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Word: passings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...variation three (lower left) he fakes to both the right half and the fullback, continues veering back and to the left and finally whirls-around to throw a pass. The last two plays everybody should remember. Quarterback Clayton faked again to both backs, clapped the ball on his hip and galloped around end on a bootleg play, provided the defensive halfbacks didn't rush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Lesson In Football | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

...they did rush, he adopted variation number five, a pass to the receivers the halfbacks had to leave in order to rush the passer. Which just goes to show why coaches get gray, and why grandstand quarterbacks are so often wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Lesson In Football | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

...play came in the last few minutes of the tightly fought contest. Both teams expected a pass when Miss Coolidge charged through the forward line to drive a neatly placed shot past the unsuspecting goalie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Ekes Out Hockey Win Over Pembroke, 2 to 1 | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

Lost Boundaries. A true story, movingly enacted, of Negroes who "pass" as whites (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...other side of the scrimmage line, Dartmouth exhibited a steady though short-gaining ground offense, and a very successful passing attack. Whenever a crucial play came up, quarterback Clayton usually relied on the passing game. Three times he pulled the optional bootleg pass and run. When the halfbacks didn't come up, he ran; when they did, he passed to the unprotected receivers they had abandoned. The really tragic part of it all was that on each occasion either all the defending backs, or none of them, came up to deal with Mr. Clayton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Defense Beat Crimson--Valpey | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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