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So who started all that throwing anyway?
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<blockquote data-quote="dmurdock" data-source="post: 319061" data-attributes="member: 381"><p>The real answer to this question is John Heisman while coaching at Tech:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">It was John Heisman who convinced the Football Rules Committee to legalize the forward pass. For thirty-six years, Heisman coached at a number of schools including Auburn, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Pennsylvania, Washington and Jefferson, and Rice. He, Alonzo Stagg, and Pop Warner, three of the greatest coaches from the turn of the century through the 1920s, constituted the “football Trinity”.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Heisman envisaged the forward pass as the salvation of a sport which had degenerated into dangerous formations and tactics such as the flying wedge and mass plays. After unsuccessfully attempting for 3 years to convince Rules Chairman Walter Camp to legalize the forward pass, Heisman enlisted the valuable support of committee members John Bell and Paul Dashiell instead. Finally, in 1906, the Rules Committee, college football’s governing body, legalized the forward pass.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://biletnikoffaward.com/fredbiletnikoff" target="_blank">http://biletnikoffaward.com/fredbiletnikoff</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dmurdock, post: 319061, member: 381"] The real answer to this question is John Heisman while coaching at Tech: [INDENT]It was John Heisman who convinced the Football Rules Committee to legalize the forward pass. For thirty-six years, Heisman coached at a number of schools including Auburn, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Pennsylvania, Washington and Jefferson, and Rice. He, Alonzo Stagg, and Pop Warner, three of the greatest coaches from the turn of the century through the 1920s, constituted the “football Trinity”. Heisman envisaged the forward pass as the salvation of a sport which had degenerated into dangerous formations and tactics such as the flying wedge and mass plays. After unsuccessfully attempting for 3 years to convince Rules Chairman Walter Camp to legalize the forward pass, Heisman enlisted the valuable support of committee members John Bell and Paul Dashiell instead. Finally, in 1906, the Rules Committee, college football’s governing body, legalized the forward pass.[/INDENT] [URL]http://biletnikoffaward.com/fredbiletnikoff[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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