PhiI C
09-25-2005, 09:46 PM
Texas was the defending National Champion in 1970 but during the regular season there were two very close games. One was against UCLA who always usually has a good team and they were competitive against Texas. With 20 seconds on the clock and Texas was losing 17 to 13 and Texas had third and 19 at the UCLA 45 yard line. Eddie Phillips threw a pass to Cotton Speyrer at the 20. Speyrer caught the ball and ran into the end zone to win the game for Texas 20 to 17 with 12 seconds left in the game. Texas mainly wanted to get a first down and then have maybe two shots to get to the endzone but the UCLA player that was defending Speyrer went for the ball instead of Speyrer. Had he gone for Speyrer he probably could have kept him from scoring even though probably UT would have had two shots for the endzone. When he score Memorial Stadium erupted into the loudest cheer ever for a UT game at the time.
Another scare that UT had was at Waco when they played Baylor. Texas was a heavy favorite against a Baylor team that had lost several games that year. But the Bears fought hard and UT won 21 to 14. Baylor threatened and in the third quarter even had a td that was called back for a penalty. Late in the fourth quarter Baylor had first and goal from the 6 and had they scored they might have gone for two and with their personnel they would have had a good chance to make it. Baylor tried four passes but the Texas defense held on for the Texas win thus preserving the Texas win streak. But Baylor had fought so well that when the Sunday papers covered the game the next day you would have thought that Texas had lost the game.
Another scare that UT had was at Waco when they played Baylor. Texas was a heavy favorite against a Baylor team that had lost several games that year. But the Bears fought hard and UT won 21 to 14. Baylor threatened and in the third quarter even had a td that was called back for a penalty. Late in the fourth quarter Baylor had first and goal from the 6 and had they scored they might have gone for two and with their personnel they would have had a good chance to make it. Baylor tried four passes but the Texas defense held on for the Texas win thus preserving the Texas win streak. But Baylor had fought so well that when the Sunday papers covered the game the next day you would have thought that Texas had lost the game.