1954 Cotton Bowl: Dicky Maegle - Tommy Lewis Tackle Play

Rice's Dicky Maegle is tackled from the sideline by Alabama's Tommy Lewis in the 1954 Cotton Bowl in one of the most famous plays in college football history.

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• 1954
• cotton
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• Dicky
• Maegle
• Tommy
• Lewis
• Rice
• Alabama

[0cujo0]

I think Maegle's coach imitation is going to be my new ringtone...lol

[crowdaddy57]

PTI 

[colderbeer]

@football2008 I honestly think that Dolphins player took a dive. He got nicked by a guy's knee! He wasn't bumped, slammed, grabbed, hit or tackled. The media goes bonkers over (by the way, I'm a life-long Redskins fan) this Jets coach as if he ran onto the field and kicked a player in the face! Oh, and then it was just exposed that a player that same weekend in the Panthers game came off the bench and ran over and truly hit an opposing player upside the head, and he only was fined $15,000. Huh?

[football2008]

@colderbeer I agree man with you 100% lol

[larchmontmark]

@TennesseeTitans4Life -- I had that card back in the day!

I remember that when I got it, I was amazed he was still around. Not that I thought he was old or anything like that, just that I only knew him from a TV thing of great plays from the past, which included this play from that Cotton Bowl together with old-old stuff like about Red Grange. For all I knew, Moegle was just a "legend" from the past. I was thrilled he was still playing. I think he was the only guy from that show who was.

[TennesseeTitans4Life]

@larchmontmark No I went to a pawn shop a couple years ago and they were selling a shoebox full of football cards for like 2 dollars. I bought it and I found this really old card from 1958 and it was Dicky Maegle when he played for the 49ers. Those cards in that shoebox were worth about 50 dollars not 2 so it was a huge bargain.

[larchmontmark]

@TennesseeTitans4Life -- Cool.....How did that happen?

Do you "still" have it from back-in-the-day, or did you pick it up on eBay or something?

[TennesseeTitans4Life]

I have Dicky Maegle's card!

[larchmontmark]

@carlmoore19 -- Yes, I just learned that!

But it's important to know that it was "Moegle" for his entire playing career, and that's the spelling that most people know him by, and the spelling that most people would check under for things like this.

And maybe most importantly, "Moegle" is what's on all his Topps cards. :-)

[carlmoore19]

@larchmontmark It was spelled "Moegle" at the time but he later changed it so it would be spelled the way it was pronounced: "Maegle".

[mastadon31able]

Free beer and hotwings was wright.

[etowahripple]

History repeats. Tommy Lewis was backfield coach at Gadsden High (Alabama) in 1960. Playing Sidney Lanier (Montgomery) in 1960 his star running back came off the bench to tackle a Lanier back who had broken free at the 50 yard line. Automatic TD. Game ended 13-7. Only defeat for Gadsden. Cost them  the state championship. (Bulldog Connor)