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قراءة كتاب The Forward Pass in Football
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THE FORWARD PASS
IN FOOTBALL.
BY
ELMER BERRY, B.S., M.P.E.
Head Coach Football and Baseball, Associate Director Physical
Department, Professor Physiology and Physiology of
Exercise, International Young Men’s Christian
Association College, Springfield, Mass.
NEW YORK
A. S. BARNES AND COMPANY
1921
Copyright, 1921, by
A. S. BARNES AND COMPANY
THIS WORK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
TO
Dr. J. H. McCurdy
FORMER COACH
SPRINGFIELD Y. M. C. A. COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAMS,
THE MAN WHO EARLIEST DEVELOPED THE FORWARD PASS,
FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS A SUCCESSFUL COACH
AND
A STANDARD-BEARER OF CLEAN SPORT
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| CHAPTER I | ||
| The Coming of the Forward Pass | 1 | |
| CHAPTER II | ||
| Legal Restrictions Relative to the Forward Pass | 4 | |
| CHAPTER III | ||
| The Spiral Pass from Center | 6 | |
| CHAPTER IV | ||
| The Technique of Forward Passing | 8 | |
| CHAPTER V | ||
| Fundamentals of the Successful Forward Passing Game | 11 | |
| CHAPTER VI | ||
| Suggestive Forward Pass Formations and Plays | 19 | |
| CHAPTER VII | ||
| Defense for the Forward Pass | 23 | |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | ||
| Fig. 1. Punt Formation Pass | 19 | |
| Fig. 2. Undesirable Pass | 20 | |
| Fig. 3. Springfield-Carlisle Indian Pass | 21 | |
| Fig. 4. Spread Formation Pass | 21 | |
| Fig. 5. Open Defense | 24 |
THE FORWARD PASS IN FOOTBALL
CHAPTER I.
THE COMING OF THE FORWARD PASS.
Introduction.
The history of football has been a story of limiting the power of the offense. The defense has never been restricted, never curtailed, never hampered, always free to line up as it chose, to go when it pleased (barring offside), where it pleased and do practically as it pleased. Always the offense has been too strong, too powerful, and there has been the necessity of legal restrictions directed toward equalizing the attack and defense. This was true in general up to the “revolution” when ten yards and the forward pass came and the “new” game was created.
With the forward pass a great, new, unknown offensive weapon was provided. The history of the game since the granting of this new method of attack has again been chiefly a story of limiting the power and effectiveness of this new offense. To be sure minor changes in the rules have had other motives and objectives, but taking it by and large the statement is true to fact.
A brief review of the conditions of the “old” game will recall to players and spectators of that period the situation, and perhaps help all of us to better appreciate and understand the changes that brought the “new” game.
Mass plays predominated. Possession of the ball was vastly important. Five yards were to be made in three downs. If a man six feet tall could fall forward his full length three times he would make six yards