🏈 (Video) Flashback to '54 Cotton Bowl: "The 12th man tackle" -- Tommy Lewis comes off the bench to tackle running back.

[TerryP]

 

[BAMAneck]

To much BAMA in him ... lol

 

[Bamabww]

I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Lewis several times over the past several years before he passed away. His condo was next door to my son's in Tuscaloosa. A very nice man who loved everything Alabama.

 

[bamachine]

Sadly, he had to play for the worst coach in Bama history.

 

[XXL TideFan]

One my all time favorite clips

 

[50+yeartidefan]

And beLieve this...he coached some in HS....and he had a player that he coached do this....Gadsden Tigers.... i was there..( I think...damn it was a long time ago)

 

['65 Cobra]

Looks like the runner would have been caught before he scored.

 

[XXL TideFan]

@50+yeartidefan, When were you at Gadsden High? I graduated in '80.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

"I guess I'm just too full of Bama." -- Tommy Lewis, explaining why he charged, bareheaded, off the bench to tackle Rices' Dick Moegle who was on his way to a 95 yard TD run in the 1954 Cotton Bowl.

 

[bamachine]

@50+yeartidefan, When were you at Gadsden High? I graduated in '80.

Finally, people I can call old farts, used to being one of the oldest on a board. I graduated from FPHS in '89. I think we still played y'all occasionally back then. No way now, since they joined Gadsden and Emma Sansom into one school.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

@bamachine
@XXL TideFan
I lived a few blocks from old Gadsden HS
Gadsden Tigers
Sis graduated from Gadsden early 60s
I was but a kid.
Went to Anniston n Shades Valley in B’Ham

 

[SnakeFan]

@50+yeartidefan, When were you at Gadsden High? I graduated in '80.

Finally, people I can call old farts, used to being one of the oldest on a board. I graduated from FPHS in '89. I think we still played y'all occasionally back then. No way now, since they joined Gadsden and Emma Sansom into one school.

Old Farts Rule...

 

[XXL TideFan]