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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.
Led by Frazier, Southern Illinois became the first small school to win the National Invitation Tournament. Frazier earned All-America honors as a senior, and the Knicks made him their first-round pick (fifth overall) in the 1967 NBA Draft. He started slowly, averaging only 9.0 points in 1967-68.