SWC75
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This was on You-Tube for years but dropped off of it and is now back, (as of 5 hours a ago):
They are color highlights of Sammy Baugh's Redskins from 1942-47. The things I loke about it, despite some rather dated attitudes, (they are the Redskins, not the Commanders: the band plays 'Dixie' and there's that halftime show):
- The fact that it's in color, (even if it's lost some pixels form the last time I saw it). We're used to vintage football films being dull-looking of identical looking teams in apparently black jerseys. But football was actually more colorful then than it is now. If the team's primary colors contrasted, they'd both be in colored jerseys. The practice of road teams wearing white occurred, I believe because people started watching on black and white TVs: previously, they'd been in the stands watching in person or listening on the radio. I've always wondered why they didn't switch back to colored jerseys for both teams when color TVs came in. This is what football looked like when your grandpa, (or great grandpa), was watching it in the stands back in the day.
- Harry Wismer's enthusiastic, if sometimes halting, commentary has a certain charm to it. Later he became the owner of the New York Titans of the AFL, writing rubber checks. But in the 40's he was the voice of the Redskins, describing Baugh's great career.
- The Skins were a great team in the late 30's and early-to-mid 40's, appearing in the NFL championship game in 1936, 1937, 1940, 1942, 1943 and 1945 and winning in 1937 and 1942. The 1942 team avenged the 0-73 disaster of 1940 on the same field. They might have won in 1945, too but Baugh threw a pass from his end zone, which hit the goal post, (which was on the goal line in those days). By the rule of the time, that was a safety, and they lost 14-15.
- At 6:40, Baugh passes to Syracuse's Les Dye, who in the 60's became our athletic director.
- I hate to admit it, but I find "Hail to the Redskins" a catchy tune. I hear it and will be humming it to myself for the rest of the day.
They are color highlights of Sammy Baugh's Redskins from 1942-47. The things I loke about it, despite some rather dated attitudes, (they are the Redskins, not the Commanders: the band plays 'Dixie' and there's that halftime show):
- The fact that it's in color, (even if it's lost some pixels form the last time I saw it). We're used to vintage football films being dull-looking of identical looking teams in apparently black jerseys. But football was actually more colorful then than it is now. If the team's primary colors contrasted, they'd both be in colored jerseys. The practice of road teams wearing white occurred, I believe because people started watching on black and white TVs: previously, they'd been in the stands watching in person or listening on the radio. I've always wondered why they didn't switch back to colored jerseys for both teams when color TVs came in. This is what football looked like when your grandpa, (or great grandpa), was watching it in the stands back in the day.
- Harry Wismer's enthusiastic, if sometimes halting, commentary has a certain charm to it. Later he became the owner of the New York Titans of the AFL, writing rubber checks. But in the 40's he was the voice of the Redskins, describing Baugh's great career.
- The Skins were a great team in the late 30's and early-to-mid 40's, appearing in the NFL championship game in 1936, 1937, 1940, 1942, 1943 and 1945 and winning in 1937 and 1942. The 1942 team avenged the 0-73 disaster of 1940 on the same field. They might have won in 1945, too but Baugh threw a pass from his end zone, which hit the goal post, (which was on the goal line in those days). By the rule of the time, that was a safety, and they lost 14-15.
- At 6:40, Baugh passes to Syracuse's Les Dye, who in the 60's became our athletic director.
- I hate to admit it, but I find "Hail to the Redskins" a catchy tune. I hear it and will be humming it to myself for the rest of the day.
