After the game, coach Nibs Price defended Riegels, saying "It was an accident that might have happened to anyone."
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The character of "Lefty" Phelps in the movie Flight (1929), directed by Frank Capra, is based on Riegels and uses the incident to propel Phelps into the Marine Corps.
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