Camp Randall on the play on the qb (VanderKiln sp?) that they flagged that pretty much gave the game to wisky on a tipped pass in the final minute and a half of that game. What an incredible effort Bobby Bell made on that play. There is no doubt that it perhaps was the most controversial play the Gophers were involved in during my life time. Unfortunately, it went against the Gophers. But, Bell's effort on that play was simply "the BEST..." It gave wisky the trip to the Jan. 1963 Rosebowl rather than the Gophers the trip back there for a 3rd year in a row. But, I will never forget. Murray got about 25 or 30 yards in penalties on that play, or maybe it just seemed that way. It was so long ago. Finally, in the final seconds of the game, the refs did some "make up" pass interference calls and the Gophers did move the ball...but...the fickle finger of fate was not on the side of the Gophers in the CAMP on that day.
In addition to their qb, they had Pat Richter catching passes back then. He, of course was one of the KEY figures in the revival of badger football as their AD...the guy who brought Alvarez to madtown. He also made the BOLD move to stop the bleeding in their athletic department by cutting baseball and a few other non-revenue sports there so that they could focus on making football their flag-ship sport and chief revenue producer to salvage all the rest of their sports programs...start fixing up the ancient Camp and putting enough resources into football to really make a difference.
Not only was Richter a great end...he had great instincts about what to do to put the resources where they needed to be when he took over as the ad. He was NOT a "mac" level ad. He KNEW what he had to do and he did it. Donna Shelayla (sp?) was the "prexy" or as they call the head of UW Madison...the Chancellor who was Richter's partner in putting football back on the map at the Camp.
