bobbieinok]

Dad always listened to football games Saturday afternoon in the fall

I can still hear the college names---Auburn...Clemson...Wake Forest...

[msongs]

1. mike walden calling usc games in the later 60's on so cal fall days (yes there is autmn in

so cal)

[Hoyt]

2. Remember that well. In my case, it was Al Ciraldo announcing for Ga. Tech.

Loved him, but geez he could drive a fan nuts.

My memory, of Ciraldo calling a big game:

There's one play left, Tech behind by 6. Ga Tech is on its own 45. Back to pass, there's a man open, he catches it, 45, 30, 20, Touchdown.

Tech just beat the number 1 team in the country, It's the greatest victory ever, students are pouring on the field, players are carrying the Coach Bobby Dodd, it's incredible, fans are cheering all over America, God has blessed this day . . . . . . . AND HE DROPS IT. Tech loses by 6 points.
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Back, then, you were lucky to have one college game a weekend. You had to listen to the radio. Nowadays, you can see just about any game on TV, but I've kind of lost interest.

[rurallib]

3. Oh boy do I have memories of college football Saturdays

My dad supplied food to the press box so he always got in free and sometimes I got to go.

At the end of the day I would be laying on the floor reading, listening to the scores and the post-game. Kind of dreaming of these giant football players as they were portrayed in the newspapers of the day.

Does the name Tait Cummings ring a bell as a play-by-play announcer?