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A loss that was hard to forget

Going through some files I found this story. I didn’t realize it was written three years ago. It didn’t seem like that long.

Years run together sometimes. They don’t run together for Harry Harrison in this particular instance. A member of the Ole Miss broadcast team now, he was an All-American defensive back in the early 1970s and a central figure in one of the most talked about games in the historical Ole Miss-LSU rivalry.

The game clock at LSU in 1972 ran a little slow and didn’t expire when it should have. Harrison and his teammates estimate what should have been the final play — one that ended with LSU on the losing side of the scoreboard — took at the very least six seconds when there were only four seconds on the clock when the ball was snapped.