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This is what the HC use to look like before the longhorns took it over.
It covered local sports !
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I did not remember a prelim game prior to UH / UCLA. All I remember is being seated in the next to top row in the purple seating level. Could not see the scoreboards so I had to keep asking the guy seated in front of us for the score . . . . . That game was the most exciting games I have watched UH play, but I have seen many that were close to being AS exciting. BB can be a very exciting game. Hard to beat a game that has numerous lead changes and is settled on the last play of the game . . . . .
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Elvin was not the high scorer for the night. Poo Welch put up 40+ for Tyler JC against the UH freshmen. Two years later he’s the starting PG for UHi
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We look back on the 50th anniversary of the Game of the Century when UH defeated UCLA on January 20th 1968 in the Astrodome. Over the years on our show, we reminisced about the game, the atmosphere & the man behind it all, Cougars Head Coach & Naismith Hall of Famer Guy V. Lewis. You’ll hear past interviews from UH Legend Don Chaney, Houston Post & Chronicle sports writer & editor Mickey Herksowitz (who covered the game), Chronicle Cougars beat writer Joseph Duarte and Robert Jacobus, who wrote the book "Houston Cougars in the 1960’s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense & the Game of the Century”. Email Info@HoustonSportsTalk.net for comments or questions.
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Thank you Patrick and to all of you for posting. Absolutely awesome.
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That did not matter to Hayes or the Cougars. "He had something to prove,” Lorch said of Hayes. “Elvin had more pride than any 10 guys put together, and he was on a mission. He wanted people to find out who Elvin Hayes was.
“We ran down the ramp and they had a red carpet all the way out on the field. I still get goosebumps when I think about it. It kind of reminded me how the gladiators must have felt back in Roman times. It was almost like being under a microscope. It was surreal, almost out of the movies. You knew you were surrounded by people.”