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Show LATERAL PASS NOT POPULAR Beautiful Play to Watch, a Great Ground Gainer, but Not Tried Often This Season. The lateral pass hasn't been used very often this year. Many teams tried it out in 1915 and found it too dangerous. It is a beautiful play to watch, a great ground gainer when it is properly executed. But when it fails ruin ! The play is a sort of double forward pass, usually worked along the sidelines. side-lines. The center passes the ball to the quarterback and he flips it to one of his mates usually an end who has raced to the sidelines. Upon receiving re-ceiving the pass, Mr. End is supposed to hurl it forward to one of his associates, asso-ciates, who, by that time, if on schedule, sched-ule, should be 20 or 30 yards nearer to the opponent's goal line. In this triple handling of the ball, with the possibility of fumbling, hides the greatest danger. The next menace' men-ace' is in making the final pass. If the man elected to make the real run with the ball has reached his station and is "uncovered" by any of his foes, O, K. But the chances are that one of the enemy is lurking in that neighborhood, neighbor-hood, and when the final heave is made, said enemy leaps into the ozone, extracts therefrom the whirling whirl-ing ball and blooie, blooie! |
