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[quote author=dabigv link=topic=11919.msg115404#msg115404 date=1427333848]
Man how come none of you guys just took him out at the 3!

I don't know if this (still) is a rule, but in a book I had as a kid about famous strange plays in football, there was an example of a player jumping off the bench in the middle of a play, running onto the field, and tackling an opposing ball carrier. The ball carrier was awarded a touchdown.
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My memory tells me (a demonstrably unreliable source) that the play you described involved a Texas A&M player leaving the bench to tackle a runner who had broken clear and was headed for a touchdown.  It is where they get their "Twelfth Man" ritual and tradition.  Could google it, but don't want to erode my confidence in my memory any further.  :-[


*Sure enough.  I did google it and the tradition of the Twelfth Man is nothing of the sort that I described.  So now I am curious to find the play in question.  I am certain that I saw a video replay of that amazing mistake.  If it wasn't Texas A&M, does anyone know who it was?

**Okay.  I am demonstrating to myself the benefits of checking google before I say the stuff I say.  It was the 1954 Cotton Bowl between Rice and Alabama.  Tommy Lewis of Alabama (those cheating dogs) came off the bench to make a tackle.  Rice was awarded a touchdown by the officials and Rice went on to win 28-6.  If anyone is even remotely interested, the story is at this link:
       
http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college...y-dies.ece

[CornFed]

[quote author=dabigv link=topic=11919.msg115404#msg115404 date=1427333848]
Man how come none of you guys just took him out at the 3!

I don't know if this (still) is a rule, but in a book I had as a kid about famous strange plays in football, there was an example of a player jumping off the bench in the middle of a play, running onto the field, and tackling an opposing ball carrier. The ball carrier was awarded a touchdown.
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My memory tells me (a demonstrably unreliable source) that the play you described involved a Texas A&M player leaving the bench to tackle a runner who had broken clear and was headed for a touchdown.  It is where they get their "Twelfth Man" ritual and tradition.  Could google it, but don't want to erode my confidence in my memory any further.  :-[


*Sure enough.  I did google it and the tradition of the Twelfth Man is nothing of the sort that I described.  So now I am curious to find the play in question.  I am certain that I saw a video replay of that amazing mistake.  If it wasn't Texas A&M, does anyone know who it was?

**Okay.  I am demonstrating to myself the benefits of checking google before I say the stuff I say.  It was the 1954 Cotton Bowl between Rice and Alabama.  Tommy Lewis of Alabama (those cheating dogs) came off the bench to make a tackle.  Rice was awarded a touchdown by the officials and Rice went on to win 28-6.  If anyone is even remotely interested, the story is at this link:
       
http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college...y-dies.ece