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Jack Schneider

William John Schneider (May 16, 1883 – April 17, 1958) was an American college football player and coach. He played for Saint Louis University. He is credited with making the first legal reception of a forward pass in American football, thrown by Bradbury Robinson in a game at Carroll College on September 5, 1906. Interviewed in a Jacksonville, Florida hospital room in 1956, 50 years after the play, Schneider remembered what was also the first pass reception for touchdown in the game's history. "We were in the second half and the game was tied when Robinson called the pass. Actually Robinson was an end and I was a fullback. But Brad could throw the ball a long way, so we switched positions for that one play. "We were told to run after the snap and just keep … more »