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After the game, Kizer said, "Say, that Hail Mary is the best play we've got." An account written in 1935 presented a variation on the 1922 "Hail Mary" play as follows: On the next possession, Kizer said, "Let's have another Hail Mary," and Layden scored another touchdown. Noble Kizer, the one Presbyterian player on the Notre Dame team, stopped play and said to his teammates, "Boys, let's have a Hail Mary." They all prayed, and Elmer Layden scored a touchdown. Notre Dame trailed 3–0 in the second half and had been unable to move the ball effectively. 1922 - On October 28, 1922, the term "Hail Mary play" was used by Knute Rockne's Notre Dame in a victory over Georgia Tech.4 List of passes often mistakenly referred to as a "Hail Mary".