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Band Reputations, Controversy and Hapless Vandals: The Aftermath of ‘The Play’

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An excerpt from the book Five Laterals and a Trombone looks back at the days following one of college football’s most famous games.

This excerpt from Five Laterals and a Trombone by Tyler Bridges is reprinted with the permission of Triumph Books. For more information and to order a copy, please visit TriumphBooks.com/FiveLaterals.

On the day after the game, Joe Kapp’s home phone wouldn’t stop ringing. Word of Cal’s improbable last-second triumph had spread throughout the country the old-fashioned way—through newspaper articles, phone calls, radio news and some TV broadcasts.