Self - Professor Emeritus Carnegie Mellon: Ballistically all we need are Newton's laws of motion and Newton's law of gravity to decide the question whether it was a legal play or not.
Self - Professor Emeritus Carnegie Mellon: When I finished the analysis I was astounded.
Self - Professor Emeritus Carnegie Mellon: There's still a space between the two, two players haven't collided yet.
Self - Professor Emeritus Carnegie Mellon: If you look carefully at the evidence on the film, the collision between Tatum and Fuqua occurred after the ball already started back.
Self - Professor Emeritus Carnegie Mellon: Many of the shots show the football going past Fuqua's head, going past Fuqua while it's still going down field
Self - Professor Emeritus Carnegie Mellon: I needed to learn something about how fast and how far a football would rebound.
Self - Professor Emeritus Carnegie Mellon: I did the experiments outside throwing the football against a brick wall.
Self - Narrator: The professor's hypothesis was simple.
Self - Narrator: If Bradshaw's pass hit Fuqua, who was running parallel to the line of scrimmage, the ball would have rebounded at roughly the same speed as from a stationary wall.
Self - Narrator: A higher speed would prove that the assassin, Jack Tatum, had struck the ball.
Self - Professor Emeritus Carnegie Mellon: The rebound from the brick wall was 12 feet per second, less than half of the rebound on the football field.
Self - Professor Emeritus Carnegie Mellon: A ball striking Fuqua could never reached the speed and distance that you saw on the field.
Self - Professor Emeritus Carnegie Mellon: As far as I am concerned and as far as
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Self - Professor Emeritus Carnegie Mellon: Newton is concerned, that's it.