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Example sentences for "forward pass"

  • A forward pass, Dean to Durant, gained five yards, but the next play met with a stiff defense and Neil Durant determined that the time had come to attempt a drop kick.

  • At that point they tried a forward pass, and the ball, when it came to a stop, rested on the Ridgley thirty-five-yard line.

  • After that there was no more danger to our friends, and they kept the ball advancing by steady rushes, or, to rest his men, Dick would call for a forward pass.

  • An on-side kick netted a good gain, and then came a forward pass, which was not so successful.

  • Oh, we worked it by a forward pass," replied the young millionaire with a laugh.

  • Down the field they went, a forward pass netting a good gain and wonderfully saving the wind of the now almost exhausted team.

  • For a time it seemed that Boxer would score, as, after getting possession of the ball by means of a forward pass, they ripped off twenty yards, and followed that up by gathering in ten more by a smashing play through center.

  • The first play tried by Randall after this was a forward pass, and the ball went out of bounds.

  • Phil gave the signal for a forward pass, and it was well executed.

  • A forward pass, beautifully engineered by Tom, garnered eight more.

  • A forward pass, superbly engineered by Tom, gave them twelve yards.

  • They lined up as though for a kick, but the back who had dropped behind as if for that purpose, either tried a forward pass or made a quick dash around the ends.

  • Frank tried to elude him and to forward pass at the last instant but Mack had covered him too fast.

  • A forward pass, Harris to Edwards, gained eight, and Harris made it first down past left tackle.

  • From the thirteen yards a goal-from-field was more than a possibility, but the quarter was ambitious and wanted six points instead of three, and so plugged the ball across the field to a waiting end on a forward pass.

  • Two steps to the left, and he was poising it for a forward pass!

  • Worked a forward pass in the second quarter for about thirty yards, and smashed over for a touch-down.

  • So determined were the Harvard team to make a touchdown that they scorned to try a field goal, and depended on a forward pass to make the necessary distance.

  • But it was neither a fake nor a forward pass.

  • Frank played through three of these periods, and although he played well and did all of his duty, he never had a clear chance at a forward pass.

  • Catching the Harvard backs in a favorable position for the play, he snapped a forward pass to Armstrong who caught it and made the middle of the field on a dodging run, where he was brought down from behind.

  • A forward pass, Carmine to St. Clair, produced three of the required four and Martin slipped through between left guard and tackle for the rest.

  • A forward pass, Carmine to Compton, laid the ball on the forty-eight yards.

  • Holt got a forward pass and a Miter Hill chap plunged into him and just about knocked the breath out of him and he let go of the ball.

  • Later on another dash of humour was supplied when Carmine poised the ball for a forward pass only to discover that no one of his side was in position to take it.

  • Canterbury held finely in the shadow of her goal and Marvin's forward pass to Captain Miller went out at the twelve-yards.

  • The matter is this: I have devised a forward pass which if it isn't expected and is properly executed is practically certain to bring a touch-down to the team that works it.

  • We'll suppose our men have come down the field and are within an easy place-kick of the goal; we'll then make all preparations apparently for a goal from the field, and turn the play into a forward pass.

  • Should we report Bligh it is quite possible the whole thing would come out, and Gates' forward pass from a fake kick formation would become a matter of common knowledge.

  • This is equally true in fact for every man on the team, for every man on the team has something to do on a forward pass.

  • And then they wonder that the forward pass doesn't succeed and stigmatize it as a dangerous, treacherous and unsuccessful play!

  • Hillcrest caught the kick, carried the ball to their own forty yard line, tried a line plunge, a forward pass and an end run, then kicked.

  • With a tackler at his heels he hurled a forward pass to Dave Powers.

  • At that moment, while it was being returned from an unsuccessful attempt at a forward pass, in some strange manner, the ball came into contact with a Chehalis player's toe and went bouncing into the bleachers.

  • Rabbit had it and was preparing to throw a forward pass to Dave Powers, who had run around left end to receive it.


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