Amen, Tom! I’m a proud Coogfan/supporter since 1970 when I was 9! I remember seeing the front page headlines on both the Chronicle and Post back then! My dad religiously read the Sports section every morning and pass it to me once he finished. That tradition started when I was just 6.
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Yes, siir… TVS Television Networks Saturday Game of the week. TVS was the main carrier of regular season games back then and NBC would take over for the NCAA tournament. I think NBC started broadcasting regular season games in 1976!
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Was there as a 9 year old, with my best friend Jay. Sat in the cheap seats way up high. My parents couldn’t find 4 seats together, so they sat across the stadium and kept an eye on us via binoculars. Game was hard to follow from that far up, but the excitement was palpable.
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I wasn’t there, but watched on my little black and white in my apartment in Chicago. That game and the Michigan State game made me a Cougar fan for life.
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I was there. Sold programs before the game started. UH printed an incredible 10,000 programs.
One hour before tip off we had sold them all.
Sat in the nose bleed yellow section with my fiance. Loved it, Loved it, Loved it!
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Had graduated in August & was working for Brown & Root in Kuwait. Before today’s technology plus no radio or TV. On Monday following the game read in the International Herald Tribune we had won! No write up just the score. My lovely bride of soon to be 50 years married was Cougar cheerleader that year. Unforgettable moment.
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We managed to attend that game, too. Sat on row from the top in the Loge section (purple seats). The seating level above us over hung the seats we were in so we had to keep asking the people in the row below us what the score was. (Hope we did not distract them too much). Also attended the semi’s in New Mexico. The Louisville game was, IMHO, an equal in excitement, or close to it, to the dome game . . . . .
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To all you old-timers…thanks for continuing to carry the torch as long as you have. I appreciate your dedication.
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My dad was invited by a friend to the game, but I did not get to go. I was an 8th grader, I listened to the game on the radio while shooting baskets on our driveway!
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Hopefully that driveway had nice lights for you to shoot baskets! 
. #NightGame
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It was my second year at UH and although I was working for the Daily Cougars, I had to buy my own tickets to sit up in the nose bleed section lol…but it was well worth it…one of the greatest collegiate events I ever had the privy of attending in person…
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I am absolutely loving reading all of the accounts by many of you. Thank you!!
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I would like to say I was there, but I was about 5,000 miles away at the time.
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Proud to say I was in East Lansing, I was in Austin for the 20-20 NON TIE, in Auburn (only loss that year) in the Dome for Georgia and on I could go. Now can’t make the games but still have a lifetime of Cougar memories. You youngsters get ready for the resurgence. We are going to surprise some folks in the tourney this year and with Holgerson back it won’t take long until we are back on the gridiron. The sleeping giant is waking.
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Yes. I was there.
Sat in nosebleed seats in end zone on the Kirby Drive side. Had two tickets, one for me and one for my then fiancée. Although she was (and still is) a great UH basketball fan, she asked me to take her father instead. His only connection to UH was her. So I did. She and I are still connected. Our 50 wedding anniversary is this June.
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Congrats!
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I was 14 and went to the game with my parents (Dad was a Uh grad). We sat in the Loge section and I realized I had never been to a game and sat where you couldn’t hear the ball bounce. Having said that you could still cut the tension in the air with a knife. Elvin dominated Lew Alcindor who claimed he was ill or had a cut on his eye or some other excuse. I think it was George Reynolds who threw the ball straight up in the air when the game ended.
That game changed basketball forever.
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Been great hearing the stories from the old timers…that was my goal. #GoCoogs
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Here’s one that can probably only be answered by an old timer There was a prelim game that nite where the UH freshmen played Tyler JC. There was a player in that game who surpassed Elvin’s 39. Name that player
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Ollie Taylor!
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