Tom Hodson and David Browndyke, Former Players, on the famous LSU v. Auburn game

Tommy Hodson: Steve Franz, LSU Sports Information.

Jim Hawthorne: Tom, you had an awful lot of thrills at LSU and we all enjoyed a lot of them along with you. But, of course, the one play that I guess will always live in the folklore of LSU is the pass that beat Auburn that you threw to Eddie Fuller. Can you recall what was going on and describe to the people what was happening about that play?

Tom Hodson: Well, that was a play that had worked for us for a couple of years and we’d had a lot of success with it. The defense really played well that game. Auburn was beating up on us, actually, on offense. And our defense was beating up on their offense and really couldn’t get much going and . . . That was a play that we’d always fallen back on and that was a play that worked for us. And I was so happy that Eddie got to catch it in the end zone because he had that foot out on the first down. And finally we got it in on fourth down. It was just a big play for us and a lot of fans were there and went crazy and all that stuff so . . . It was a big game and a big play for us.

Hawthorne: David, backing up to that game with Auburn, now. When the six points were scored, it was up to you to kick that extra point to win that ball game.

David Browndyke: It was kind of odd because I think everybody was figuring the touchdown was seven points so we’d already won the game. And by the time people had realized that you needed an extra point to make seven, it was already through, so they just continued to cheer.

-- Tom Hodson and David Browndyke, interviewed by Jim Hawthorne, 1993

The play caused such a thunderous explosion from the 79,341 in attendance that the LSU Geology department registered vibrations on a seismograph machine at the exact moment the touchdown was scored.