Four quarterbacks and seven years ago our team brought forth from their loss that Buckeye Nation, conceived in triumphs past, and dedicated itself to the proposition that all players shall have the right to play for the title!

Now once again we are engaged in a great confrontation testing whether Buckeye Nation, so passionate and devoted, can long endure.  We are again to engage with that enemy on a great battlefield, Ohio Stadium. We will go to dedicate a portion of those grounds, as a final remembrance place for those who have struggled that Buckeye Nation will endure.  It is altogether fitting and proper to do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.  The Nation may never note what we say there, but they will never forget what has happened in the Shoe. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion­- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this Buckeye Nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and reign supreme-and that great football teams of the people of Ohio, by the people of Ohio, for the people of Ohio, shall not perish from the earth.

GO BUCKEYES BEAT m*ch*g*n!!!