Sentence examples for passed backwards from inspiring English sources

From the moment the ball is passed backwards through the legs of the centre to the quarterback, 22 players are in constant motion trying to execute complex instructions, each intimately involved in the way the play will be resolved.

When we should have gone forwards we passed backwards and when we should have gone back we passed it to no-one.

Players will move the ball across the field by passing or kicking to teammates, but it is important to note that the ball can only be passed backwards.

I know that you run forwards but pass backwards and I know you get extra points for "converting" a try – though to me this conjures up an amusing religious image.

This suggest an inability to retain possession under pressure in midfield and defence, with British players taking the easier option of passing backwards for the keeper to kick long rather than shield the ball or pass to a team-mate who is marked, as David Pleat explained on Friday.

We've got a bad habit of passing backwards and not forwards and playing with two strikers helps that.

The posterior division pierces the fascia lata, passing backwards to supply the skin from the greater trochanter to the middle of the thigh (figure 1).

The ball will be passed sideways, backwards and forwards.

Days have now passed, going backwards and forward, east and west, north and south to try to find a way through the white blockade.

They had so few options in terms of playing the ball forward that they passed it backwards instead, and made errors that left them in trouble.

This meant that all too often the receiver of the forward pass was unable to face forward themselves and Australia's second pass would go backwards or sideways, allowing China time to recover and drop back even further.