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==History== The history of who came up with the draw play is disputed. One idea is that it arose from necessity in the late 1940s when Packers linebacker [[Buckets Goldenberg]] noticed a different stance on plays dropping back from center to pass in the Bears T formation with quarterback [[Sid Luckman]] and thus adjusted to go with persistent [[Blitz (gridiron football)|blitz]] or not. Bears center [[Bulldog Turner]] supposedly suggested to do a fake dropback that would go for a run.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.footballarchaeology.com/p/todays-tidbit-the-origins-of-the | title=Today's Tidbit... The Origins of the Draw Play ($) }}</ref><ref>[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=football&ID=18 Goldenberg, Charles "Buckets"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192406/http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=football&ID=18 |date=2016-03-03 }}, Jews in Sports. Retrieved August 28, 2010.</ref> The draw was also allegedly invented by the [[Cleveland Browns]] during their years in the [[All-America Football Conference]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kjLspnsZS4UC|title=Encyclopedia of leadership: A-E|first1=George R.|last1=Goethals|first2=Georgia Jones|last2=Sorenson|first3=James MacGregor|last3=Burns|date=1 January 2004|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=9780761925972|via=Google Books}}</ref> A botched play, originally designed to be a pass play, caused [[quarterback]] [[Otto Graham]] to improvise a hand-off to [[fullback (gridiron football)|fullback]] [[Marion Motley]]. A surprised Motley, who had been expecting to block on the play, instead ran for a big gain. Coach [[Paul Brown]] noted the success of the improvised play and began to work it in as a regular play, quickly creating four different versions of it.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ciammiachella |first=Al |title=Top Cleveland Sports Figures, By the Numbers - #14 |url=http://www.theclevelandfan.com/component/content/article/7/10814 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221223745/http://www.theclevelandfan.com/component/content/article/7/10814 |archive-date=2014-02-21 |access-date=4 June 2013 |work=The Cleveland Fan.com}}</ref> By 1950, the term began appearing in print among various places such as Rice vs North Carolina in the [[1950 Cotton Bowl Classic]].
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