Water made you weak, and Ammonia capsules were commonplace to break under your nose to snap you out of unconsciousness after an excellent helmet to helmet hit.
When I joined the Army at 18, I was 5’5” and 120 lbs. Eleven weeks later I was 5’8” and weighed 145. By the time I left the Army 2 and 1/2 years later, I was 5’10” and 165.
Musso had been hurt since the LSU game; the main problem was that Neb DL Rich Glover outweighed our center Jimmy Grammer by at least 70 lbs and literally threw him back into our backfield all night long.