A fact from Paul Veeder appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 June 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Yale All-American Paul Veeder has been credited with throwing the "first forward pass in a major game" and as an early innovator of the onside kick?
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RE: the innovation reported by the Times, Eddie Cochems wrote the following on the on-side kick in Spalding's How to Play Foot Ball (edited by Walter Camp) before the 1907 season:
"Instead of keeping the ball in the air it should be kicked to the ground as soon as the case will permit, since the moment it touches, the whole team is on-side. The longer the kicker can delay kicking the further down the field the team can get to either recover the ball themselves or form interference for the player who is supposed to recover..."
The innovation reported by the Times and attributed to Veeder had been described in "the" national football publication months earlier.
