Grey Devil
03-14-2009, 07:11 PM
Somehow my TIVO picked up and recorded a 1976 Duke-Maryland game for me the other day. I didn't watch it until after yesterday's game.
It was being broadcast by some group I'd never heard of before and they made a big deal out of the new feature they had, especially for this game called Iso-cam. Essentially all it did was put a brighter circle around the player the announcers were to talk about. However, because the camera work already had that player as a major part of the screen most of the time it really didn't add much to the game.
Most of the time I watched the game I was just gawking at the differences between the times then and now. Long hair, long sideburns (you should have seen Lefty Dreisell), short shorts. Wild disco suits by the coaches (especially Bill Foster) and male cheerleaders. The game itself has changed a lot, too. Much, much, much more physical now. Not nearly the defensive pressure then as now, and the announcers (whoever they were) weren't nearly as knowledgeable about the game.
It was played in Cameron (relatively newly named then) and it was good to see it packed and rocking for the game, although the crowd wasn't as coordinated in its cheering as now. (Though there was one guy wearing a bald Lefty "wig" right behind the Maryland bench.) Key players were Tate Armstrong, Willie Hodge, Mark Crow, George Moses, Terry Chili, and Jim Spanarkel. John Lucas and Brad Davis played for the Terps. Fans were seated right on the floor level bleachers, too, and the press had an area in the center of the bleachers all the way up to the season ticket holders.
Anyone else see this?
Grey Devil
P.S. Duke won by playing stall ball for the last four minutes or so of the game and then making their free throws. No 35-second clock in those days....
It was being broadcast by some group I'd never heard of before and they made a big deal out of the new feature they had, especially for this game called Iso-cam. Essentially all it did was put a brighter circle around the player the announcers were to talk about. However, because the camera work already had that player as a major part of the screen most of the time it really didn't add much to the game.
Most of the time I watched the game I was just gawking at the differences between the times then and now. Long hair, long sideburns (you should have seen Lefty Dreisell), short shorts. Wild disco suits by the coaches (especially Bill Foster) and male cheerleaders. The game itself has changed a lot, too. Much, much, much more physical now. Not nearly the defensive pressure then as now, and the announcers (whoever they were) weren't nearly as knowledgeable about the game.
It was played in Cameron (relatively newly named then) and it was good to see it packed and rocking for the game, although the crowd wasn't as coordinated in its cheering as now. (Though there was one guy wearing a bald Lefty "wig" right behind the Maryland bench.) Key players were Tate Armstrong, Willie Hodge, Mark Crow, George Moses, Terry Chili, and Jim Spanarkel. John Lucas and Brad Davis played for the Terps. Fans were seated right on the floor level bleachers, too, and the press had an area in the center of the bleachers all the way up to the season ticket holders.
Anyone else see this?
Grey Devil
P.S. Duke won by playing stall ball for the last four minutes or so of the game and then making their free throws. No 35-second clock in those days....