In several forms of football, a forward pass is the throwing of the ball in the direction in which the offensive team is trying to move, towards the defensive team's goal line.
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14 Facts About Forward pass
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The forward pass is one of the main distinguishers between gridiron football in which the play is legal and widespread, and rugby football from which the North American games evolved, in which the play is illegal.
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In gridiron football, a forward pass is usually referred to simply as a pass, and consists of a player throwing the football towards the opponent's goal line.
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The person passing the ball must be a member of the offensive team, and the recipient of the forward pass must be an eligible receiver and must touch the passed ball before any ineligible player.
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The pass begins the moment the passer's arm begins to move forward.
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NFHS rules do not allow for a passer to intentionally throw an incomplete forward pass to save loss of yardage or conserve time, except for a spike to conserve time after a hand-to-hand snap.
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Forward pass had been attempted at least 30 years before the play was actually made legal.
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Credit for the first Forward pass goes to Fairmount's Bill Davis, who completed a Forward pass to Art Solter.
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Forward pass was not officially allowed in Canadian football until 1929.
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Reiter claimed to have invented the overhead spiral Forward pass while playing professional football as a player-coach for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics of the original National Football League .
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Forward pass had officiated games involving the top Eastern powers that year.
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That year, Jesse Harper, Notre Dame head coach, showed how the Forward pass could be used by a smaller team to beat a bigger one, first utilizing it to defeat rival Army.
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In both codes of rugby the direction of the Forward pass is relative to the player making the Forward pass and not to the actual path relative to the ground.
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In some other football codes, such as association football, Australian rules football and Gaelic football, the kicked forward pass is used so ubiquitously that it is not thought of as a distinct kind of play at all.
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