Editor’s note: In one of the most exciting single plays in ISU football history, Seneca Wallace ducked and weaved through defenders to score an electric 12-yard touchdown run. The play put Wallace squarely in the Heisman discussion.

Second and 10 from the 12-yard line.

The 11th-ranked Iowa State Cyclones were in a 3-3 tie in the third quarter against the high-scoring Texas Tech Red Raiders in front of a packed house at Jack Trice, their third home game in four weeks. Sitting at 5-1 overall, a win would put the Cyclones at the top of the division and make them bowl-eligible in the month of October.

No. 15, Seneca Wallace is under center. Track practice wouldn’t prepare him for what was coming on what seemed to be an inauspicious play.

The team lined up on the left hash, headed toward the south end zone, six men on the line, two out wide right, one to the left and 5-foot-7-inch Michael Wagner in the backfield.

Wallace took the snap, hit his five-step drop and saw nothing left. A defensive end beat the left tackle, and chased Wallace to the right side of the field near the 20-yard line. Wallace was still trotting as the other defensive end broke free and barreled toward the ISU quarterback. Wallace bounced off him, but was forced back to the 32-yard line.

As the fleet-footed quarterback beat the next man around the end, he took off at a dead sprint down the right sideline, carrying the ball like the last loaf of bread. He tight-roped to the 15-yard line before shaking a tackler, then cut left leaving his white towel dangling from his back untouched.

Wallace hit the 10-yard line before he completely turned the field horizontally, running 25 yards straight to the left, where he came from. This great play could only end one way.

Wagner laid the block of a lifetime at the left hash, leaving the path clear for Wallace to coast into the left corner of the end zone. Wagner celebrated his cementing of this event with his victim laying in grass, looking up into the lights at Jack Trice, not yet knowing he would become part of an immortal highlight.