05-22-2014, 05:48 PM
I'll chime in. I don't remember the broken leg incident, but maybe it was Dave Lewis (I think that's the right name - too lazy to look it up in my 1966 yearbook). He was the QB our freshman year, Mike. And a guy named Jack Root was the running back.
From 1965 till the Plunkett era, Stanford's football seasons were not all that memorable, but I hasten to point out that the good guys won Big Game three of our four years in school. I remember a student cheer at the beginning of the 1967 Big Game was "Seven in sixty-seven" because we'd won from '61 to '66. We were soundly beaten in that game - so at the end of the game, someone started a cheer of "One in '68!"
And despite UCB being favored in 1968, our new super-QB led Stanford to a 20-0 win.
I think Gene Washington played QB only on the freshman team, didn't he? I remember him strictly as a wide receiver. (I met up with him in Palo Alto several weeks ago. To steal a line from Billy Crystal, he still looks fabulous.)
From 1965 till the Plunkett era, Stanford's football seasons were not all that memorable, but I hasten to point out that the good guys won Big Game three of our four years in school. I remember a student cheer at the beginning of the 1967 Big Game was "Seven in sixty-seven" because we'd won from '61 to '66. We were soundly beaten in that game - so at the end of the game, someone started a cheer of "One in '68!"
And despite UCB being favored in 1968, our new super-QB led Stanford to a 20-0 win.
I think Gene Washington played QB only on the freshman team, didn't he? I remember him strictly as a wide receiver. (I met up with him in Palo Alto several weeks ago. To steal a line from Billy Crystal, he still looks fabulous.)