College Football Freak Play: The "Tower Pass" or "Mutt and Jeff Score A Touchdown!"
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- This video discusses the origins and use of a unique football play known as the "Mutt and Jeff" play, popularized in the early 20th century. This play involved a tall player lifting a shorter player on his shoulders to catch a high forward pass, overcoming the height advantage of the opposing team's defense.
The term "Mutt and Jeff" originates from a popular comic strip of the time featuring two characters with contrasting heights, which became a cultural reference for mismatched pairs. The text traces the play's legality and use in football history, notably in a 1915 game between Marshall and West Virginia, where it was successfully executed.
Despite the play's initial success and legality, it was not widely adopted in football tactics, possibly
due to practical challenges in execution and the evolving rules of the game.
The author, Jon Johnston, expresses an interest in exploring more such "freak plays" in college football history on his channel, emphasizing the creative and sometimes contested origins of football strategies.
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More good stuff! Thank you! Yes, I would like to see more videos about trick plays or, as my friend says, "razzle-dazzle". Bring it on!
Since I was a freshman in high school in the fall of 1978 I always Wondered why the hook and ladder play we put in was called was called Tower Pass.
None of the coaches could ever explain it They were like that’s just what it’s called.
45 years later, I stumbled on this video and now have an answer.
Thank you
HAHAHHHA That's great! Glad I could be of use!
Excellent video...
Thanks!
Now I’m sure I saw this play used by the Three Stooges with Curley on top Jon! We used the old Statue of Liberty play in the sandlot days! Nice video as always. I wonder if the Chiefs will suit up Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce can carry her over the threshold ( I mean goal line) on a pass from Pat MaHomes!
Mutt and Jeff doesn't look so strange if you look at Rugby Union since they legalized lifting in the lineout. The lift and throw-in from the sideline look mechanically exactly like Mutt and Jeff. You can easily find UA-cams of these plays if you're not familiar with them. The play usually continues as a maul after the catcher returns to the ground.
That's what I thought of too
So glad I found your channel. As a WVU alumni, I loved learning that we ran up 92 points on Marshall back in 1915.
The concept behind this play makes me think of a lineout in rugby. I have no idea how far back lifting players into the air goes in that sport but it could have been the inspiration for this "tower pass".
The lift was illegal until about 20 years ago. Then again, if you go far enough back, there might've been a time it was practiced before it was made illegal. The rules used to be very simple at the throw-in (originally called a "throw-out" because the ball was being thrown out of touch): no formal line-out, just that any of your team could come up as far as the line-of-touch.
I like freak plays. Awesome research, Jon!
A Pass similar to this was one where bigger guy more tossed smaller guy in the air to catch the ball rather than on shoulders as more a safety issue if opposing team always seemed to take down recving players.
Nice video
I'm not sure if there is much to expound, but how about the drop kick? Of course everybody remembers that Doug Flute drop kicked extra point several years back.
Another great video! Maybe you can address other old illegal strategies like the flying wedge or the defensive pyramid to block kicks…
It wasn't long ago that NCAA finally outlawed such pyramiding -- I think it was this century! However, for many years previously they outlawed standing on a teammate's shoulders to block a kick, but the rule added that other pyramid formations were legal.
You should watch a modern rugby throw in. The opposing teams form two lines, and the ball should be thrown down the middle between the two lines. In recent years the throwing in team can usually claim the ball, by one player lifting another high into the air to catch the ball. The opposing team try to do the same, and so it becomes a battle of tactics, with the throwing in team usually winning, because they know what to expect.
Im guessing it was for the precursor of the Hail Mary.
On the epilogue - everyone wants to be an influencer (2015 this invaded our lexicon). It part of human nature ..... today there are influencers on social media that act like the CREDIT POLICE... "Hey I said that first" or posting "First" in the comment section
the irony of me posting this LOL
As a nebraska fan you certainly remember the fumble-rooski. What's the origin of that play? Is it something you can expound upon. My guess is that 84 orange bowl will be the last time that play will ever be of prominence. Perhaps it deserves a deeper drive.
It's going to be a while before I move beyond 1930... I am going to try to figure out how to obtain and use video and not get hit with copyright. You've probably already figured that out.
Fumblerooski was similar to the Hugo special; these were plays designed to exploit a loophole in the rules that made a play known, for instance, as the Providence Steamroller's suicide play, and as shown in the movie _M*A*S*H_ , illegal. Since 1880 there'd been a desire to outlaw plays where the ball would be "kept in scrimmage"; they wanted a definite exit of the ball from scrimmage to the backs. At the same time, the rules makers didn't want the offensive team hampered in picking up their own fumble. So the Hugo special and fumblerooski incorporated a deliberate fumble to take advantage of the loophole that'd been made for them. Not many seasons after that Orange Bowl game you mentioned, this loophole was closed by slightly different rule changes in NCAA and Federation rules. NCAA just outlawed a "planned loose ball play in the vicinity of the snapper", while the Federation made it that you could run such a play, but only by telling the other team you were going to do it on the upcoming snap.
@@CollegeFootballHistory I pretty much get hit with a claim on the revenue to most of my videos. I personally have no problems with it, I don't own the footage. You on the other hand fit into fair-use as you are adding insight. Does that matter to youtubes content id system? No, if you play a clip that the id system is searching for than you'll not be able to get revenue from the video. Uploading and scheduling does let you know before a video goes live. As you move into the 20's & 30's one thing I can assure you is none of the old newsreel & coaches films footage will be claimed. The reality is only TV footage is claimed. Oddly enough it's not the TV networks rather it's the conferences often, but sometimes it's the universities. I'm personally a little scared to get a pratreon since I do some NFL footage too, but you could do a patreon again because in reality you are fair use the same way your local news does not have to pay a license to show highlights. You never get a strike for content id stuff with sports highlight the worse case is your video gets blocked.
Another interesting question is how it got that name. The first -rooski play I ever heard of was the bummerooski, and for all I know it may have started the trend of "-rooski"-naming plays.
how about a video on hiding the ball under the shirt . i believe that carlisle may have used this
Although you verbally solicited comments from your next entry, commenting is turned off there, so I'll ask here: How did he collect on insurance if he was known to have killed himself? Was it something other than life insurance?
I am not sure why the comments were turned off, but I turned them back on.
Honestly..... I have no idea how they would have collected insurance. Never got that far. Maybe in 1930 they didn't care?
is this the same channel as corn nation??
I started the base history videos at Corn Nation, then moved them to a new channel focused solely on history. So... no, it's not the same channel anymore. It will be all history here. Or current events related to history at least.