Texas Aggies had lost their first four games of the '67 season. It was to be the year " The Aggies Are Back ".
Instead, the early conference opener to SMU was certainly a thriller but it was a loss to SMU on a last minute touchdown by the ponies. A&M had gone ahead in the final two minutes of the games on a touchdown pass from Edd Hargett to Bob Long. The final score was 20-17. The game had been moved from its usual November date to September for television on ABC.
The Aggies went on to lose to Purdue in Dallas, LSU, and Florida State by a total difference 16 points.

It was a typical October evening in Lubbock on Saturday. Jones Stadium was full. My seat was between the 20 to 30 yard line on the lower level on the west side. The lead was exchanged over 3 quarters . In the fourth , Tech took the lead with less than one minute in the game 24 -21.
Tech squibbed kick the ball and A&M started on its own 42. After 3 plays, Edd Hargett went back and lofted a pass to the right and found Bob Long among some Tech coverage. Long went up for the ball and caught it at the 15 yard line.

With 3 seconds left in the game, Hargett took the snap, look for a receiver before he tucked the ball and headed for the end zone. Larry Stegent provide a block and Hargett went into the end zone as the Aggies won 28 to 24 after the extra point was good by Charlie Riggs.

The Aggies went onto to win 5 more games and the conference championship with a season ending win over the Longhorns at Kyle Field on Thanksgiving Day at Kyle Field. Coach Stallings took the Aggies to the Cotton Bowl on January 1, 1968 and defeated his mentor and coach, Bear Bryant and the Crimson Tide 20-16.

Many players contributed to the Aggie season in '67. Coach Gene Stallings turned around what could have been a bad season into a championship year for the Texas Aggies. These players played their best every game on both sides of the ball.

It all started on this day ... October 14, 1967. This is why I admire and respect Gene Stallings and the players on that team. Several went on to play in the NFL... Edd Hargett in New Orleans, Bill Hobbs with Philadelphia , Steve O'Neal with the Jets, Larry Stegent and Rolf Krueger with St. Louis. Later Rolf Krueger joined his older Charley Krueger on the San Francisco Giants team I've left out other players but those names come to mind years later.

Was 10 years old. Listened to the game on the radio with my dad ('48). First specific memory of a great Aggie sports moment. Watched the SMU game on tv but obviously was a downer earlier that year. The Tech game put juice back in the hope of a conference championship.

I was at Jim's Frontier on the Austin Hwy in SA with the Little Redhead

I was 4 months old. No memory of this game.

I was at that Cotton Bowl game. It was real football history watching Stallings coach against (and beat) the Bear.

Dan, '65

I was 14. My dad dropped my cousin and I off at a theater to watch Waterhole #3 and when he picked us up we listened to the end of the game on the way home. I read later that the team watched that same movie the night before the game and decided it was good luck so the rest of the season, no matter what movie they watched, they called it Waterhole #4, #5, etc

On this date 20 years later, Baby Jessica fell down a narrow well on Midland, Texas. It would take rescuers some 58 hours to free the child from the well.

AFR because the Aggies are in one hell of a deep hole right now.

Haven't won a national championship since 1939

Also on this day, we plays like a** against Tennessee

milner79 said:

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On this date 20 years later, Baby Jessica fell down a narrow well on Midland, Texas. It would take rescuers some 58 hours to free the child from the well.

AFR because the Aggies are in one hell of a deep hole right now.

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You do know the first thing you have to do to get out of the hole is turn loose of the shovel.

It was my fish year. I watched it from the old horseshoe endzone.

That was in the days when the players were there because they loved A&M.

My roommate and me were at the game.

Bob Long made the play of the game just before Hargett's TD.

Great catch on 4th and 15 to keep drive alive.

The season-changer came Monday of that week when Stallings got everybody's attention by kicking All-America OL Mo Moorman off the team.

Fond memories, I knew many of those guys well, I'm class of 69

Long, Hargett, Charlie Riggs, Housley, Stegent, Hallman, Maxwell, Grady Allen, Hobbs, Adami, Buckman

Thanks, guys.

RR

I was a sophomore in 67. I remember the season very well!
Didn't Maxwell go to the Colts and Allen to the Falcons?

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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I was 4 months old. No memory of this game.

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I was 15 days old, after the Ags lost to LSU on my birthday -- 9.30.1967.

I was listening to this game on my transistor radio while attending a mid winter church retreat at Lakeview Methodist Conference Center in Palestine, TX.

Upperdeck Critic said:

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Texas Aggies had lost their first four games of the '67 season. It was to be the year " The Aggies Are Back ".
Instead, the early conference opener to SMU was certainly a thriller but it was a loss to SMU on a last minute touchdown by the ponies. A&M had gone ahead in the final two minutes of the games on a touchdown pass from Edd Hargett to Bob Long. The final score was 20-17. The game had been moved from its usual November date to September for television on ABC.
The Aggies went on to lose to Purdue in Dallas, LSU, and Florida State by a total difference 16 points.

It was a typical October evening in Lubbock on Saturday. Jones Stadium was full. My seat was between the 20 to 30 yard line on the lower level on the west side. The lead was exchanged over 3 quarters . In the fourth , Tech took the lead with less than one minute in the game 24 -21.
Tech squibbed kick the ball and A&M started on its own 42. After 3 plays, Edd Hargett went back and lofted a pass to the right and found Bob Long among some Tech coverage. Long went up for the ball and caught it at the 15 yard line.

With 3 seconds left in the game, Hargett took the snap, look for a receiver before he tucked the ball and headed for the end zone. Larry Stegent provide a block and Hargett went into the end zone as the Aggies won 28 to 24 after the extra point was good by Charlie Riggs.

The Aggies went onto to win 5 more games and the conference championship with a season ending win over the Longhorns at Kyle Field on Thanksgiving Day at Kyle Field. Coach Stallings took the Aggies to the Cotton Bowl on January 1, 1968 and defeated his mentor and coach, Bear Bryant and the Crimson Tide 20-16.

Many players contributed to the Aggie season in '67. Coach Gene Stallings turned around what could have been a bad season into a championship year for the Texas Aggies. These players played their best every game on both sides of the ball.

It all started on this day ... October 14, 1967. This is why I admire and respect Gene Stallings and the players on that team. Several went on to play in the NFL... Edd Hargett in New Orleans, Bill Hobbs with Philadelphia , Steve O'Neal with the Jets, Larry Stegent and Rolf Krueger with St. Louis. Later Rolf Krueger joined his older Charley Krueger on the San Francisco Giants team I've left out other players but those names come to mind years later.

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Love this!!!! It will happen again!!!

I was a 24 year old 1st Lieutenant in Vietnam, and I listened to both the Texas game and the Cotton Bowl on Armed Forces radio in the fire direction bunker of my field artillery battery.