The actual first "documented" forward pass took place in the 1895 UGA UNC game, before it was legal. The ref let the play stand because he didn't see the throw, proof refereeing has not improved in over a hundred years

Teddy Roosevelt was the manliest man to ever man in all of mankind

0:13 "Imagine football without passing. For some fans that might not be too hard" **shows Mark Sanchez** **[Play the rap battle burn gif]**

Next time someone tries to tell you how much tougher rugby is than football, just remember that football was so dangerous that Teddy Roosevelt felt the need to intervene.

As a Wisconsinite, it's really cool how many important football events happened in a state where not a whole lot happens.

Back when the good teams were also good academic institutions.

0:34 Wait, my mom killed people with her shoulderpads???

Teddy Roosevelt was such a grown ass man.

back then as in today ladylike refers to panicking over something so trivial. for example "Gee Ulysses it is a just a ruptured brain, stop being ladylike"

Thank you SB Nation, very cool

"Imagine football without passing" *watches rugby*

Keep having this guy tell stories, his style of telling it is cool

Teddy Roosevelt was a handsome man.

It landed foul on the grass The players tried a forward pass With the Jester on the sidelines in a cast

The end killed me

Fun fact: Gen. Leonard Wood, who features in the Beef History video of Georgia-Georgia Tech, was a close friend of Teddy Roosevelt, serving as White House physician during his administration. To keep in shape, they enjoyed practicing a sport Wood picked up during his time in the Phillipines: Eskrima. Roosevelt ended up blind in one eye after taking a Baston to the head, a fact he concealed from everybody, to the point where it almost killed him on the River of Doubt expedition.

Teddy was just a great guy all around

2:36 Saint Louis University is actually in St. Louis CITY, which is that small spot of un-shaded map between the incorrectly-shaded St. Louis COUNTY and the river

You can damn well believe Teddy Roosevelt would have taken that glove off Thanos without spilling his drink.

I enjoyed this video, but it made me realize how much I miss Pretty Good...

It just hurt me to see them put Madison in the wrong county

You could do a whole video on the influence of Teddy Roosevelt on the game!

Also his grandson invented fast forward. Could you imagine u tube without it?

As a jets fan I feel his pain on a spiritual level

At 2:57 you messed up the City locations. Madison is supposed to be one county further south and so is Waukesha.

RIP Jimmy 2018

Now I wanna know how the game was played without the offense and defense separated.

What's old movie was it where they started using the foward pass and the coach said something like " its a trick play ...its never been tried in a real game"

I wish I could show teddy LT’s 2006 highlight reel. bro would be geekin, like look what you helped create

These videos are made really well, good job

St. Louis: where the forward pass was born in 1906, then perfected in 1999.

I knew Knute Rockne didnt invent the forward pass. Awesome digging into history!

The content on this channel is just so damn good.

Fellow Wisonsinite here, props for saying Waukesha right and not like WAH KEE SHAH. Also I think that new rules like this need to be put in place now that we know about CTE, the games been changed before for safety and it can be again.

I live 10 mins away from lake Beulah, never knew this. And Carroll college is now Carroll University filled with a lot of illinois kids. And you said Waukesha correct!!

Bradbury Robinson was born in the same hometown. Sweet!

Mike Imhoff is easily top-tier SB Nation cast.

One I actually already knew of. Thanks Drunk History and especially the DOPE Katie Nolan!

Great video!

Can you provide your sources please. Especially for catching on the run [the supposition is that ND revolutionised the forward pass by catching in stride which you discount in your version of events]. Clearly for TR to make the forward pass suggestion it must have been in the game in some form already. The only thing in Rugby that resembles a forward pass is a 'lineout'. Id like to know how a clearly illegal-pass in Rugby got adopted into the structure of the game. I'm very interested in reading your source material from a place of curiosity and scholarship.

Notre Dame was one of the first teams to use passes against their rival Army. Which led Notre Dame to a win

Where is the grainy footage of the old deathball from the 1900s??

I think the ending on this video was FAS. These are fun videos. Thanks!

4:40 this guy's humor/sadness is bar none

lmao @ the ending outfit change

Teddy Roosevelt was a homie even if some of his ideas were a bit out there

Great video. Thank you

Imagine SB Nation videos without US Army ads!

The Boi ist simply me favorite personality on youtube

and of course the Billikens continue to enjoy such football prominence today

The ending 😂

Not hard to imagine at around 75% of HS games. AAAA 3-peat PA State champs 2-for-3 passing in 2018 state championship!

Holy shit, Jimmy...

old but classic story

Damnit, Jimmy!

For rewinder do jeters walk off in his last game

But my mom was 12 in 1984. I guess times have changed

I have a couple of friends going to Carroll university

In the old days pretty much all of the guys at the Ivy League institutions, and frankly anywhere, were all expected to play sports. Heck, even RFK played football at Harvard.

Wow. I never knew this.

Imagine your team being in cloves in the most memed play of all time... Jets

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Washburn_vs._Fairmount_football_game Your statement about it being the first forward pass wasn't correct. Granted that wasn't a regular season game, but it was the first college one with legal (and 5 completed passes.) (There are a couple of other comments who suggest there were forward passes that did occur previously, but that weren't legal.)

