Nearly 50 years ago, Boston College head coach Frank Leahy made a daring play call in the waning minutes of his team's Sugar Bowl game against Tennessee. He had installed a couple of new schemes into the playbook the day before, and he decided to send one of them to quarterback Charlie O'Rourke.
That BC even had the opportunity required a little bit of New Orleans voodoo. It tied the game at 7-7 behind Harry Connolly's touchdown scamper and had to knot it again behind a one-yard dive from Mike Holovak. The Eagles, for their part, never led the game when O'Rourke took over on his own 20-yard line following a shanked field goal by Bob Foxx.