Too many to recall, but I'd like to remind you of a couple of moments that have meant a lot to me as a young boy with his father... and something I heard later which still does.

- In a Sugar Bowl game against Penn State, with about 3 minutes left in the first half, Alabama was driving. The Tide was moving the ball with the Wishbone offense, but once inside the 20 the Penn State defense tightened up and Alabama’s coaches called for a pass. State tackle Rich Milot pressured Tide quarterback Jeff Rutledge and he rushed his throw. The receiver tipped the ball up and it was intercepted. The Nittany Lion player broke through the Alabama line and was headed for the goal line, but Ogilvie came from the other side of the field, ran him down and made an open-field tackle, preventing a touchdown.

Watching Major run on an almost 45 degree angle and still catch the Penn State player on the Bama 40 was jaw-dropping. The defense would take them out of scoring on that turnover. youtube.com

- With minutes left in the game, it was fourth and goal from the one-foot line with a national championship on the line. Penn State chose to power it in, but Alabama would have none of it. Again, Alabama surged backward through the Penn State line, and Guman was hit in the hole by Barry Krauss and Murray Legg, where he was stopped dead in his tracks. The Alabama defense had held after a thunderous collision just short of the goal line. Krauss, the man who delivered the brunt of the hit, was knocked unconscious and temporarily lost feeling in his extremities, but he would get up and run off the field under his own power.(shown at 3:36 of the clip above).

- And finally, something Ogilvie would speak of years later. He said it was not unusual for Coach Bryant to read a poem to his team. He closed a speech by reading one of those poems Bryant had used, one that the coach had printed on a card and kept in his wallet. It reads as follows:

“This is the beginning of a new day.

“God has given me this day to use as I will.

“I can waste it or use it for good.

“What I do today is very important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.

“When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving something in its place I have traded for it.

“I want it to be a gain, not loss — good, not evil.

“Success, not failure in order that I shall not forget the price I paid for it.”