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WML project: Wrong Way Runs

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1/1/58 Roy Riegels appears on IGAS, 29 years to the day after his famous “wrong-way run” in the Rose Bowl. He comes on the 9 minute mark.


Roy seems to have gotten over it pretty well. He wasn't an All-American but he was All-West Coast:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Riegels
Almost all "goats" were good players. Riegels didn't score a touchdown for the other team but his play set up a safety on the next play that gave them 2 points and, naturally, they won by only one point, 8-7.
 
Six years after this IGAS episode, Jim Marshall of the Minnesota Vikings did the same thing:


He got a telegram from Roy Riegels, saying "Welcome to the club!
 

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