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There was no single school that invented it. Most of the schools who played football in the early days tried it now and then, at least as far back as an 1876 game between Harvard and Yale. The forward pass was legalized in 1906, and Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University is credited with throwing the first legal forward pass that season.
The forward pass was originated in a college football rules change in 1906. Bradbury Robinson gets the credit for throwing the first legal forward pass in a football game.
The duration of The Forward Pass is 1.3 hours.
The forward pass was legalized in pro football in 1906.
The Forward Pass was created on 1929-11-10.
An illegal forward pass happens when the QB crosses the line of scrimmage and then passes the ball forward or when a forward pass has been thrown and the player holding the ball passes forward
1906 AT CARROLL COLLEGE, WAUKESHA WISCONSIN, ST LOUIS VS CARROLL
The motto of Benedictine College is 'Forward. Always Forward.'.
A backward pass is one that does not go forward. Often, the receiver of a backward pass may then pass the ball forward. Once the ball has been passed forward, it may not be passed forward again during the same play.
Eddie Cochems is considered the "father of the forward pass". Cochems was a college level coach during is career. He coached for 7 years. Cochems had just started coaching at St. Louis University in 1906. He developed the first "passing based offense". After the conclusion of the 1905 season, at the behest of then President Teddy Roosevelt, a committee of 60 schools was formed. This rules committee changed the rules of the game, allowing the forward pass, which had been an illegal play up until that point.
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The Forward Pass - 1927 was released on: USA: 9 October 1927
forward pass and lateral pass