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Okay, you are probably wondering, what the...? Just in case you haven't seen it, Trinity college from San Antonio beat Milsap college from Jackson, MS. What was great about this game was the last play from scrimage. Fifteen laterals, yes, 15 legal laterals allowed Trinity to go 60 yards for the win. Here's the scoop...
Trinity trailed by two points with two seconds left and had the ball at its 40-yard line when the play began innocently enough with Blake Barmore's 20-yard pass to Shawn Thompson. At that point, fireworks were launched to celebrate the apparent victory by the home team as the clock read :00. Thompson, though, had told his teammates in the huddle to keep lateraling the ball, and that's what they did.
Seeing a clip of the play is the only way to understand what happened, but it's worth noting that the play lasted 62 seconds.
"I think their kids just wore out," Trinity coach Steve Mohr said.
Seldom can a team wear down an opponent on one play, but take a look at the endless play-by-play on that play: Barmore to Thompson to Riley Curry to Josh Hooten (an offensive lineman) to Michael Tomlin to Stephen Arnold (another offensive lineman) to Thompson to Brandon Maddux to Curry to Maddux to Barmore to Thompson to Curry to Tomlin to Hooten to Maddux to Curry, who scored.
"I was looking around for flags," Mohr said.
Amazingly, every lateral had gone backward and there were no blocks in the back.
In the course of the play, Trinity initially advanced to Millsaps' 42-yard line, then retreated to its 45, advanced to Millsaps' 41, went back to its 42, moved ahead to Millsaps' 29 before moving back to the 44 and then scoring from there.
Curry handled the ball four times and was tackled twice, barely getting rid of the ball before falling both times. He was not tackled on his final 44-yard burst to the end zone, with a number of exhausted Millsaps players strewn on the field.
When asked whether his team practices that play, Mohr laughed.
"Are you kidding?" he said. "We couldn't do that against air."
By the way, the game was for first place in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Trinity trailed by two points with two seconds left and had the ball at its 40-yard line when the play began innocently enough with Blake Barmore's 20-yard pass to Shawn Thompson. At that point, fireworks were launched to celebrate the apparent victory by the home team as the clock read :00. Thompson, though, had told his teammates in the huddle to keep lateraling the ball, and that's what they did.
Seeing a clip of the play is the only way to understand what happened, but it's worth noting that the play lasted 62 seconds.
"I think their kids just wore out," Trinity coach Steve Mohr said.
Seldom can a team wear down an opponent on one play, but take a look at the endless play-by-play on that play: Barmore to Thompson to Riley Curry to Josh Hooten (an offensive lineman) to Michael Tomlin to Stephen Arnold (another offensive lineman) to Thompson to Brandon Maddux to Curry to Maddux to Barmore to Thompson to Curry to Tomlin to Hooten to Maddux to Curry, who scored.
"I was looking around for flags," Mohr said.
Amazingly, every lateral had gone backward and there were no blocks in the back.
In the course of the play, Trinity initially advanced to Millsaps' 42-yard line, then retreated to its 45, advanced to Millsaps' 41, went back to its 42, moved ahead to Millsaps' 29 before moving back to the 44 and then scoring from there.
Curry handled the ball four times and was tackled twice, barely getting rid of the ball before falling both times. He was not tackled on his final 44-yard burst to the end zone, with a number of exhausted Millsaps players strewn on the field.
When asked whether his team practices that play, Mohr laughed.
"Are you kidding?" he said. "We couldn't do that against air."
By the way, the game was for first place in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.