Pigskin Dispatch’s Darin Hayes and I cover the issue of snapping between the quarterback’s legs. This bit of trickery appeared in the early 1940s with the arrival of the Modern T formation. College teams and numerous high schools snapped between the legs here and there, and we are now seeing a reemergence of different run, pass, or punting plays off this tricky approach to the snap.
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