On January 1, 1954: In the Cotton Bowl, Rice halfback Dicky Moegle takes a handoff on his own five-yard line in the second quarter and appears on his way to a 95-yard touchdown run down the sideline. But suddenly Alabama fullback Tommy Lewis leaps off the bench without his helmet and tackles Moegle on the Tide 40. Lewis’ jarring tackle stuns Moegle and the crowd of 75,504. Referee Cliff Shaw awards Moegle a touchdown. It is one of three long touchdown runs by Moegle, who also scores from 79 and 34 yards. The 19-year-old junior finishes with a Cotton Bowl-record 265 yards rushing on just 11 carries in Rice’s 28-6 victory. Moegle’s 24.1-yard average is the highest average per rush in any bowl game. Lewis apologizes twice to Moegle — once while he is laying on the ground and again at halftime. “I saw him coming a long way off,” Lewis says after the game. “The nearer he got to me, the nearer I moved to the field. I don’t know what happened. I couldn’t realize that I had done it when I returned to the bench. It seemed like a dream.”