This is the wildest football play of the year, and it decided a conference title
Yep, the ball goes right back to the player who’d fumbled it earlier.
NAIA Morningside in Iowa won the Great Plains Athletic Conference championship with a 14-13 win over Northwestern College, thanks to this ludicrous display midway through the fourth quarter.
From the box score:
MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE drive start at 08:00, MOR ball on NOR43.
2-Tyler Kavan rush for 23 yards to the NOR20, fumble forced by 3-Donavan Weldon, fumble recovered by Weldon, Weldon for 39 yards to the MOR41, fumble recovered by Kavan, Kavan for 59 yards, TOUCHDOWN, clock 07:36.
Morningside running back Kavan was stripped by Northwestern safety Weldon, who attempted to lateral while going down almost 40 yards later. The ball sought the hands of Kavan, who, after a moment of what might’ve been surprise (perhaps he was thinking his forward momentum had stopped and the play should’ve been blown dead, or perhaps he thought for a moment that he was out of the play) ...
... had hauled off trucking after the ball.
Kavan demonstrated the power of never giving up, because you never know when life will lateral your fumble right back to you with nothing but GPAC glory ahead.
