Who is allowed to catch a forward pass in football?

Answer 1

Introduction of the Forward PassNo one really knows when exactly the first forward pass was implemented in an actual game, but most historians do agree that in 1873 represenatives from Yale, Princeton, and Rutgers met to discuss formulating rules for this new game of football. The new rules consisted of reducing the number of men on the field from fifteen to eleven. Adding a fourth down before surrenduring the ball. Tackling below the waist was allowed. And lastly, the forward pass was leagalized behind the line of scrimmage. The NFL/AFL merger did not happen until 1970. But by then the forward pass was an intracate part of the game. (Scott Menzel)

Answer 2

First Foward Pass in FootballEddie Cochem, the Saint Louis University coach, was the first to use the forward pass in 1906. It wasn't legalized in the NFL until 1933.

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• No one really knows when exactly the first forward pass was implemented in an actual game, but most historians do agree that in 1873 represenatives from Yale, Princeton, and Rutgers met to discuss formulating rules for this new game of football. The new rules consisted of reducing the number of men on the field from fifteen to eleven. Adding a fourth down before surrenduring the ball. Tackling below the waist was allowed. And lastly, the forward pass was legalized behind the line of scrimmage. The NFL/AFL merger did not happen until 1970. But by then the forward pass was an intricate part of the game.

Answer 3

Most passes in football, with the exception of sideways ones (called laterals), are thrown straight ahead, forward, albeit at an angle. Most, if not all,of the ones that catch the passes are wide receivers, though the defensive players can catch it too instead, which is called an interception.

Answer 4

First coach of famous football team of Notre Dame was playing football on a beach of what is now the famous amusement park, Cedar Point. When the idea struck him to not just simply pass the pig skin, but to throw it. Thus the forward pass was born.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

John Heisman who convinced the Football Rules Committee to legalize the forward pass. He coached at several schools over a thirty-six year period.

Answer 7

1906 AT CARROLL COLLEGE, WAUKESHA Wisconsin, ST LOUIS VS CARROLL

Answer 8

The forward pass was legalized in pro football in 1906.