Fumblerooski

As Fumblerooski, also Rooski fumble or fumble - rooski, in American football a Trickspielzug is called, in which the quarterback places the ball on football after the handover by the Centre on the field and thus intentionally commits a so-called fumble. The attacking team without the ball deceives then a Laufspielzug to a side of the field before, during, the ball is blocked by an offensive player and is not visible to the defending team. As soon as the Defensive Player of the direction of the pretended turn follow, a player from the offensive line picks up the ball and runs towards the the fake play opposite free side of the field in order to achieve a larger space gain or a touchdown.

The first documented use of the Fumblerooski took place in 1933 during a high school game for the state championship in Texas. The idea of ​​this move is the coach John Heisman attributed after the Heisman Trophy is named for the best college football player. As one of the best known examples of the use of the Fumblerooski the Orange Bowl is valid from 1984 between the teams of the University of Nebraska- Lincoln and the University of Miami. With the score at 17-0 for the Miami Hurricanes, Tom Osborne, the coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers the game anyway, decided on this move, as a result, while Nebraska was shortened by a touchdown, but with 30:31 lost.

Since it is difficult to decide at a Fumblerooski for the referee if the ball over to the quarterback was a regular compliant, this Trickspielzug was the beginning of the 1960s in the professional field of the National Football League, in 1992 by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in college football and 2006 also in the high school football abolished by appropriate rule changes. Until his ban he was considered one of the most unusual and entertaining plays in American football. In the sports comedy Little Giants and The Longest Yard comes in appropriate scenes before each one Fumblerooski.

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