Editing Forward pass (section)

===Knute Rockne===
[[File:RocknescoringonArmy.jpg|thumb|[[Knute Rockne]] of [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]] running away from [[Army Black Knights football|Army]] after a forward pass from [[Gus Dorais]], 1913]]

[[Knute Rockne]] and [[Gus Dorais]] worked on the pass while lifeguarding on a [[Lake Erie]] beach at [[Cedar Point]] in [[Sandusky, Ohio]], during the summer of 1913.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=1418742&type=Page2Story&imagesPrint=off |title= Football history passes away |access-date= 2008-06-11 |last= Caple |first= Jim |date= 2002-08-16 |publisher= ESPN }}</ref> That year, [[Jesse Harper]], [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]] head coach, also showed how the pass could be used by a smaller team to beat a bigger one, first utilizing it to defeat rival [[Army Black Knights football|Army]]. After it was used against a major school on a national stage in this game, the forward pass rapidly gained popularity.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/11.01.html Cross, Harry, "Inventing the Forward Pass", November 1, 1913, reprinted in "This Day in Sports"] ''The New York Times'', November 1, 2004</ref>

The [[1919 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|1919]] and [[1920 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|1920]] Notre Dame teams had [[George Gipp]], an ideal handler of the forward pass,<ref name=shape>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_RqQQHqQdAAC&pg=PA101|title=Shaping College Football|isbn=9780815608868|last1=Schmidt|first1=Raymond|date=2007-06-18|publisher=Syracuse University Press }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-W1JAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA662|title=Leslie's Weekly|work=google.com|year=1921}}</ref> who threw for 1,789 yards.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://und.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/allambios/nd-m-footbl-gipp.html | title=Notre Dame Archives: George Gipp | access-date=May 8, 2008 | archive-date=December 8, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208115643/http://und.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/allambios/nd-m-footbl-gipp.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[John Mohardt]] led the [[1921 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|1921 Notre Dame team]] to a 10–1 record with 781 rushing yards, 995 passing yards, 12 rushing touchdowns, and nine passing touchdowns.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Keith Marder |author2=Mark Spellen |author3=Jim Donovan |title=The Notre Dame Football Encyclopedia: The Ultimate Guide to America's Favorite College Team|publisher=Citadel Press|year=2001|isbn=0806521082|page=148}}</ref> [[Grantland Rice]] wrote that "Mohardt could throw the ball to within a foot or two of any given space" and noted that the 1921 team was the first at Notre Dame "to build its attack around a forward passing game, rather than use a forward passing game as a mere aid to the running game."<ref>{{cite news|title=Where The West Got The Jump: In Addition To Developing Strong Defense and Good Running Game, Has Built Up Forward Pass|author=Grantland Rice|publisher=American Golfer|date=December 3, 1921|url=http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/AmericanGolfer/1921/ag2424o.pdf|access-date=May 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062111/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/AmericanGolfer/1921/ag2424o.pdf|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Mohardt had both [[Eddie Anderson (American football coach)|Eddie Anderson]] and [[Roger Kiley]] at [[End (gridiron football)|end]] to receive his passes.