Marvin Stewart: LSU Photograph Collection, RG #A5000,
Louisiana State University Archives, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA.
Yes, I remember very well the punting duel between Abe Mickal and Sammy Baugh [of Texas Christian University]. I think Mickal punted fourteen times and Sammy Baugh punted thirteen times, and both of them averaged over forty-seven yards. And it raining so hard, you couldn’t see up in the stadium stands at all. As I say, the ball, the referee . . . umpire would have to hold the ball down because it would float sometimes. In the last quarter, they kicked a field goal and beat us three to two. That was a real ballgame. We were on their six-inch line and this big fullback we had named Bill Crass went wallowing in there and couldn’t even make six inches. But I know that he went over the goal line because I was laying over the goal line and he went over the top of me and, you know, they shoved him back. There was nobody looking down the lines to see if the ball went over. You had to be laying over there for them to call it. All the officials would look at one another and nobody would call anything. After a while they said, “No touchdown.”
-- Marvin Stewart, interviewed by Scott Purdy, 1993