Good well-into-the-efternoon Tom

I don't recall reading this in the account on the cited URL, only from that old movie. Knute Rockne may well have been the name of the guy who passed the ball forward and thus ruined a perfectly good rugby-like game :-) I think it was one of those germanic sounding names.

You see, after this, football ceased to be played in the game, and practically the only two players who touch the ball are the quarterback and the receiver in any one play. The rest are just there to bash into each other. Incidentally, in Rugby, you may only attack the guy with the ball, and fend off a player if you've got the ball.

Maradonna, thank God, never changed the face of footie when he handed the ball into the English net, thus cheating England out of the World Cup, "a day that will live in infamy"

Laters

Terry

>Good morning Terry;
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>I have read the same account as yours about the origin of the forward pass.
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>Ronald Reagan played in a movie as George Gipp (aka "The Gipper") ... --Pat O'Brien as Knute Rockne. I have two cousins named O’Brien who were actors – Pat and George.
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>I think Ronald Reagan’s best movie was with Bonzo the Chimp (Bed Time for Bozo)
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>http://victorian.fortunecity.com/manet/404/rg/8b.htm
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>It is obvious that bozo was a better actor than Reagan! :)
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>Tom
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>>Hi Tom
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>>I read the article, but it's a bit nebulous, e.g. doesn't state whther gridiron stems from rugby or footie. Concerning the "forward pass" (something penalised in rugby, even an accidental "knock on") I once saw an old B&W film about US college football, about some guy who was supposed to be its originator. They all wore those old leather helmets and rudimentary armour. This guy (why do I keep seeing Ronald Reagan in my mind as playing him?), a quaterback I presume, in a move reminiscent of the Rugby School lad who picked up the ball and ran with it, decided one game to throw the ball forward. Essentially, I vaguely remember, after an initial cofuffle, the pass was accepted into the game.
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>>Have I got this right or is my old memory playing tricks? :-)
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>>Terry
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