flying wedge
Americannoun
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Among other changes, they eliminated the flying wedge and allowed the forward pass, which made the game marginally safer.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2023
Mass momentum plays like the flying wedge were also common.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2020
By 1894 the flying wedge, the most dangerous football play of its time because it allowed the offensive team a running start before it crossed the line of scrimmage, was banned.
From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2012
The flying wedge, a blocking technique that is believed to have debuted in a Harvard-Yale game in 1892 but was banned soon after, is shown briefly in the opening seconds.
From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2012
He's still quiet, in the station house—You know old man Van Cleft, who owns sky-scrapers down town, don't you?—Well, he's the center of this flying wedge of excitement.
From The Voice on the Wire by Ball, Eustace Hale
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