Jack Park, a leading Ohio State football historian, checks in each week during the college football season with a retrospective about the Buckeyes.
The Ohio State-Illinois game of 1943 produced a most unusual ending. With the score tied at 26 and 10 seconds remaining, the Buckeyes recovered an Illini fumble at the Illinois 23-yard line. Buckeyes quarterback Bobby McQuade fired a pass intended for halfback Ernie Parks that fell incomplete in the end zone.
Both teams immediately headed to their dressing rooms, and many of the homecoming crowd of 36,331 began leaving Ohio Stadium thinking the game had ended in a tie.