Question on the 1999 PSU @ Purdue game

[michnittlion]

Hi there Boilermaker fans --- hope all is well. 25 days til football season!

A quick question --- does anyone remember a play in the 1999 PSU game where a PSU player came off the sideline (!!!) to make a tackle on a Purdue WR? I swear my memory isn't pulling tricks on me --- this play did really happen, right? Does anyone have a video on it?

Thanks in advance!

 

[tigerchump]

Hi there Boilermaker fans --- hope all is well. 25 days til football season!

A quick question --- does anyone remember a play in the 1999 PSU game where a PSU player came off the sideline (!!!) to make a tackle on a Purdue WR? I swear my memory isn't pulling tricks on me --- this play did really happen, right? Does anyone have a video on it?

Thanks in advance!

Yes,that really happened.David Macklin,a PSU defensive back ran off of the sideline and tackled a Purdue WR.I don't have a video of it,but it happened.

 

[Minnesota_Boiler]

Yes,that really happened.David Macklin,a PSU defensive back ran off of the sideline and tackled a Purdue WR.I don't have a video of it,but it happened.

I was at the game. As I recall, the PSU player was supposed to be on the field but had mistakenly left. As the play developed, he came back on the field and tackled WR Chris Daniels who probably would have otherwise scored. PSU got away with only a 15 yard penalty.

 

[Grover]

Not long after that I read that it was the first time a guy was tackled by someone coming from the sidelines and not awarded a TD. Later I read that since PSU only had 10 guys on the field at the snap it was just illegal participation and not the normal Tommy Lewis situation.

I'd link it, but this was before the innerwebs for me...

 

[BoilerBulldog]

This was also the game where Randall Lane was held in the endzone when we had 4 shots from the 10 to win the game and the back judge swallowed his whistle, right? I know Penn State fans swear there's a conspiracy by the officials against them, but I tend to think everyone gets their share of questionable calls going against them.

 

[tigerchump]

This was also the game where Randall Lane was held in the endzone when we had 4 shots from the 10 to when the game and the back judge swallowed his whistle, right? I know Penn State fans swear there's a conspiracy by the officials against, but I tend to think everyone gets their share of questionable calls going against them.

You are right.JoPa got more than his share of breaks.

 

[michnittlion]

Thanks guys --- wish there was a video of this one, but alas. It happened too early, right before the explosion of YouTube.

 

[BoilerBonz]

You are right.JoPa got more than his share of breaks.

The topper of all time was the phantom PSU TD catch against us at the end of the 1st half in 1995.

 

[New Pal Boiler]

The topper of all time was the phantom PSU TD catch against us at the end of the 1st half in 1995.

Don't forget the game at happy valley in the mid-2000s where our WR caught the ball, ran out of bounds, and the idiot
Official ran up and signaled to wind the clock, when we were trying to mount a game winning drive in the last minute.

 

[ImRonBurgandy?]

Remember that 99 game well. Gut wrenching loss. I will never forget the crowd near the end where we just got the ball back and we were marching down the field. PSU was ranked #1 at the time. Crowd was intense. For all the great Brees' moments, that last throw out of bounds to Daniels wasn't one of them.

 

[PaBoiler78]

Remember that 99 game well. Gut wrenching loss. I will never forget the crowd near the end where we just got the ball back and we were marching down the field. PSU was ranked #1 at the time. Crowd was intense. For all the great Brees' moments, that last throw out of bounds to Daniels wasn't one of them.

the throw to Daniels wasn't even in the field of play, true , but it wasn't a high percentage call either. The 2000 game I remember a play where Colvin blindsided their QB and the ball went 10 yds behind the QB where Gustin picked it up on a hop and would have went all the way, but the official said the QB's hand was going forward, brutal.

 

[tigerchump]

the throw to Daniels wasn't even in the field of play, true , but it wasn't a high percentage call either. The 2000 game I remember a play where Colvin blindsided their QB and the ball went 10 yds behind the QB where Gustin picked it up on a hop and would have went all the way, but the official said the QB's hand was going forward, brutal.

Colvins last season at Purdue was 1998,and I think Gustins was also.That play you described may have been in 1998.

 

[PaBoiler78]

Colvins last season at Purdue was 1998,and I think Gustins was also.That play you described may have been in 1998.

sorry, you are correct , it was the 31-13 loss not the 2000 one where Dorsch missed a 46 yarder at the end. I was there for both.

 

[Grover]

Yep. 1998 was the "Incompleted backwards pass". McCoo (I think) got the first down on the next play, PSU ground out the clock, wore out the D and won going away. That TD being taken away really swung the momentum/game.

In the game where the ref wound the clock, didn't that crew get fired when gambling debts were uncovered and they threw, er, botched the Ill-O$U game the next weekend?

 

[tigerchump]

Yep. 1998 was the "Incompleted backwards pass". McCoo (I think) got the first down on the next play, PSU ground out the clock, wore out the D and won going away. That TD being taken away really swung the momentum/game.

In the game where the ref wound the clock, didn't that crew get fired when gambling debts were uncovered and they threw, er, botched the Ill-O$U game the next weekend?

Yes,you are right.I think the head ref in that one had filed bankruptcy earlier in his life.due to gambling debts.How did he ever become a ref?

 

[GABoilermakers]

Don't forget the game at happy valley in the mid-2000s where our WR caught the ball, ran out of bounds, and the idiot
Official ran up and signaled to wind the clock, when we were trying to mount a game winning drive in the last minute.

We got hosed a couple times in that game. Forget the scenarios but I remember it being terribly one sided at the end.

 

[Conistan]

We got hosed a couple times in that game. Forget the scenarios but I remember it being terribly one sided at the end.

I want to say there was a fumble near the goal line but I can't remember the details.

I believe the officiating crew was suspended after that game.

 

[zwick99]

Hi there Boilermaker fans --- hope all is well. 25 days til football season!

A quick question --- does anyone remember a play in the 1999 PSU game where a PSU player came off the sideline (!!!) to make a tackle on a Purdue WR? I swear my memory isn't pulling tricks on me --- this play did really happen, right? Does anyone have a video on it?

Thanks in advance!

Can we all agree that UMichigan sucks?

 

[zwick99]

Thanks guys --- wish there was a video of this one, but alas. It happened too early, right before the explosion of YouTube.

 

[HUD628]

I want to say there was a fumble near the goal line but I can't remember the details.

I believe the officiating crew was suspended after that game.

Yes Jaycen Taylor did that dangerous reach that you see so often at the goal line, and I want to say it was Sean Lee that knocked it out. That play cost us the game. The WR going out of bounds was Selwyn Lymon, and he was moving backward instead of upfield. I think that call goes the other way a lot of times, but technically it was correct.