You may want to check a map of Wisconsin next time, Madison and Waukesha are in the County south. Just saying as a Madison resident.

God Damn it Jimmy

I thought the Carlisle Indian School with their coach Pop Warner was the first to use the forward pass.

that ending tho

I was just thinking about the "invention" of the forward pass. Edit: The first rules for the forward pass were ridiculous!!!!

Please do a video about the origins of arena soccer (indoor soccer)

Yall put Waukesha in the wrong place on your map at 2:59. It's actually in the middle of the county one east and one south

How come rugby (either rugby or league) doesn't need this and is still mostly a running game?

What about Pop Warner and Carlisle

Did the new rules reduce deaths quickly or did it take til 1913+ to see appreciable difference in fatality rates?

1:24 That’s industrial-era masculinity for you. If it couldn’t be solved with anger or alcohol, you let it fester until it killed you.

Damn representing wisco

Try to imagine what Roosevelt could have accomplished, if he, too, had Twitter.

Sir Donald Bradman please. I'd really appreciate it. PS. You should've stuck with rugby. Imagine the world cup if you did.

90 years later, the U of Wisconsin would become dominant with their.....running game. Hmmm...

Go Badgers!

Life saving rules....now receivers are being set up to absolutely get killed regardless of a penalty or not 😂

How do you not reference John Heisman?!?

For the beef video, do Joakim Noah vs Lebron

Damn it Jimmy all you had to do was catch the ball.

0:58 - 1:05 Football Guy!!

Yale coach started the forward pass

Well smart pants how do you fix a broken skull

We need more early football crazyness like this. Please secret base more vids. How bout facemask? Paul Brown. My HIGHSCHOOL coach. I live 7 miles from Canton, OH NFL hall of fame.

It's ironic that so many colleges dropped football in favor of rugby, because rugby is arguably far more dangerous. In fact, many have argued that rugby has some of the most dangerous plays of any contact sport. And the best part? Rugby players don't even wear helmets, which exponentially increases the risk of serious and potentially fatal head injuries. Also, Madison is too far north and west on this map. It's located in Dane County, Wisconsin, but on the map appears to be in Columbia or Sauk County.

Dude football without passing = Hockey Power Play with no shots on net ( A Canucks Power Play is all passing )

I can imagine game without passing . It's called rugby

I would coach a team that never passed (lol)

Jack Schneider the GOAT. The first TD pass in football history

Teddy Roosevelt would be sad if he found out about all the rules we have protecting QBs these days. I also am sad, but no one cares about how I feel half as much as they care about how Teddy feels.

Hey, Wisconsin

Imagine football without Tom Brady! Lol

Outscored opponents 407-11. Oooookay.

who was the badgers?

Without passing the Seahawks would of ran the ball

Am I high, or did he put Madison on the incorrect spot on the map?

Teddy was a living testosterone

The narrator and creators of this video are shortchanging others their due share of history and giving TR more than he deserves...Roosevelt held a meeting on Oct 9th 1905 and the small group of representatives including Walter Camp left that meeting, paid it the lip service they felt they needed to claimed theyd clean the game up but instead once they actually spoke to each other about how to do so said "we do nothing its the refs job to enforce the rules."....The fact is Camp was in charge of the rules committee and he hated the forward pass...nothing began to give until another player a 19yr old named William Moore on playing for Union College vs NYU on November 25th 1905 was group tackled piled upon top of then lay forever motionless when the pile was cleared...He was pronounced dead at Fordham Hospital later that evening, autopsy stated the cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage...During the weeks that followed Moores death Harvards Coach William Reid was able to rally others, the heads of 60other colleges and form and alliance committed to getting things changed despite Walter Camps stubborn control and that likely meant removing him from power, replacing the old committee-then once he had done that he managed to get himself and a handful of others from that group into a secret meeting with some of the less obtuse members of Camps Committee behind Walter Camps back who explained that basically they could either get on board or those 60schools would pull out entirely and football might die...At around that same time Camp got exposeed by the media for major corruption...As head of that 1st rules committee which predated the ICAA hed been the final and ultimate judge/jury/executioner when it came to punishing other schools for breaking rules like paying athletes & whatnot yet at that same time he was also serving as the de facto treasurer and athletic director/coach at Yale and it turns out had been exploiting unable to resist the temptations which came with the inherent conflicts of interest those roles created by enabling him to tuck away over 100K of illicit funds for his players, which in 1905 was an absurd amt of money--one player had even gotten an all expense paid vacation to Cuba if memory serves...Once the reps met up behind Camps back they were essentailly able pull a double cross which by early 1906 led to the creation of the ICAA which essentially became the NCAA...Walter Camp hated the forward pass and TR didnt usher it in...Even when they 1st allowed it in 1906 it wasnt legal to throw the ball across the goal line, you had to throw it at least 5 yards to the right or left, and any incompletions resulted in a turnover... Harvards Coach William Reid led the internal resistance of college reps who took the destiny of footballs future out of the grasp of Yales hands, and Muckracking Journalist of the NY Evening Post Clarence Deming exposed Walter Camps corruption to the entire world in his expose...They are the people who ultimately saved football, helped insitute the forward pass and forced those changes to be made..