Remember 1976? The Bicentennial Year?
Gerald Ford was president, disco ruled and the Cincinnati Reds were the Big Red Machine. Thurman Munson was the American League Most Valuable Player.
And Miami football wasn’t Miami football.
Oh, they had a football team. But they were not yet the U. National championships, Heisman trophies and turnover chains were in the future.
So, when Duke went south to play Miami for the first time, on October 9, Duke wasn’t playing an 800-pound gorilla, just another struggling football program.
The Hurricanes did have some football tradition. Ted Hendricks--the Mad Stork--finished at Miami in 1968.