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The football season opened for most schools during the first week of October, and the impact of the forward pass was immediate: 1  On October 3, 1906, the Des Moines Daily News reported probably the first use of the long forward pass in the University of Missouri's 23â4 win over Kirksville Normal School.
A much rarer occurrence is the one-point safety, which can be scored by the offense on an extra point or two-point conversion attempt; those have occurred at least twice in NCAA Division I football since 1996, most recently at the 2013 Fiesta Bowl.