The Forward Pass: How a Rule Change in 1906 Revolutionized Football Strategy FOREVER

The Forward Pass: How a Rule Change in 1906 Revolutionized Football Strategy FOREVER - History

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11 ай бұрын

The year 1906 in college football terms is best known as the year the forward pass was first legalized.
But it wasn't the only major change to college football. There were a slew. Nearly 30 rules changes
Including the onside kick rule, which made offensive players onside once the ball was kicked, so it was a punt with a free ball.
The major focus of these changes was to open up the game and to make the game less brutal. In this video, I'll discuss the changes in 1906, along with the reaction that coaches and sports writers had to the new rules and the new football.
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@cheshunt5597 6 ай бұрын

Great video. To be fair to coach Smith, I think what he was suggesting is football would be a game of punts because teams would rarely get the 10 yards needed for a new set of downs.

@ArthurSanford3706 5 ай бұрын

So modern Iowa football?

@goodmaro 5 ай бұрын

And if you look at the era 1906-11 (after which the 4th down was added), there was indeed an awful lot of punting. The field was 110 yards between the goal lines, and the rule making players of the kicking team eligible to recover when the ball hit the ground really encouraged kicking. There's a game from that time on KZfaq, and just as you'd predict, up to about midfield teams would commonly line up in deep punt formation to force the opponents to play deep. The quick kick was frequently resorted to too, until they outlawed kicking from less than 5 yards behind the line (adopted about the same time they did for passing), which stood for decades and nearly killed the quick kick.

@ilg2012 5 ай бұрын

There was some famous snow game where the two teams basically just punted it back and forth to each other. Couldn’t see the field.

@goodmaro 5 ай бұрын

Sorry, I got that last detail wrong. By 1913 the requirement to be at least 5 yards behind the line to kick was eliminated, although the same requirement for throwing a forward pass was kept until 1945 -- and might've lasted longer had they not seen the pros change it to in or any distance behind the neutral zone since 1933. I forgot when Federation rules started to allow passing from anywhere in or behind the neutral zone, but I think it was before NCAA; Fed wanted to encourage passing in the high school game so much that they abolished the limit of 1 forward pass per down, and didn't reinstate it until about 15 years ago.

@Xix1326 4 ай бұрын

I'm not a college football fan at all. I went to Allegheny College in Western PA. We'd win our conference every year, then get slaughtered by Ohio farmdudes in a bowl game (Oberlin, Ohio U, etc.). You know about AAA and AA levels. We were kinda level Z (it was called the President's Athletic League and included schools like Carnegie Melon, et al). So I never really got into the whole college vibe. But this is where football really began, so thank you for these fascinating vids.

@dba4292 4 ай бұрын

Why are you not a college football fan sir if you don't mind me asking?