CACTUS JACK CURTICE’S UTAH PASS PLAY

CACTUS JACK CURTICE’S UTAH PASS PLAY. Back in the fifties and sixties I often read about Cactus Jack Curtice’s Utah Pass Play, which was described as a short pass followed by a lateral. I had never seen it. On New Year’s Eve I heard a shovel pass described as a Utah Pass Play, and I said something about what I understood to be the Utah Pass Play. And then last night I had the thrill of seeing a team from Idaho pull off the Utah Pass Play–a pass and then a lateral for a touchdown. (Boise State tied the score against Oklahoma with less than fifteen seconds left in regulation time.) However, nobody seems to call it the Utah Pass Play and Google doesn’t recognize the term. It was still a great thrill.