November 15, 1969: More than 500,000 protesters staged "the largest peace march on Washington in American history" for the second "Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam."
The 1st was a month earlier, on October 15. In response, President Richard Nixon -- who had run the year before on a promise to end the Vietnam War -- responded by appealing on television on November 3, "to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans."
The National Mobilization Against the War, or “The Mobe,” brings 500,000 antiwar demonstrators to Washington, D.C. It is the largest such demonstration in the nation’s history, and has been topped only once, the May Day demo of May 2, 1971, which got 750,000.
None of it did any good. Nixon fully intended to keep the war going long enough to get himself re-elected in 1972.
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November 15, 1969 was a Saturday. Among the college football games played that day were these:
* Number 1 Ohio State beat Number 10 Purdue, 42-14 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus.
* Number 2 Texas beat Texas Christian University (TCU), 69-7 at Memorial Stadium in Austin.
* Number 3 Tennessee were upset by Number 18 Mississippi, 38-0 at Mississippi Memorial Stadium in Jackson.
* Number 4 Arkansas beat Southern Methodist University (SMU), 28-15 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Three weeks later, Arkansas, having risen to Number 2, lost to Number 1 Texas in "The Game of the Century," costing them the Southwest Conference title and a shot at the National Championship.
* Number 5 Penn State beat Maryland, 48-0 at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania.
* Number 6 University of Southern California (USC) beat the University of Washington, 16-7 at Husky Stadium in Seattle.
* Number 7 University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) beat Oregon, 13-10 at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon. USC and UCLA, both undefeated, played each other the next week, and USC won, to win the Pacific-Eight Conference title.
* Number 8 Missouri beat Iowa State, 40-13 at Clyde Williams Field in Ames, Iowa.
* Number 9 Notre Dame beat Georgia Tech, 38-20 at Grant Field in Atlanta.
* Number 11 Auburn beat Number 16 Georgia, 16-3 at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia.
* Number 14 Michigan beat Iowa, 51-6 at Iowa Stadium (later Kinnick Stadium) in Iowa City. The next week, they upset Number 1 Ohio State, to win the Big Ten Conference title.
Among the service academies, Number 20 Air Force lost to Number 13 Stanford, 47-24 at Stanford Stadium in the San Francisco suburb of Palo Alto, California; Army lost to the University of Pittsburgh, 15-6 at Michie Stadium in West Point, New York; and Navy lost to Syracuse, 15-0 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland.
And in New Jersey, Princeton lost to Yale, 17-14 at Palmer Stadium in Princeton; while Rutgers was supposed to play The College of the Holy Cross at Fitton Field in Worcester, Massachusetts, but the game was canceled due to a hepatitis outbreak on the Holy Cross campus. RU were unable to arrange a makeup game with a school that already had the week off in time, so they did not play.
In New Jersey high school football, the school that would one day be my Alma Mater, East Brunswick, beat New Brunswick, 42-8 at Memorial Stadium in New Brunswick.
There were 7 games in the NBA:
* The New York Knicks beat the Boston Celtics, 113-98 at the new Madison Square Garden.
* The Baltimore Bullets beat the Milwaukee Bucks, 129-120 at the Baltimore Civic Center (now the CFG Bank Arena). Kevin Loughery scored 43 points for the Bullets.
* The Detroit Pistons beat the Cincinnati Royals, 105-104 at the Cincinnati Gardens.
* The Chicago Bulls beat the San Francisco Warriors, 124-105 at the Chicago Stadium. Chet Walker scored 36.
* The San Diego Rockets beat the Atlanta Hawks, 133-118 at the San Diego Sports Arena (now the Pechanga Arena).
* And the Seattle SuperSonics beat the Philadelphia 76ers, 146-136 at the Seattle Center Coliseum. Bob Rule led all scorers on the day with 49 points.
There were 3 games in the American Basketball Association:
* The Miami Floridians beat the Pittsburgh Pipers, 135-115 at the gymnasium at Miami-Dade Junior College North in Miami. That's how ill-regarded the ABA was at the time. To be fair, from 1937 to 1952, the Fort Wayne Pistons played their home games in a high school gym, the last 3 of those in the NBA. Larry Cannon scored 35 for the Floridians.
* The Indiana Pacers beat the Kentucky Colonels, 115-111 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. Darel Carrier scored 38.
* And the New Orleans Buccaneers beat the Dallas Chaparrals, 101-98 at the Moody Coliseum in Dallas.
There was a full slate of 6 games in the NHL:
* The New York Rangers beat the Boston Bruins, 6-5 at the Boston Garden.
* The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Philadelphia Flyers, 4-2 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
* The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Los Angeles Kings, 3-1 at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh.
* The Chicago Black Hawks beat the Oakland Seals, 3-2 at the Chicago Stadium.
* The Detroit Red Wings and the Minnesota North Stars played to a tie, 2-2 at the Metropolitan Sports Center in the Minneapolis suburb of
Bloomington, Minnesota.
* And the Montreal Canadiens beat the St. Louis Blues, 3-2 at the St. Louis Arena.
And in English soccer, the North London team I would one day support, Arsenal, traveled to the Birmingham area, and lost to Wolverhampton Wanderers, 2-0 at Molineux Stadium.
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