Way out of bounds

Previous acts of overzealous participation by football personnel who were supposed to be confined to the sidelines:

In the second quarter of the 1954 Cotton Bowl, Rice back Dicky Maegle swept around right end and was racing alone down the sideline for an apparent 95-yard touchdown run when Alabama reserve Tommy Lewis, not wearing his helmet, stepped onto the field and tackled Maegle at Alabama's 38-yard line. Officials awarded Maegle the score, part of his 265-yard rushing day that stood as a Cotton Bowl record until 2008. Rice won, 28-6, and Lewis joined Maegle within weeks to talk about the incident on the "Ed Sullivan Show" in New York.

Years after the Maegle-Lewis incident, when Lewis was coaching high school football in Alabama, one of his players also leaped off the bench to tackle an opponent and, like Lewis, was immediately repentant. Lewis reportedly draped his arm around the player's shoulder sympathetically.

With barely more than two minutes remaining in the 1978 Gator Bowl and Ohio State trailing Clemson 17-15, Ohio State quarterback Art Schlichter's pass was intercepted by Charlie Bauman. After Bauman was knocked out of bounds in front of the Ohio State bench, Ohio State's 65-year-old coach, Woody Hayes, punched the startled Bauman. Clemson completed the two-point victory and Hayes, whose teams won three national titles and 13 Big Ten championships during his 28 seasons at Ohio State, was fired the next day.