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but they did help your reflexes and leaping ability. I do not believe that stoopball was played in the suburbs.
two-hand touCh was a form of football where one of us would play quarterback and the other team members would run patterns, albeit narrow ones if the game was played on a side street, as potential receiv- ers. The quarterback could be rushed after a count of “One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi.” A “tackle” was affected by placing two hands simultaneously on the ball carrier. Although traffic on the side streets was significantly lighter than it was on the avenues, there were automobiles that had to be contended with. If one were to be spot- ted, the first kid to see it would yell, “Car!!” and everyone would scatter to the side. Another automobile problem was that cars were usually parked along the sides of the portion of the street that we used as a field. This, too, was dealt with: A standard route called for a teammate who would be “going out” for a pass might be something such as “Fake left, then cut right, around the trunk of the Chevy.” Executed properly, this might send a defender crashing into an Impala and result in a comple- tion to a thereby unguarded receiver.
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