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Definition of Passing game
1. Noun. (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate. "The coach sent in a passing play on third and long"
Category relationships: American Football, American Football Game
Generic synonyms: Football Play
Specialized synonyms: Aerial, Forward Pass, Lateral, Lateral Pass, Spot Pass
Derivative terms: Pass, Pass
Literary usage of Passing game
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Athletics and Football by Montague Shearman (1887)
"Whether the highly elaborated passing game pays or not it would be hard to decide :
critics ... Another drawback to the modern passing game is also evident, ..."
2. Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide ...: Foot Ball Rules as Recommended by by Walter Camp, National Collegiate Athletic Association (1915)
"Yale, Harvard, and Princeton all had Canadian players illustrating the Rugby
lateral passing game for them, but of these teams Yale alone stuck faithfully ..."
3. The Forward Pass in Football by Elmer Berry (1921)
"CHAPTER V. FUNDAMENTALS OF A SUCCESSFUL FORWARD passing game. THE forward pass
has now been a part of offensive football for fifteen years. ..."
4. The Book of Athletics by Paul Withington (1914)
"a kicking game will be developed, or the passing game may become the most effective
attack, and vice versa. As a result, we see in the papers that this or ..."
5. The "House" on Sport by Members of the London Stock Exchange by William Alphonse Morgan, Stock Exchange (London, England) (1898)
"Then came Vassal l's team, which produced such fine exponents of the passing game
as RS Kindersley, WM Tatham, and JG Walker. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"Experience has proved that the short passing game can be broken up by a determined
defence. For weak short passing nothing can be said. ..."
7. American Physical Education Review by American Physical Education Association (1920)
"There should be little dribbling, as the.passing game is always the quickest,
and the most sure to win points. Dribbling should be used only in an emergency ..."
8. Basket Ball and Indoor Baseball for Women by Helen Frost, Charles Digby Wardlaw (1920)
"I PASSING There are several factors in successful passing that must be remembered,
and as basket ball is two-thirds a passing game, too much attention ..."
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