Sooners won’t mention George Cafego – but I will -Marvin West

[JohnWardForever]

westwords Mr West is at it again with another great UT story about the Legendary George Cafego! To view, click on westwords left corner.

westwords - Knox TN Today

www.knoxtntoday.com

 

[OrangeBeachVol]

Good post. Marvin always comes up with the never heard before inside stories. He is a wealth of Vol history.

 

[Scot Harvath]

As on old fart that article makes me long for the old days when writers were journalists and could tell a story. All we get now a days is mostly garbage with very few facts and certainly no story telling.

 

[orangefloyd]

For the record Karl Kremsers kick in the 68 Orange bowl was good.

 

[UT Hill Man]

Whenever Marvin West publishes a story you should read it - he is a treasure to Vol Fans.

 

[EtowahVol]

How can I find his story or blog?

 

[GinnyLu]

westwords Mr West is at it again with another great UT story about the Legendary George Cafego! View attachment 657206

My daddy always said that George Cafego was one of the toughest players to wear the orange and white. Great read.

 

[JohnWardForever]

How can I find his story or blog?

Just click on westwords above in orange and then click on the title when you get to knoxTN

 

[JohnWardForever]

My daddy always said that George Cafego was one of the toughest players to wear the orange and white. Great read.

I've heard the same. Cafego played when Men were Men. It was REALLY a battle on the Football field.

 

[volnole]

westwords Mr West is at it again with another great UT story about the Legendary George Cafego! View attachment 657206

How do you view?

 

[hbvol1982]

“Bad News” George Cafego on blocking Sooners All-America End Waddy Young.
“I was supposed to stick him and I did. I knocked him for a somersault. I tried to kill him but he lived. They helped him off the field.”

Wyatt said that hit took a terrible toll from the Sooners.

“They lost their poise.”

It is OK if Oklahoma’s recollections of that Orange Bowl are a little bit different. Welcome, partners, to the SEC.

 

[thehardknoxlife]

As on old fart that article makes me long for the old days when writers were journalists and could tell a story. All we get now a days is mostly garbage with very few facts and certainly no story telling.

That's because of advertisement. It pays to get eye balls on content, no matter the content. That's why most headlines are just designed to grab your attention while being misleading.

 

[JohnWardForever]

How do you view?

Click on westwords in the original post.

 

[JohnWardForever]

For the record Karl Kremsers kick in the 68 Orange was good.

I watched that game, my first televised football game.

 

[VOLINVONORE]

As on old fart that article makes me long for the old days when writers were journalists and could tell a story. All we get now a days is mostly garbage with very few facts and certainly no story telling.

I still strongly believe Marvin continues to be the best sports writer in America. At my ripe old age of 85, I have never enjoyed reading any journalist as much as I do reading his stories. He is the very best.

 

[number1volfanfrom76]

I watched that game, my first televised football game.

I was there and thought it was good too!

 

[Vol4gzus]

As on old fart that article makes me long for the old days when writers were journalists and could tell a story. All we get now a days is mostly garbage with very few facts and certainly no story telling.

Mommy where's the paste? Cut n paste journalist wannabees(NOT). Just write controversial stuff with good readership numbers and VOILA...you're a journalist in your own mind.

 

[EtowahVol]

Great read. Wish Heupel would read this to the team before the game!!!!!

 

[EtowahVol]

Marvin West, Ben Byrd, Tom Siler. Help me who I've missed. Someone should publish some of the best of their columns.

 

[tn4elvis]

Whenever Marvin West publishes a story you should read it - he is a treasure to Vol Fans.

He is absolutely the most entertaining story teller of a writer ever. Great job once again Marvin. It cracks me up that one of if not the toughest Vol of all time shows up on campus at 153 lbs.

 

[ru4real-really?]

Marvin West —we been around a long time. I remember his reporting on the area high school teams in the mid fifties. He was just getting started. Cub Reporter would have been a real promotion for him back then! He was with the morning paper I think (Journal)

 

[OldandStillaVol]

I watched that game, my first televised football game.

Here is what you and I would have seen that night on TV:

https://m.facebook.com/ghostsoftheorangebowl/videos/january-1-1968-tennessee-kicker-karl-kremser-misses-a-43-yard-field-goal-attempt/664228175741458/

Kremser’s kick is so high over the low goal post, you can’t see the football in the end zone camera. How the ref behind the kicker could have determined when the ball went over goal post is beyond me. Maybe it was wide right the entire time it was in the air but that would have been a terrible miss for a very good fg kicker.

 

[Okie]

“Bad News” George Cafego on blocking Sooners All-America End Waddy Young.
“I was supposed to stick him and I did. I knocked him for a somersault. I tried to kill him but he lived. They helped him off the field.”

Wyatt said that hit took a terrible toll from the Sooners.

“They lost their poise.”

It is OK if Oklahoma’s recollections of that Orange Bowl are a little bit different. Welcome, partners, to the SEC.

I have never heard of him or the story, but it's fun to look back at the glory days when guys played football for the game instead of the money. OU's athletic department is very happy to be in the SEC because of the $$$. They are really trying to get people excited about the move, but none of the people I talk to are really that excited, mostly meh, we'll play whoever is on the schedule.

A guy who went to my church years ago was drafted out of Tulsa in the 1960's by the Denver Broncos. He told of having to work a blue collar job in the off season because the pay was so low. He said that all of the guys he played with did it for love of the game and school. He went on to be successful in the oil business after his NFL career. How times have changed.

 

[JohnWardForever]

Here is what you and I would have seen that night on TV:

https://m.facebook.com/ghostsoftheorangebowl/videos/january-1-1968-tennessee-kicker-karl-kremser-misses-a-43-yard-field-goal-attempt/664228175741458/

Kremser’s kick is so high over the low goal post, you can’t see the football in the end zone camera. How the ref behind the kicker could have determined when the ball went over goal post is beyond me. Maybe it was wide right the entire time it was in the air but that would have been a terrible miss for a very good fg kicker.

I don't know how the ref behind Kremser called it no good as soon as he kicked it? Marvin West wrote that the kick missed by maybe a foot. So no way the ref could have called it that soon. Another conspiracy!

 

[Volfan1000]

westwords Mr West is at it again with another great UT story about the Legendary George Cafego! To view, click on westwords left corner. View attachment 657206

Off topic but Mike Strange had a column today in the shopper edition of the News Sentinel about the addition of Oklahoma to the SEC and how Tennessee is 1-3 against the Sooners in football.

He referenced the 2016 game in Knoxville when Butch Jones kicked a field goal from the 1 foot line.