Attendance: 72,000 Cool, Clear Notre Dame 3 7 0 7 17 Texas 0 7 0 14 21 First Quarter 8:41 ND - Scott Hempel 26-yd field goal; Drive: 16 plays, 72 yards Second Quarter 14:40 ND - Tom Gatewood 54-yd pass from Joe Theismann (Hempel kick); Drive: 1 play, 54 yards 3:22 UT - Jim Bertelsen 1-yd run (Happy Feller kick); Drive: 9 plays, 74 yards Fourth Quarter 10:05 UT - Ted Koy 3-yd run (Feller kick); Drive: 18 plays, 77 yards 6:52 ND - Jim Yoder 24-yd pass from Theismann (Hempel kick); Drive: 8 plays, 80 yards 1:08 UT - Billy Dale 1-yd run (Feller kick); Drive: 17 plays, 76 yards Team Statistics ND UT First Downs 25 25 Att-Net Yards Rush 43-189 67-331 Pass Comp-Att-Int 17-27-2 6-11-1 Net Yards Passing 231 107 Total Plays-Yards 70-410 78-438 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-1 Punts-Avg 7-36.6 4-39.8 Penalties-Yards 2-10 1-5   Individual Statistics Texas Rushing (Att./Yds/TD): Steve Worster (20-155-0); Jim Bertelsen (18-81-1); Ted Koy (12-40-1); James Street (10-31-0); Cotton Speyrer (1-13-0); Billy Dale (6-11-1). Passing (Comp./Att./Int./Yds/TD): James Street (6-11-1-107-0). Receiving (No./Yds/TD): Cotton Speyrer (4-70-0); Jim Bertelsen (1-21-0); Randy Peschel (1-16-0). Punting (No./Yds/Avg.): Clayton Monzingo (4-159-39.8). Notre Dame Rushing (Att./Yds/TD): Bill Barz (10-49-0); Joe Theismann (11-48-0); Denny Allan (7-47-0); Andy Huff (11-39-0); Jim Yoder (2-4-0); Mike Crotty (2-2-0). Passing (Comp./Att./Int./Yds/TD): Joe Theismann (17-27-2-231-2). Receiving (No./Yds/TD): Tom Gatewood (6-112-1); Denny Allan (3-43-0); Jim Yoder (1-24-1); Dewey Poskon (1-22-0); Andy Huff (2-15-0); Mike Crotty (3-8-0); Bill Barz (1-7-0). Punting (No./Yds/Avg.): Jim deArrietta (6-238-39.7); Jim Yoder (1-18-18.0).

DALLAS -- The top-ranked Longhorns carried a 19-game winning streak and 499 all-time victories into the 1970 Cotton Bowl against No. 9 Notre Dame. The Longhorns, who already had sewn up the National Championship, were seven-point favorites over an Irish program that was making its first bowl appearance in 44 years, dating back to the days of the “Four Horsemen.”

Texas was fresh off its famed 15-14 come-from-behind victory over No. 2 Arkansas, and was eager to avoid a letdown over the eighth-ranked Irish. But the early proceedings had the makings of one of the decade’s biggest upsets when Notre Dame charged out to a 10-0 lead.

The Irish took the opening kickoff 72 yards in 16 plays and settled for a 26-yard Scott Hempel field goal. On their first play of the second quarter Joe Theismann hit Tom Gatewood for a 54-yard score.

James Street and the Longhorns clawed back and trailed 10-7 at the half following a 74-yard drive that ended with Jim Bertelsen’s one-yard plunge late in the second quarter.

On its second possession of the second half, Texas put together another long drive, this time 77 yards and capped by a three-yard Ted Koy touchdown run to make the score 14-10.

Now it was Notre Dame’s turn for a long drive. Following the ensuing kickoff, Theismann started the drive at the Irish 20 and ended it with a 24-yard scoring toss to Jim Yoder with less than seven minutes to play.

What ensued is considered by some to be the most famous drive in Texas history. Starting on their own 24-yard line, the Longhorns embarked upon a 17-play march that included a pair of fourth-and-two conversions, the last coming at the Notre Dame 10 when Street completed a clutch pass to a diving Cotton Speyrer that took the Horns to the two. From there, it took three plays before Billy Dale pushed the ball over the goal line to cement UT’s second national title.

“I thought of going for the field goal and a tie fleetingly,” said UT head coach Darrell Royal of the final fourth-and-two, “but that was the conservative in me, and it didn’t come through strong enough to make me do it.”

Texas finished with 331 yards rushing, including 155 on 20 carries from the game’s Most Outstanding Player, Steve Worster.