Forward Pass in Football: A Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

Dennis Brown broke the Big Ten single game total offense record in his first start and set the Michigan football record for career passing yards.

Ernie Zampese coached the leading pass offense in the NFL six times in seven years and has been credited with putting the "air" in Air Coryell.

Howard Reiter has been credited by some with developing the overhand spiral forward pass while playing for the Philadelphia Athletics of the original National Football League (1902).

Tony Branoff became the first sophomore selected as MVP of the Michigan football team after leading the 1953 squad in scoring, handling punting duties and throwing a 66-yard touchdown pass.

Bennie Owen introduced the forward pass to the southwestern United States as head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners football team.

Yale All-American Paul Veeder has been credited with throwing the "first forward pass in a major game".

Minnesota's Pudge Wyman scored the first kickoff return for a touchdown, the first blocked punt returned for a touchdown, and the first passing touchdown in the history of the NFL.

Pitt All-American Tom Davies threw a touchdown pass, ran 80 yards for a touchdown, returned a kickoff 90 yards and returned an interception 60 yards in the same game.

Princeton's "Whoop" Snively, known as "the best forward-passer in the East," later coached lacrosse and ice hockey at Williams College and New Hampshire.

All-American end Ed Frutig was the main pass receiver for Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon from 1938-1940.

Forward Pass in Football: A Quiz

1 If the passer drops the ball before this moment it is a ________ and therefore a loose ball.

2 In several forms of ________, a forward pass is when the ball is thrown in the direction that the offensive team is trying to move, towards the defensive team's goal line.

3 Vahe Gregorian researched the history of the play for an article in the ________ on September 4, 2006, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the first legal pass.

4 But President ________ personally intervened and demanded that the rules of the game be reformed.

5 The 1906 Iowa game was refereed by one of the top football officials in the country, ________'s Lt.

6 ________ - a very long forward pass near the end of a game.

7 The primary pass-thrower is the ________, and statistical analysis is used to determine a quarterback's success rate at passing in various situations, as well as a team's overall success at the "passing game."

8 In American and ________, a forward pass—usually called simply a pass—consists of one offensive player throwing the football towards another downfield in the direction of the opponent's end line.

9 Coach H. W. "Bill" Hargiss' "Presbies" are said to have featured the play in a 17–0 victory over Washburn University[24] and in a 107-0 destruction of ________.

10 1905 had been a bloody year on the gridiron; the ________ reported 18 players had been killed and 159 seriously injured that season.

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