Dicky Maegle was an All-American running back at Rice University. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. And he was a Pro Bowl defensive back in his first NFL season. But when Rice ...

An Alabama player not in the game came off the sideline to tackle Rice’s Dicky Maegle, who had a path to the end zone. As Rice halfback Dicky Maegle runs down the sideline on an apparent 95-yard ...

HOUSTON -- Dicky Maegle, the Rice running back tackled in the 1954 Cotton Bowl by an Alabama player who came off the bench in one of the most legendary plays in college football history, has died.

File-This Jan. 1, 1954, file photo shows Alabama fullback Timmy Lewis, right, shaking hands with Rice halfback Dicky Maegle and offers his apologies for coming off the Alabama bench and tackling ...

HOUSTON — Dicky Maegle, the Rice running back tackled in the 1954 Cotton Bowl by an Alabama player who came off the bench in one of the most legendary plays in college football history, has died. Rice ...

Fifty years later, Tommy Lewis remained afraid of being booed. Lewis is best remembered as the Alabama player who came off the sideline to tackle Rice's Dicky Maegle in the 1954 Cotton Bowl. Even ...

NEW YORK (AP) --Dicky Maegle clearly recalls everything about his trip toward the end zone in the 1954 Cotton Bowl: dashing around right end, faking out future NFL star Bart Starr, breaking free for ...

He’s in the College Football Hall of Fame, but he’s probably best known for the Cotton Bowl game in which an opposing player left the bench to take him down. By Richard Goldstein Dicky Maegle was an ...

HOUSTON (AP) – Dicky Maegle, the Rice running back tackled in the 1954 Cotton Bowl by an Alabama player who came off the bench in one of the most legendary plays in college football history, has died.