Brian's Song (1971)

  • (0:00)  Driving Into Training Camp / Saint Joseph's College; Father Gross Road, Rensselaer, Indiana

  • (0:03)  Coach Halas' Office / Saint Joesph's College Main Building (Note: This Building Has Since Been Torn Down But That Other Building In The Background Is The Saint Joseph's Chapel)

  • (0:09)  Training Camp Football Field / S. County Road 600 West And W. County Road 650 South, Rensselaer (Note: This Looks To Be Where The Soccer Field For Saint Joseph's College Is Today On The Southwest Side Of Campus)

  • (0:10)  Outside Of The Dorm Where Brian Piccolo And Gale Sayers Have A Talk About The Half Back Option / Still Searching For This Location

  • (0:27)  Gale Sayers Home / Warner Bros Ranch; Blondie Street, Burbank (Note: The Gas Station Seen In The Second Screen Shot Is No Longer There)

  • (0:32)  Gale Sayers Standing Next To Lake Michigan With The City In The Background / Lakefront Train Near The Shedd Aquarium / 1200 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago (Note: The View Toward The City Is Looking Northwest)

  • (0:36)  Gale Sayers And Brian Piccolo Racing In The Park / Still Searching For This Location

  • (0:50)  The Hospital / Still Searching For This Location

9 comments:

  1. the running in the park scene was at St Joseph's. the building they are leaning against was the front of the local bowling ally in Rensselaer. (the property of the college is next to the bowling ally) since then the ally flipped and the entrance is on the back side and a bank went in the front.

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    1. Hi, thanks for the info. Could you be more exact? The bowling alley is surrounded by houses. Plus there is no park near by on that side of the street. Thanks

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  2. The main building wasn't torn down, there was actually a fire in 1973 and it burnt down.

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    1. I was a student @ St Joseph ‘s when the fire occurred. There was a group of students who broke into G Halas’s office, which was located in the building that burnt to the ground the night of the fire, and saved most of Coach Halas’s memorabilia. There was talk of the students being charged with breaking and entering but that never materialized. The academic school year ended weeks early due to the fire.

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  6. About 41 minutes into the film, there's a scene which was filmed at Notre Dame Stadium during a Bears exhibition game there on August 28, 1971. I recognized the scoreboards and pressbox which were pretty much the same when I was a student there in the early 1980's.

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  7. My father and I were at that exhibition game. We watched Gale Sayers on crutches watching game, as an actor on sidelines wearing number 40 was kneeling with water being poured on him as the cameras rolled. We discussed during whole game what in the world was going on. My dad, Jack, loved Gale Sayers.

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