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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4505505, member: 289"]
Here's another Blast from the same source. It's SU's first ever game with U of Miami, the final game of the 1960 season. This is not the original broadcast but an episode of a highlight show they did back in the day that, in this week, featured this game. The narrator, a Philadelphia broadcaster named Gene Kelly, (no relation to the dancer), tells us that Syracuse is trying to get into a bowl game. In fact this team, in the eyar after the national championship game, was so disappointed to sustain two loses that they voted not to go to a bowl that year. It was certainly a different era.

There are several shot of Ernie Davis in his prime, rushing for 130 yards on 16 carries. John Mackey, Dick Easterly, Al Beimiller and Fred Mautino are also prominently mentioned. SU debuted its new blue uniforms in this game, but rarely used them until 1967, (I know of two other games we used them before that: the Liberty Bowl, also against Miami, in 1961 and the 1/1/65 Sugar Bowl against LSU. Note also that the tune played at times in the background is "The Saltine Warrior", which is what I usually heard over SU highlight films like this when growing up, not "Down Down the Field".

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