A pair of pants hanging from the goal posts, a fire engine on the field and a two-hour free-for-all after the game.

Rulon Myers, 87, of Provo swears it all happened after the 1942 BYU-Utah football game.

Myers -- dressed in his '44 BYU freshman sweater -- had driven up to Salt Lake City with a group of friends in his parent's '29 Ford to see the game. The Cougars had never never beaten the Utes in 20 previous tries, but when the final whistle sounded that Saturday, BYU had won, 12-7.

That's when things got a little crazy.

"The students from both sides came down on the field and there was a fight that lasted two hours," Myers recalled. "They brought in a fire engine and threatened to soak us down. We told them if they did we'd cut up their hoses."

During the melee', BYU's student body president lost his pants, which were eventually thrown onto the goal posts on one end.

"Took them two hours until they got them down," Myers said.

Myers, the instructor for the BYU boxing team, was battling a group of unruly Ute fans in the middle of the field.

"I had so many fights," he said. "There were four or five guys that picked me up and took me clear to the east stands. I got so tired I said, 'Line up so I can take you on one at a time.' I picked out one guy and said, 'You look big enough, let's go for it.' I threw a left hook and that was it.'"

After things died down, Myers said he was no worse for the wear, just a couple of knots on his forehead and some bruised knuckles.

"Something like that would never happen today," he mused.

BYU and Utah didn't play again until 1946.

It's no wonder why.

-- Darnell Dickson, Daily Herald