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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.
He scored five touchdowns. The First Non-Running Back (1939). Other than Ki Aldrich, who was the first overall pick in the 1939 NFL draft, every player taken in the first eight years of the draft was a running back of some sort. Aldrich was an offensive linemanâa center to be exactâfrom Texas Christian University.elieve it or not, the first overall pick of the second annual NFL draft had a very similarly traveled road. Once again the Eagles had the first pick in the draft and took fullback Harrison Samuel âSamâ Francis from the University of Nebraska.