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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4878502, member: 289"]
Passing games were more limited then but running games and the defenses facing them were far more sophisticated than anything I see today. And yet that team lead the nation in touchdown passes! (Admittedly a lower bar to clear than today.) They led in points scored, yards gained, rushing yards, TD passes, rushing defense and total defense. Their ratio of yards gained to yards surrendered is the all time beat, (451-96) and it's not even close to being close.

Kicking games were limited by the surfaces but also the fact that this was one-platoon football: teams played both ways and there were rules limiting substitutions so your kicker was the guy of the 11 guys out there with the strongest leg, kicking straight ahead. No soccer-style specialists. A lineman named Al Gerlick barely kicked a chip-shot field goal to beat Pittsburgh on the last play in 1957. Ben was in his 9th season as coach here and that was the first field goal his teams had ever made here - because it was the first one they'd ever tried. Extra points were an adventure, too, which is why Ben welcomed the 2 point conversion rule. You see a lot of games where we scored 6, 12 or 18 points back then.
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