Item.S.05.1974 Michigan State-Ohio State press box credential

The 1974 football game between Michigan State and Ohio State is easily one of the Spartans top ten games of all time. Now you can own a part of the history of that game.

This complete working press credential- in mint condition - was issued to the media that day - Saturday, November 9, 1974. The sellout crowd witnessed an absolutely stunning upset by Coach Denny Stolz's Spartans over Coach Woody Hayes' top-ranked Buckeyes, 16-13.

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THE GAME:

Thirty seconds felt like a lifetime, the next hour like an eternity in purgatory.

Forty years later, it all seems like yesterday to the men who were in the middle of one of the most stunning and surreal scenes in Spartan Stadium history.

Michigan State players jumped for joy as the scoreboard light bulbs flashed to zero. Moments later, Ohio State's guys were doing the same.

One referee signaled a touchdown. Another waved his arms, determining the game had ended. Woody Hayes' volatile temper boiled over as he back-handed an MSU fan who had rushed the field.

All Pat McClowry knew was he and the rest of the Spartans' defense had stopped Harold "Champ'' Henson at the goal line when it mattered most. And in the process, they had just pulled off perhaps the greatest upset in school history.

Final score: Michigan State 16, No. 1 Ohio State 13.

Or was it? It would take 46 minutes to find out for sure.

One phrase from Sports Illustrated summed up what happened that afternoon, Nov. 9, 1974, in East Lansing: "The Bizarre Bowl." MSU's victory over the top-ranked Buckeyes proved to be theater of the absurd, all right. Confirmation of the outcome wouldn't be known until then-Big Ten Commissioner Wayne Duke made his ruling after consulting with officials, who had quickly fled the stadium.

"It was chaos," former running back Levi Jackson, who scored MSU's winning touchdown, recalled this week. "I was thinking, 'I know they can't beat us. Out of all the things in the world, they can't take this from us.'"