Folks who care about Slippery Rock fb

[outhereincali]

Back in the Darrell Royal days a guy named Cactus Pryor did play by play at Memorial Stadium. He used to give scores and he started mentioning the score in the Slippery Rock game and it caught on.

Those people loved the hype coming from a school that was a national power at the time.

In the spirit of fb threads about other schools let's talk about SR. I'm sure Freeper, bring back royal, and old horn remember those days.

And they're still playing fb

 

[lbaumer]

I remember! Cactus Pryor was great!

 

[LonghornMM]

Cactus Pryor was a hoot!

 

[oldhorn2]

oh yeah.....and when he gave the Slippery Rock score the crowd went absolutely wild. Of course in those days it was a full house every game.

 

[hillcountryhorn63697005]

Wally Pryor announcement...."Hondo Crouch, you need to pick your grandmother at the Broken Spoke. She's drunk again." (Something like that)

To the aggy Corp as Bevo passes by, "That's a cow, aggies."

Both Cactus and Wally were hoots. The world needs more of them.🤘

 

[outhereincali]

And the Rock is off to a great start this year. They took down Millersville State today

45/14

They're 3/0 and they've blown out everyone they've played.

 

[ElDiabloTejano]

no, it started when royal complained that within the ncaa Texas' vote counted the same as slippery rock's. he didn't feel they should have equal power. he was right. anyway, that's where that started. as of a few years ago, they'd still show the slippery rock score on the side screens

 

[outhereincali]

no, it started when royal complained that within the ncaa Texas' vote counted the same as slippery rock's. he didn't feel they should have equal power. he was right. anyway, that's where that started. as of a few years ago, they'd still show the slippery rock score on the side screens

They're still showing the score that's great.

 

[Jet Peddler]

Back in the Darrell Royal days a guy named Cactus Pryor did play by play at Memorial Stadium. He used to give scores and he started mentioning the score in the Slippery Rock game and it caught on.

Those people loved the hype coming from a school that was a national power at the time.

In the spirit of fb threads about other schools let's talk about SR. I'm sure Freeper, bring back royal, and old horn remember those days.

And they're still playing fb

It wasn't Cactus, it was his brother Wally Prior who was the "Voice of the Longhorns" from 1953-2002. Easy to get them confused though. They sounded quite similar.

 

[Okie70]

OU announcers did the same thing in the 50's and 60's. So if no SR score folks would ask "are they off today?"

 

[outhereincali]

OU announcers did the same thing in the 50's and 60's. So if no SR score folks would ask "are they off today?"

It started at MI back in the 50's. Then TX, ST, OK, NB, started doing it as well. But I read only MI still does it.