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players each, established alternating possession and the center snap, and made touchdowns worth more points than kicking field goals. Camp also named the first All-America college team. Yale’s Amos Alonzo Stagg was on that team; later, as head coach at theUniversity of Chicago, Stagg was responsible for many football innovations , such as the huddle, the man in motion, uniform numbers, and much more. After the NFL was formed, head coaches such as the Bears’ Halas continued to mold the game. Halas was the first coach to study film of his opponents and have his players practice every day. At about the same time, the Packers’ Lambeau was the first head coach to make significant use of the forward pass as an offensive tactic, not just a desper- ation move. (Passing was not legal until 1906, and even then had to be from five yards behind the line of scrimmage; beginning in 1933, passes could be made from anywhere behind the line.) Those men must have known what they were doing because they remained head coach of their

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