Benjamin Lom (June 29, 1906 – July 1, 1984) was an American college football player who played for three seasons for the University of California, Berkeley Golden Bears, and was best known for his attempt to stop his own teammate Roy Riegels after Riegels ran the ball 69 yards in the wrong direction during the 1929 Rose Bowl.
In another game that season, several of Lom's passes led Cal to a 13–0 win over Saint Mary's College of California.
The play was described at the time as follows:"Down the field raced Riegels, the white lines passing beneath his feet, his mind concentrated upon outrunning the Georgia Tech team.
Once it looked as if Lom were going to make a flying tackle of his teammate, as he was within diving distance, but he evidently expected to turn Riegels around.
Highlights of the season included a 54-yard kickoff return on the opening play of a game against the University of Pennsylvania that Cal won 12–7.
He ripped off long gains with disturbing frequency and finally took the game out of the disputed class by running eighty-five vards through the entire Trojan team to a touchdown, the second for the Bears.
"[5]In 1929, Lom was selected for the All-Pacific Coast first team[1] and was selected as a third-team All-American by the Associated Press[6] and a second-team All-American by the Newspaper Editors Association and the North American Newspaper Alliance,[7][8] He was also received honorable mentions from Grantland Rice and United Press.