The first forward pass was thrown 100 years ago today.

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I was thinking Jeff George or Brett Farve but they missed it by about 10 years...

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Jeff George

 

 

lol, that wuz gonna be my guess

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What's the answer?

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Bradbury Robinson

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I know who caught it.

 

Rod Smith. That guy's been around f-o-r-e-v-e-r.

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Brad Johnson..........

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Actually - I caught some of this on the radio today.

 

Apparently - it wasn't caught by anyone because the QB muffed the throw.

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Actually - I caught some of this on the radio today.

 

Apparently - it wasn't caught by anyone because the QB muffed the throw.

 

Mike Vick's Great GrandPappy threw the first forward pass?

 

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Bradbury Robinson

 

 

 

"It was a pass that would change football forever. And no one caught it.

 

The first recorded legal forward pass in American football history marks its 100th anniversary today, according to Saint Louis University archives.

 

On Sept. 5, 1906, Saint Louis was playing Carroll College at Waukesha, Wis. In a scoreless game, Saint Louis coach Eddie Cochems called for his team to execute a play called "air attack." Bradbury Robinson took the fat, rugby-style ball and attempted to throw it. The pass fell incomplete, and, under the rule in effect at the time, the other team automatically got the ball.

 

Later in the game, Robinson completed a 20-yard touchdown pass to Jack Schneider. The play stunned the fans and the Carroll players, and Saint Louis went on to win, 22-0.

 

The forward pass had been legalized under a rule approved in early 1906. Before that, only lateral or backward passes were permitted, and football had become a game of brute force, with the ballcarrier being pushed forward through the line, resulting in serious injuries, even deaths.

 

"Football was like a war -- bloody and dangerous," said Jerry Vickery, curator for the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in Springfield. "They had plays where they would slingshot players over the line and over the pile."

 

The rule permitting forward passes was promulgated by a committee of college officials who wanted to spread the field and open football's close formations, making it safer. That committee eventually became the NCAA.

 

Notre Dame legend Knute Rockne has often been credited with inventing the forward pass, but it is more correct to say he popularized it among larger football powers. In 1913, when Rockne was the Irish's senior captain, he and quarterback Gus Dorais used the forward pass to stun Army, 35-13."

 

--Detroit Free Press

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"It was a pass that would change football forever. And no one caught it.

 

The first recorded legal forward pass in American football history marks its 100th anniversary today, according to Saint Louis University archives.

 

On Sept. 5, 1906, Saint Louis was playing Carroll College at Waukesha, Wis. In a scoreless game, Saint Louis coach Eddie Cochems called for his team to execute a play called "air attack." Bradbury Robinson took the fat, rugby-style ball and attempted to throw it. The pass fell incomplete, and, under the rule in effect at the time, the other team automatically got the ball.

 

Later in the game, Robinson completed a 20-yard touchdown pass to Jack Schneider. The play stunned the fans and the Carroll players, and Saint Louis went on to win, 22-0.

 

The forward pass had been legalized under a rule approved in early 1906. Before that, only lateral or backward passes were permitted, and football had become a game of brute force, with the ballcarrier being pushed forward through the line, resulting in serious injuries, even deaths.

 

"Football was like a war -- bloody and dangerous," said Jerry Vickery, curator for the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in Springfield. "They had plays where they would slingshot players over the line and over the pile."

 

The rule permitting forward passes was promulgated by a committee of college officials who wanted to spread the field and open football's close formations, making it safer. That committee eventually became the NCAA.

 

Notre Dame legend Knute Rockne has often been credited with inventing the forward pass, but it is more correct to say he popularized it among larger football powers. In 1913, when Rockne was the Irish's senior captain, he and quarterback Gus Dorais used the forward pass to stun Army, 35-13."

 

--Detroit Free Press

 

Thanks for following up. Dan Patrick and Keith Oberman said the answer but no one really posted so I forgot about the topic I started.

 

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