HolyCoast: 15 Laterals to a Game Winning Touchdown
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Monday, October 29, 2007

15 Laterals to a Game Winning Touchdown

If you haven't seen this final play of the Trinity vs. Millsaps football game, you won't believe it (h/t HolyCoast Dad):


Here's how it was written up:
“Picture the ending of the Stanford-California game in 1982, without the band and with three times as many laterals. Trinity University used 15 laterals after a completed pass on the final play of the game for an unlikely touchdown and 28-24 victory Saturday at stunned Millsaps. Call it the “Mississippi Miracle” for the Tigers, an NCAA Division III team in San Antonio.

“Things have to go perfectly for that to work,” coach Steve Mohr told The Associated Press after the Tigers got home Sunday night from Jackson, Miss. “We couldn’t do that against air if we tried.”
The amazing thing is they pulled that off without any penalties. For those of you too young to remember the final play of the Stanford-Cal game, here you go:

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