Remember When: Earle Bruce Took the Ohio State Football Team to See Easy Rider and Woody Hayes Lost His Mind

They still watch movies as a team the night before they play, but with technological advances, they no longer need to head out to a theater and can watch something in the team hotel.

In 1969, Ohio State's “movie coach” was Earle Bruce, who also happened to be in charge of coaching the interior of the defending national champion's offensive line. But we're going to focus on his duties as the movie coach and one hilarious choice he made that season. “If you could find a John Wayne movie, you were doing pretty good,” former OSU assistant Bill Conley told the Dispatch. “He liked those shoot'em-ups. Now Earle, he was a Clint, starring George C. Scott as General George Patton. But this was 1969 and Patton had not been released yet, and the team was evidently tired of seeing John Wayne movies.

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