1935-Tulane v Temple (Video)



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  • - [Narrator] It was the day that
  • the exiled Bolshevist Leon Trotsky was in Paris,
  • disclaiming all connection with the Leningrad plot.
  • [band music]
  • In Washington,
  • President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was threatening
  • to withhold public works funding for Louisiana...
  • as his very public feud with Senator Huey Long escalated.
  • Huey, meanwhile, seemed more concerned about
  • LSU football.
  • In Pasadena, California, on this day,
  • Alabama would win the Rose Bowl with a kid named Paul Bryant
  • leading the way.
  • And Will Rogers was writing color for the Times Picayune.
  • It was January 1st, 1935,
  • and in New Orleans, they were writing
  • the first chapter of the Sugar Bowl,
  • a courageous and ambitious civic effort
  • put together by a group of men who formed the New Orleans
  • Mid-Winter Sports Association.
  • It was Tulane against Temple playing for ownership
  • of an antique silver cup,
  • battling on a bitterly cold New Year's afternoon
  • in front of 26,000 at Tulane's then small stadium.
  • It was great college football and Pop Warner's
  • Philadelphians took advantage of two Tulane fumbles
  • and the running of "Dynamite Dave" Smukler to grab an early
  • 14 to nothing lead.
  • But the Wave would win the first Sugar Bowl.
  • Win because of the legendary "Little Monk" Simons,
  • because of Bucky Bryan, Dick Hardy, and Barney Mintz.
  • "Little Monk" was sensational in his last game as a Greenie,
  • playing with a broken shoulder.
  • Here he intercepts a Temple pass.
  • He scored Tulane's
  • first touchdown on a dramatic 65 yard kickoff return,
  • a play still remembered by those
  • who were there at this first great Sugar Bowl.
  • And it was Barney Mintz
  • who faded back from Coach Ted Cox's wing formation
  • to throw this game winning touchdown
  • 56 yards to the arms of Dick Hardy.
  • Barney also kicked Tulane's two points after.
  • From the campus of Tulane on that cold New Year's Day of
  • 1935 to the 49th Sugar Bowl Classic played
  • for an unprecedented national championship
  • inside the magnificent Louisiana Superdome.
  • This is the story of football at its very best.
  • And...
  • the 50th is coming up.

Description

This appears to be an excerpt from a longer video, perhaps a commemoration of the 50th Sugar Bowl game. Black and white newsreel footage with sound begins with a brief historical introduction and then launches into footage of the first Sugar Bowl game, played in New Orleans, Louisiana, on, January 1, 1935. In the inaugural contest, Tulane competed against Temple in 1935 "on a bitterly cold New Year's afternoon." Twenty six thousand people crowded into Tulane's then-small stadium. Claude "Little Monk" Simons played with a broken shoulder in his last game with the team. Includes 18fps footage of the game. The video concludes with an introduction to 1984's Sugar Bowl game, the 50th ever played. You may view the football program of the 1935 Sugar Bowl game at http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A23014.

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Details
Title

1935-Tulane v Temple (Video)

Creator

Tulane University

Transcriber

Velasquez, Alan

Date Created

1935

Description

This appears to be an excerpt from a longer video, perhaps a commemoration of the 50th Sugar Bowl game. Black and white newsreel footage with sound begins with a brief historical introduction and then launches into footage of the first Sugar Bowl game, played in New Orleans, Louisiana, on, January 1, 1935. In the inaugural contest, Tulane competed against Temple in 1935 "on a bitterly cold New Year's afternoon." Twenty six thousand people crowded into Tulane's then-small stadium. Claude "Little Monk" Simons played with a broken shoulder in his last game with the team. Includes 18fps footage of the game. The video concludes with an introduction to 1984's Sugar Bowl game, the 50th ever played. You may view the football program of the 1935 Sugar Bowl game at http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A23014.

Extent

2 min., 33 sec.

Form

Black and white, 16mm film

Type of Resource

moving image

Genre

Historical films

Topical Subject(s)

Universities & colleges
Football
Football players
Motion pictures
Sports
Students

Geographic Subject(s)

New Orleans (La.)

Publisher

Tulane University Digital Library

Language

eng

Identifier (Local)

1935-TulanevTemple_reformat.mp4

Rights

Physical rights are retained by the University Archives, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Contact

specialcollections@tulane.edu