Historical FSU videos on Youtube

by Fsued on Jul 29, 2010 3:01 PM EDT

I may be the last person to have come across these, but there are some fascinating historical videos popping up on Youtube that are FSU related.

Here is a video of the 1964 FSU-UGA game in Athens.

Here is what purports to be a home video of the 1967 FSU-Florida game, but since the 1967 game was in Gainesville, I assume this is the 1966 or 1968 game.

Here is a portion of a fascinating documentary on the Marching Chiefs traveling to the Sun Bowl in 1955.

And speaking of the Chiefs, there a number of videos showing the Chiefs from the 1977 season. Here is the pre-game show from the Cincinnati game. Although there is no audio, it does give a sense of how the pre-game show has evolved.

The Chiefs videos also reminds me of a couple things: 1) in the early Bowden years, Virtually ALL of our home games were at night. Only when on TV (which was rare) did we play during the day. This was promoted back then as "Saturday Night Fever." 2) Doak really was an erector set back then ...

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Fun days back then

You could talk to the players after the game when they left the locker room. One of my wife’s friends got Larry Key to sign his name on her chest. (she had quite the chest). We even played football on the field after the game. I dropped a touchdown pass right before the groundskeeper turned the sprinklers on to run us off. A little different these days.

by MRMAGOO on Jul 29, 2010 4:40 PM EDT reply actions

Ah, the 50's were a different time. I've seen that docu before, but it's still amazing

Considering that the band had just gone official (and co-ed) like 8 years earlier, that Sun Bowl trip must have been quite the break out for the band. Manley Whitcomb really did a fantastic job growing and establishing the band, bringing much of the flair, tradition, and excellence of the Big Ten to FSU. http://marchingchiefs.fsu.edu/history-landing.html

I’ll have to ask my father about that 77 pregame show – he played Big 8 (drums) in one of those early Bobby years. Maybe we could find a video that had audio and wasn’t also sped up. Also, I think that the current director, Patrick Dunnigan, says that the halftime show has not changed dramatically since he arrived in 91, excluding the recent addition of the “tunnel” formation for the football team to run through.

The Seminole rap video of 1988, featuring Deion Sanders, is much more famous than these videos, but you can see some more of the erector set Doak before its renovations in the 90s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPSDoWI9LC4 At least I’m pretty sure that’s Doak in the background at about the 3:10 mark. It’s too bad Miami walloped that team 31-0 in the first game that year; otherwise we were undefeated…

by stevib on Jul 30, 2010 11:46 AM EDT reply actions