This is one of my favorite memories of college football because one of my best friends played for the Rebels that year.
Click here for linkWe moved to Reform, Ala (Pickens County) when I was in the fourth grade and it didn't take long to figure out who were the best athletes around, even at that age. The name Elmore was renouned in West Alabama because of their abilities in sports. It just so happened that they were our neighbors. There were eleven of those boys and they were all very good athletes with Doug being the one to have a career in football, college and professional. As I grew up with the Elmores, there were many tag football games played with them in the open area of the housing project where they lived. There were many marble games as well. Doug had a good career in football and baseball at Ole Miss and then a short career in football with the Redskins. I think he made a tackle on Jim Brown that ended his career.
Doug was actually the QB that could have won the 1959 game with LSU as he called on in the last 5 minutes of the game to lead the Rebels. He drove it to the one yard line to be stopped by the Chinese Bandits at the goal line.
Oct. 31, 1959: LSU 7, Ole Miss 3 - Before the LSU-Alabama game two weeks ago, No. 1 LSU vs. No. 3 Ole Miss was the game of another century. Billy Cannon’s 89-yard punt return is the most legendary single moment in LSU football history, but it would have been a mere footnote had not Warren Rabb and Cannon stopped Doug Elmore on a quarterback sneak in the closing seconds.
As you watch the video, you can see the big play on Doug at the end of the game.
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